A Brief History Of Pride In Texas

A Brief History Of Pride In Texas

This was originally posted two years ago. Now, as attacks on LGBTQ+ Texans have intensified to dangerous and frightening levels from the rightwing, we wanted to re-share the long and mighty history of Pride in the Lone Star State. With many cities kicking off their...

DACA Back In The Courts

DACA Back In The Courts

The long and winding legal wrangling over DACA continues tomorrow in Texas. However, it's most notable antagonist, Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t be there after he was impeached and suspended from duties. On June 1, Judge Andrew Hanen will hear oral arguments in...

Taral Patel Launches Bid for Fort Bend County Commissioner

Taral Patel Launches Bid for Fort Bend County Commissioner

Much has been said about how rapidly Texas is changing, and perhaps no county reflects that better than Fort Bend. The county neighboring Harris has been among the fastest growing in the nation for years, and for more than a decade it has gradually become younger,...

Op-Ed: Put Texas Kids First

Op-Ed: Put Texas Kids First

There are more than 73 million children under 18 living in the U.S. and over seven million of them call Texas home. The biennial Texas Kids Count report brings together data across five categories of child well-being including health, education, economic...

Sine Die: Impeachment Edition

Sine Die: Impeachment Edition

Today may be Memorial Day 2023, but for the brave souls fighting some of the most extreme policies in the nation at the Texas capitol, it also serves as something of a holiday in its own right: Sine Die, the final day of the legislative session at which point there is...

Has time run out for Ken Paxton?

Has time run out for Ken Paxton?

No matter what else we can say about Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General has a peculiar set of survival skills. Despite indictments, sex scandals, and federal investigations, Paxton has continued to get re-elected to one of the top posts in Texas government,...

Update: Texas is still a battleground state

Update: Texas is still a battleground state

Colin Allred has only officially been a candidate for United States Senate against Ted Cruz for a few weeks, but to say the North Texas congressman has made the most of that time would be a wild understatement. Allred made a massive splash in the race against Ted Cruz...

Mifepristone Case Lands Back At Fifth Circuit

Mifepristone Case Lands Back At Fifth Circuit

Yesterday an all-Republican-appointed three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the mifepristone case, and the likely outcome appears bleak. Last year, a rightwing organization and several anti-choice OB-GYN’s sued the FDA in Amarillo to reverse...

Safe Democrat Splits From Party on Key Votes

Safe Democrat Splits From Party on Key Votes

State Representative Shawn Thierry has been censured after voting with Republicans on multiple issues including on anti-LGBTQ+ priorities bills. In our last legislative roundup we noted that Texas Republicans would offer crumbs of power to any Democrat willing to...

Rick Perry’s Long Strange Trip

Rick Perry’s Long Strange Trip

In the run-up to the 1988 presidential election, future Texas Governor Rick Perry assessed the field of candidates and boldly threw his support behind the candidate he felt most closely matched his values. Though he would later claim he voted for a fellow Texan,...