Tag Archives: Texas GOP
State Leaders on Atrocious Child Welfare System: Don’t Blame Us!
It’s as if state lawmakers owned an amusement park with a roller coaster that chucks a few riders to their deaths every month: We should fix that, they say periodically.
Texas state officials and legislators refuse to fund the state's child welfare system, then try to shift the blame when it fails....Read More
Loon Star State: ‘More Lipstick!’
In October's Loon Star State, award-winning cartoonist Ben Sargent imagines the Texas GOP's mighty struggle to doll up Donald Trump....Read More
Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’
The state's 4,300-member chamber of commerce has passed a resolution against "bathroom bills" that prevent transgender Texans from using certain restrooms....Read More
The Trumpist Revolution Rambles Its Way to Dallas
What do Texas Republicans want? To ride Donald Trump's coattails! When do they want it? Now! An incoherent Donald gave them the opportunity in Dallas....Read More
The Texas Miracle #8: The Death of the Texas GOP
With leadership in disarray — and an underwhelming state convention — is the Texas GOP gasping its last?
This week on the podcast: We'll find out whether the Texas GOP is gasping its last and look at the hoops Texans must jump through to access legal abortion....Read More
The Texas Miracle #7: The Sound of Secession
From the Texas GOP convention, we go to the floor for a debate over secession and seek answers to that mind-melding question: Why would anyone support Donald Trump?
From the Texas GOP convention, we go to the floor for a debate over secession, and seek answers to the question: Why would Texas Republicans support Trump?...Read More
Texas GOP Flirts With Secession
Texas secessionists said that federal overreach on abortion and transgender rights meant that the time is ripe for Texas to vote to leave the union....Read More
Proposed GOP Platform Calls for Trans Bathroom Ban, Constitutional Convention
A secession plank didn't make it into the document, but could make a reappearance on the floor Friday.
The GOP's running with Gov. Greg Abbott's call for a constitutional convention, and has doubled down on anti-LGBTQ planks in this year's proposed platform....Read More
Can the Even-Further-Right Stage a Trump-Style Takeover of the Texas GOP Leadership?
The presidential race is the marquee contest at the Republican Party of Texas convention this year, but another race really says more about where Texas Republic...Read More