Tag Archives: Texas GOP
From GOP Moderate to Democratic Lege Hopeful to Trump Campaigner
Feeling abandoned by both the GOP and Democrats, former State Board of Education member George Clayton found a home in the Trump campaign....Read More
Sid Miller, Shotgazi and the End of the Texas GOP
Sid Miller's offering a grad course in buffoonery, and Ken Paxton's not far behind. Is it the end of the Texas GOP? Maybe, but things can always get worse....Read More
High on the Hog
Texas' Republican ag commissioner spent $55,000 outfitting his office with taxidermy and other bits of Wild West ephemera.
The Republican spent $55,000 outfitting his office with western-themed decor and various iterations of taxidermied wildlife....Read More
Supreme Court Candidate Rick Green Struggling to Repay Government Loan
The city of Gonzalez loaned Rick Green nearly a half-million dollars, but the Texas Supreme Court hopeful hasn't been able to repay the taxpayers....Read More
Texas GOP Convention to Include First-Ever LGBT Booth
The Republican Party of Texas’ 2016 convention is expected to include a booth sponsored by an LGBT group for the first time in state party history....Read More
The Cruz-ification of the GOP
Ted Cruz's speeches haven't changed, but his audience sure has.
Where once Cruz was a little-noticed frequenter of the Texas tea party circuit, he’s done more than any other Republican to set the tone in Congress during Ob...Read More
The Sweet Futility of Texas House Primary Races
At a dessert banquet for Jonathan Stickland, tea party funders convene for their biannual fleecing.
Texas House elections are fun to write about, and they’re crazy as hell. But their primary benefit seems to be their ability to get consultants paid....Read More
Ted Cruz is Right. There’s No War on Women.
The draconian policies favored by the GOP are better described as a war on the American family.
Indeed, if you want a home for policies that restrict legal abortion, that would ban birth control, that decry parental leave as unnecessary, that deride breast...Read More
The New ‘Quiet Pessimism’ of Climate Change Denial
Texas conservatives may finally have to admit that a bevy of lawsuits can't stop the Clean Power Plan before it goes into effect in 2018.
While conferees still spent time trying to debunk established science and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened the conference touting his lawsuit against th...Read More
