Texas GOP
High on the Hog
Texas' Republican ag commissioner spent $55,000 outfitting his office with taxidermy and other bits of Wild West ephemera.
The Cruz-ification of the GOP
Ted Cruz's speeches haven't changed, but his audience sure has.
The Sweet Futility of Texas House Primary Races
At a dessert banquet for Jonathan Stickland, tea party funders convene for their biannual fleecing.
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.
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.
Lawmakers Said Medicaid Has No Future, Set Out To Prove It
Honestly, is there anyone less qualified to manage Medicaid than the Texas Legislature?
In Houston, Ted Cruz Faults Obama for Cop Killings
Campaigning Cruz tries to rev up the Houston business class on crime, abortion and the impending loss of the entire Eastern Seaboard.