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After losing big on Super Tuesday, Texas progressives hope to salvage some victories in July
By Alex Samuels, July 9, 2020; Patrick Svitek contributed to this report. Judging from March, the ideological left wing of the Democratic Party in Texas should be inconsolable. After months of high hopes, the faction ran into a centrist buzz saw in the March 3 primary. Joe Biden practically locked up the Democratic presidential nomination,
Austin’s homeless residents consider Abbott’s camp helpful but say his tweets still stigmatize them
Homeless Austin residents say life at the shelter in the southeast Austin neighborhood of Montopolis is an improvement for them — but still an incomplete solution to life without steady shelter. Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune As the governor latches on to violent incidents to criticize Austin city leaders, people experiencing homelessness say he’s painting them with
Analysis: In 2020’s Texas legislative elections, competition is tricky business
Special interest groups and their lobbyists don't like to campaign against incumbent legislators, for fear they'll suffer if those incumbents return for another session. That "friendly incumbent" policy has spread to lawmakers themselves.
Analysis: Fort Bend’s special election was just the first battle of the 2020 war between Texas Democrats and Republicans
The Republican elation and Democratic misery over this week's special election in Fort Bend County is just the first wave of the 2020 election year. They have dozens of battles ahead of them.
Republican Gary Gates handily beats Democrat Eliz Markowitz in Texas House District 28 runoff
Gary Gates greets the crowd during his election night watch party at Gallery Furniture in Richmond on Tuesday. Annie Mulligan for The Texas Tribune Democrats had hoped the race would build momentum for their push to take control of the Texas House in November. The Houston-area contest garnered national attention and overshadowed two other special election
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to proceed with immigration rules
The rules establish new criteria for who can be considered to be dependent on the U.S. government for benefits and thus ineligible for green cards and a path to U.S. citizenship.
Sen. Ted Cruz launches daily podcast about Trump impeachment trial
By Sam Manas January 23, 2020 Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz launched a podcast this week, saying he’ll use it to air his daily musings about the historic Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Cruz he is a juror along with the other members of the U.S. Senate. His first episode of the podcast,
Obama cut women’s health money in Texas for the state’s targeting of Planned Parenthood. Trump just restored it.
By Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Jan. 22, 2020 “Obama cut women’s health money in Texas for the state’s targeting of Planned Parenthood. Trump just restored it.” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide
How Iran’s military outsources its cyberthreat forces
Dorothy Denning, Naval Postgraduate School In the wake of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general and Iran’s retaliatory missile strike, should the U.S. be concerned about the cyberthreat from Iran? Already, pro-Iranian hackers have defaced several U.S. websites to protest the killing of General Qassem Soleimani. One group wrote “This is only a
Meet the Texas-based church security business training worshippers to fight back in mass shootings
A member of a church security team fires at a target at a shooting range in Krugerville. Various church security teams are training for active shooter situations with the National Organization of Church Security and Safety Management. Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson for The Texas Tribune Texas has seen two mass shootings in churches in three years, which has
New campaign finance reports help crystallize fight for state House majority
Democrats are effectively nine seats away from the majority in the Texas House, a major prize ahead of the 2021 redistricting process. Austin Price for The Texas Tribune The reports, which were due Wednesday, provide the first fundraising checkpoint since the candidate fields were finalized last month. By Patrick Svitek , The Texas Tribune. The fight
Do you plan to vote in Texas’ November elections? The time to register is now
People stand in line to vote for the primaries at the Flawn Academic Center on the University of Texas campus on March 1, 2016. Image credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune Texans hoping to participate in the Nov. 5 election have until Oct. 7 to register to vote. By LELVIA LIMÓN, The Texas Tribune.
