Uvalde families protest to demand action from the district
For over 48 hours, families of victims of the Uvalde massacre protested outside the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District headquarters to call for an investigation into the campus police response at Robb Elementary on May 24. Since the killings, which left...
Ken Paxton Literally runs to avoid Subpoena in Abortion Case
According to court filings, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home on Monday when a process server attempted to serve him with a subpoena to testify in an abortion case. The subpoena was to testify against eight abortion funds fighting the state's...
Voting While Innocent: Dallas County Must Do Better
As an elected leader, our highest duty, and what we take an oath to do, is to protect the constitutional rights and freedoms of our constituents. One of the most fundamental of these is the right to vote. Most Texans agree that voting should be safe, easy, and...
Charting Greg Abbott’s Charter School Affinity
As the campaign for governor churns into its final weeks, Greg Abbott has made a huge point of championing charter schools around the state. Charter schools are funded by the government but operated independently of the state. For conservatives in Texas, charter...
Ken Paxton sticks his nose in Trump’s classified documents suit
Indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton embarrassed Texas once again after filing a brief against the Department of Justice requesting a neutral special master in a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump after 300 classified documents were found at his...
Revelations From The Lawsuit Filed By Migrants Against DeSantis
Yesterday, Alianza Americas filed a class action complaint with several of the migrants who were flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week as part of a political stunt by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The lawsuit provides some new insight into how migrants were...
Beto announces 15-campus College Tour
On Wednesday, Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke announced a college tour to register as many college students as possible before the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline. The 15-stop college tour will begin on Sept. 26 at the University of Texas in...
Bexar County Sheriff launches investigation into Florida for transporting migrants
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said his department is investigating Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s plan after the governor recruited a woman to fraudulently convince 50 asylum seekers to leave San Antonio and travel from Florida to Massachusetts. According to a...
Janet Dudding On Her Race For Comptroller
Quietly, an accountant is running one of the most important statewide races that, while under-the-radar, is hugely impactful to all Texans. The Signal spoke with Janet Dudding in between campaign stops in her race for comptroller. Our first question immediately...
A Democrat As Attorney General Could Accomplish A Lot
With the election less than eight weeks away, several Texas statewide candidates find themselves locked in tight, single-digit races. And perhaps the best opportunity for Democrats to flip a seat could accomplish a lot. The Signal spoke with Rochelle Garza in between...
In Houston, Beto motivates Latino voters
700 Houstonians supported Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’ Rourke at Settegast Park in the Second Ward of Houston to rally around Latino voters and their top ballot issues of the November election. According to a recent poll by the Texas Politics Project,...
Op-Ed: Many Afghans and Ukrainians Arriving Will Be Stuck in Entry-Level Jobs. They Deserve More.
Before fleeing the Taliban in 2016, I’d spent six years as a translator, conducting high-level military missions for American forces and government officials. I’d also worked for six years in the USAID funded project as an administrative executive and had both a...
Out-of-state LLC, Coulda Been Worse launch anti-Abbott television ads
Coulda Been Worse LLC aired a television advertisement against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday, highlighting some of Texas’ most disastrous moments under his watch as governor. The ad listed everything that has happened in the state under Abbott’s leadership,...
In Houston, VP Harris slams Texas lawmakers’ abortion and voting laws, calls on faith leaders to take action
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Houston on Thursday, pushing people of faith to take action to defend democracy, and slammed Texas lawmakers’ abortion and voting policies. In front of a crowd of 2,000 attendees at the annual National Baptist Convention,...
Op-Ed: For Harvey Recovery, We Must Do Better
“Those walls are already dry . . . .” Five years ago, I heard this repeatedly on the doorsteps of seniors I was visiting after Harvey hit when I asked them what they were going to do about their floodwater-soiled walls and sheetrock. In the immediate aftermath...