Why Wendy Davis Didn’t Want Hillary Clinton to Attend Dem Convention
The Texas Republican convention last month featured a number of GOPers from across the country, including Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Sen. Deb Fischer of...
View ArticleLosing Ground
Among the many questions Texas Democrats are asking each other in the aftermath of 2014’s electoral slaughter, few are more pointed than this one: What’s going to happen to Battleground Texas? The...
View ArticleCan a Socialist Sway Texas Democrats?
There’s one question Democrats face as they head into the 2016 presidential election. How should they feel about Hillary Clinton? The coalition Barack Obama built happily came out to vote in his two...
View ArticleWhat Wendy Davis Would’ve Done Differently
It’s been almost a year since the 2014 election put an end to what had started out a period of unusual optimism for Texas Democrats, one that began with Wendy Davis taking to the Senate floor in...
View ArticleHow To Turn Texas Blue
Mary Beth Rogers ran the last successful Democratic campaign for the Texas governor’s office. The year was 1990 and the candidate was Ann Richards. Four years later, Rogers ran Richards’ re-election...
View ArticleThe Sweet Futility of Texas House Primary Races
Christopher HooksA chocolate fountain took pride of place at a January fundraiser for tea party Texas representative Jonathan Stickland, who’s had a rough month after his primary opponent unearthed...
View ArticleThe Interview: Elliott Naishtat
Texas Observer: You took office the same week as Governor Ann Richards. Now, you’re serving under some of the nation’s toughest tea party leadership. What’s that been like? Elliott Naishtat: When I...
View ArticleWhy Wendy Davis Didn’t Want Hillary Clinton to Attend Dem Convention
The Texas Republican convention last month featured a number of GOPers from across the country, including Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Sen. Deb Fischer of...
View ArticleLosing Ground
Among the many questions Texas Democrats are asking each other in the aftermath of 2014’s electoral slaughter, few are more pointed than this one: What’s going to happen to Battleground Texas? The...
View ArticleCan a Socialist Sway Texas Democrats?
There’s one question Democrats face as they head into the 2016 presidential election. How should they feel about Hillary Clinton? The coalition Barack Obama built happily came out to vote in his two...
View ArticleWhat Wendy Davis Would’ve Done Differently
It’s been almost a year since the 2014 election put an end to what had started out as a period of unusual optimism for Texas Democrats, one that began with Wendy Davis taking to the Senate floor in...
View ArticleHow To Turn Texas Blue
Mary Beth Rogers ran the last successful Democratic campaign for the Texas governor’s office. The year was 1990 and the candidate was Ann Richards. Four years later, Rogers ran Richards’ re-election...
View ArticleThe Sweet Futility of Texas House Primary Races
Christopher HooksA chocolate fountain took pride of place at a January fundraiser for tea party Texas representative Jonathan Stickland, who’s had a rough month after his primary opponent unearthed...
View ArticleThe Interview: Elliott Naishtat
Texas Observer: You took office the same week as Governor Ann Richards. Now, you’re serving under some of the nation’s toughest tea party leadership. What’s that been like? Elliott Naishtat: When I...
View ArticleFrom GOP Moderate to Democratic Lege Hopeful to Trump Campaigner
George Clayton/FacebookGeorge Clayton, the GOP official who flipped parties to run for the Texas Legislature, now the Dem who joined the Trump campaign. From 2011 to 2012, George Clayton was a...
View ArticleCan GOP Failures Get the Texas Democratic Party Started?
Collin CountyTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s mug shot, after the Republican was indicted by a grand jury on three felony counts of securities fraud. This has been a bad couple of months for Texas...
View Article2016 Texas Democratic Convention Liveblog: Decisions, Disarray and (Super)...
6:35 p.m. We have adjournment! FTR, the only thing the media is voting on at the #tdp16 is this: https://t.co/AUjIuVVuSb #txlege — Alexa Garcia-Ditta (@agarciaditta) June 18, 2016 #tdp16 Brings to mind...
View ArticleMeet the First Out Trans Woman to Win a Texas Primary
Jenifer Rene Pool/FacebookHoustonite Jenifer Rene Pool. At the Texas Democratic Convention’s LGBT caucus this morning, I caught up with Jenifer Rene Pool, the first transgender Texan to win a...
View ArticleCastros: Texas Will Be ‘Competitive’ in 2016 Election
Alexa Garcia-DittaThe Castro brothers told reporters at the Texas Democratic Convention that Texas would be ‘competitive’ in November. At the Texas Democratic Convention Friday afternoon, HUD...
View ArticleQ&A: What Houston Can Do About All Those Floods
James Cargas campaignHouston energy attorney James Cargas Founder of Oilpatch Democrats James Cargas, former member of the Clinton Administration’s council on sustainable development and current...
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