Texas, the second-biggest state in the nation, is a tantalizing brass ring for Democrats. It has not voted for a Democratic President since Jimmy Carter in 1976 and has not elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994. Its heavy Latino population makes it one of five ...read more
The Donald Trump/Ted Cruz rally we saw on Monday night in Houston would have been inconceivable two years ago. But it happened, and so did the apex of Ted Cruz’s agonizingly long public humiliation.At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cruz took a gamble. Like Mitt Romney, ...read more
Yesterday, NBC News ran a story that threatened to send fervent election-watchers into a downward spiral. Using data provided by TargetSmart, reporter Adam Edelman and the NBC News Data Analytics Lab said that Republicans were outpacing Democrats in early voting, which is now ...read more
Lost in last week's roar of Kavanaugh news was a warning sign of the blue wave coming to annihilate Republicans a little over a month from now:The Texas voter rolls have grown to 15.6 million people, a new record, and a jump of 1.6 million since the last time Texas held a midterm ...read more
There are only three areas of bipartisan consensus in America anymore: the sun is hot, water is wet, and Ted Cruz is a terrible person. Democrats have hated him since he was elected Senator in 2012, and Republicans haven't been much nicer - as Lindsey Graham said, "if you killed ...read more
The fight for control of the Senate is still up in the air with Democrats gaining ground every day that Trump and the GOP continue to be the most corrupt ruling administration in American history. Considering the Senate should have been an easy win for Republicans, this is bad ...read more
The Trump Administration, not satisfied with forming a denaturalization task force, throwing Latino citizens out of the military, and putting the children of immigrants in cages, is now attempting to revoke the citizenship of Latinos born on the border of Mexico and Texas, a ...read more
In an extraordinary story that illustrates the insanity of modern capitalism, big oil companies are asking the federal government to protect them from the disastrous effects of climate change. To help protect local residents, sensitive ecosystems and infrastructure in the wake of ...read more
Ever since Donald Trump declared his candidacy roughly three years ago, we've all been witnesses to a seemingly endless dark ride of tragedy and destruction waged by a little man with little regard for anything but his own approval ratings and wealth. It's impossible to list ...read more