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Bad Takes: Taking voting rights from people convicted of felonies is a form of ballot suppression

Disenfranchisement laws date back to the Jim Crow era, and they primarily targeted Black people, according to experts.

by Kevin Sanchez June 11, 2024June 13, 2025

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Bad Takes: 50-year old movie classic Blazing Saddles skewers contemporary targets

As in the movie, corrupt politicians and their corporate backers employ the tried-and-true tactic of sowing racial discord to divide and conquer.

by Kevin Sanchez June 6, 2024January 2, 2025

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Bad Takes: Texas Republicans sure love to invoke Orwell without understanding his work

The extreme new platform the Texas GOP adopted at its San Antonio convention is about anything but freedom and democracy.

by Kevin Sanchez June 4, 2024January 26, 2025

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Bad Takes: It’s time for all of us to take potential environmental calamity seriously

Elected officials, including those in San Antonio, must pay attention to the air quality and climate threats faced by their constituents.

by Kevin Sanchez April 19, 2024May 17, 2025

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Bad Takes: Sylvia Gonzalez’s Supreme Court fight with Castle Hills is one worth waging

The grandmother arrested by the San Antonio suburb is fighting to ensure she and others can criticize government officials without fear of retribution.

by Kevin Sanchez April 4, 2024July 27, 2025

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Bad Takes: Leaders should dump Trump over his disastrous immigration plan

Dennis Nixon, chair of Laredo-based International Bancshares Corp., criticized the border wall and Operation Lone Star yet still backs Trump.

by Kevin Sanchez March 8, 2024July 23, 2025

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Bad Takes: Texas AG Ken Paxton’s anti-cannabis crusade is the opposite of small government

Pursuing low-level cannabis charges is a waste of time and money, and Texas’ top law-enforcement official should recognize that.

by Kevin Sanchez February 22, 2024April 1, 2025

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Bad Takes: San Antonio City Council should grow a backbone and discuss a ceasefire resolution

Few circumstances are more frustrating than when elected leaders can’t bring themselves to state what is ethically obvious.

by Kevin Sanchez February 7, 2024September 26, 2024

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Bad Takes: Stop treating homelessness and road deaths like unsolvable problems

Genuine freedom means taking care that we can all flourish together.

by Kevin Sanchez January 29, 2024March 12, 2025

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Bad Takes: Journalists have flinched from telling the ugly truth about Texas’ new immigration bill

How can the state consider it ethical to imprison someone for 20 years on an immigration law violation?

by Kevin Sanchez November 14, 2023August 7, 2024

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Bad Takes: San Antonio leaders shouldn’t shy from discussing Middle East conflict

There’s room for free discussion. Let’s continue to listen to each other instead of walking away.

by Kevin Sanchez November 3, 2023March 12, 2025

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Attention, conservatives: militaristic pushback against migration never ends well

Gov. Greg Abbott has wasted billions on Operation Lone Star, his constitutionally dubious effort to make the lives of migrants a living hell.

by Kevin Sanchez October 20, 2023March 5, 2024

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Bad Takes: COVID disinformation won’t die, but people who ignore scientific facts just might

Beware of people, even popular podcasters, who downplay a virus that’s the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease.

by Kevin Sanchez October 6, 2023April 6, 2025

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Bad Takes: Recent shootings of San Antonio cops should be wake-up call about guns

As local leaders point fingers about the cause of the shootings, we should take a serious look at Texas’ lax firearms laws.

by Kevin Sanchez September 20, 2023March 26, 2025

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Bad Takes: The Texas GOP’s book banning has nothing to do with protecting kids

This book-ratings regime has little to do with protecting schoolchildren from sexual trauma and predation.

by Kevin Sanchez August 24, 2023April 19, 2025

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Bad Takes: Jason Aldean’s claims of patriotism and victimhood both ring hollow

Fans of Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ defend it as an endorsement of ‘law and order.’ But aren’t there constitutional protections afforded to symbolic speech?

by Kevin Sanchez August 8, 2023September 19, 2024

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Bad Takes: Worker deaths show that climate change is real and demands immediate action

Upwards of 20,000 adult deaths in the U.S. from 2008 to 2017 were linked to extreme heat.

by Kevin Sanchez July 12, 2023February 15, 2025

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Bad Takes: Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine claims aren’t just bullshit, they’re dangerous bullshit

During a recent installment of his show, Joe Rogan permitted Robert Kennedy’s busted sewer main’s-worth of hazardous falsehoods to gush out, un-fact-checked.

by Kevin Sanchez July 1, 2023May 16, 2025