On Sunday, virtually every news organization in America reported that the Texas Supreme Court had upheld Governor Greg Abbott’s mask ban. No, the Court only ruled on a request for an emergency stay of an appellate court ruling that would have allowed schools to make masks mandatory. The New York Times reported, The Texas State … Read more
Above: Media attention is what this prima donna diva Senator craves the most. Update to Joe Manchin Is The New Poster Boy For Appeasement Of The Enemies Of Democracy and The Senate Filibuster And The Death of American Democracy By Appeasement. Texas legislative Democrats fled the state of Texas to block GQP Jim Crow 2.0 … Read more
Late on Sunday night, on a Memorial Day weekend when most Americans were distracted, the Texas Lege tried to pass the most anti-democratic, Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression bill in the nation. EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder. (Texas is already the most difficult state in the country to vote, it is … Read more
Texas historically has been the worst among the 50 states in voter turnout because of long-standing Jim Crow systematic voter disenfranchisement and voter suppression. But something truly remarkable has been happening in Texas this year that could mark a sea change in American politics, if not this year, then in the very near future. The … Read more
Just when you think Donald Trump can not stoop any lower than he has these last four years, he finds a way. In April, he encouraged his followers to “liberate” states that had reasonable and scientifically proven methods to curtail the Coronavirus. Some of those fanatics may have been encouraged by Trump’s words and actually … Read more