Tag: Royce West
Led by MJ Hegar, Texas Democrats field formidable ticket in runoffs
Hegar to headline Democratic ticket Powered by historic turnout, Texas Democrats on Tuesday finally reached closure on a slew of contested primaries ...The complicity of Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Michael McCaul in the mass arrests of ...
On the early morning of July 23, 1999, in Tulia, Texas, nearly 33 percent of the city’s Black male residents were arrested. ...Reminder: Early voting in Texas has begun
Monday, June 29, marks the first day of early voting in Texas for this year’s primary runoff elections. That means Texans can ...Opal Lee And The Campaign To Make Juneteenth A National Holiday
For decades Opal Lee has been marching to make Juneteenth a national holiday. While the 93-year-old garnered attention in her local home ...Texas Democrats raked in $1.5 million from grassroots donors during convention
The Texas Democratic Party announced Monday that the party brought home $1.5 million in grassroots donations from the convention last week, breaking ...Questions over police reform, COVID-19 dominate Texas U.S. Senate debate
Texas’ two Democratic U.S. Senate candidates faced off Saturday evening, discussing hot-button issues like police reform and the federal response to the ...An Update on the Texas Senate Race
If the Democrats want to achieve anything after taking back the White House they’ll need to take back the Senate as well. ...TDP hosts virtual Democratic Senate debate ahead of July runoff
Texas Democrats announced today that they will be hosting a virtual Senate primary debate featuring candidates MJ Hegar and Royce West. This ...Cornyn and Cruz could improve the coronavirus relief bill. Don’t bet on it.
Over the weekend, House lawmakers passed a bipartisan coronavirus relief bill that serves as the first good step to patching up the ...Beto O’Rourke has some advice for Texas’ U.S. Senate candidates
In a soon-to-be-released podcast interview on Thursday with the Signal, former El Paso Congressman and presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke said he’s still ...Election Night was tough for left-wing Democrats in Texas
As the final votes are being counted, Super Tuesday proved to be a difficult night for some of the bolder progressives running ...11:20pm: Early results…Biden closes gap with Sanders
With a third of polling locations reporting, former Vice President Joe Biden is closing the gap with Sen. Bernie Sanders in Texas. ...