Bad Takes: Mad about high prices? Blame immigration hardliners like Trump and Abbott.

It’s not those fleeing violence or looking for work who are holding you back, it’s the richest 1% stoking division and lining their pockets.

by Kevin Sanchez September 21, 2022June 12, 2025

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Assclown Alert: Racing to the bottom with Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis

Anyone questioning whether Gov. Greg Abbott is chasing the 2024 Republican nomination need look no further than his despicable actions last week to see he’s all in.

by Sanford Nowlin September 20, 2022August 12, 2023

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U.S. Border Patrol deactivates its West Texas Twitter account after it retweets Stephen Miller

The now-deactivated account also liked a homophobic tweet about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

by Michael Karlis September 12, 2022August 17, 2023

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Some 3,300 Texans were members of the Oath Keepers, including cops, military and elected officials

Membership rolls for the extremist group tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection include eight elected officials and 33 members of law enforcement from Texas.

by Sanford Nowlin September 8, 2022April 11, 2025

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Beto O’Rourke confronts a formidable GOP firewall as he woos rural Texans

Despite its dwindling population, rural Texas has consistently helped protect GOP dominance in statewide races, even as Democratic support grows in the state’s populous metro centers and suburbs.

by Patrick Svitek, Carla Astudillo and Jayme Lozano, The Texas Tribune September 5, 2022May 8, 2025

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What brought down one Texas county’s entire elections department? It was something in the water.

Aggrieved anti-fluoride activists, low pay and an understaffed office eventually drove away all of Gillespie County’s election staff.

by Natalia Contreras, VoteBeat and The Texas Tribune August 29, 2022June 18, 2025

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Uvalde Shooting Lawsuit, Lady Gaga: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week

Families affected by the Uvalde mass shooting retained a California law firm to file a $27 billion lawsuit against law enforcement agencies and the manufacturer of the gunman’s assault rifle.

by San Antonio Current Staff August 26, 2022December 5, 2023

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As his district gets redder, Uvalde’s Republican congressman faces heat for votes on guns and gay marriage

Gonzales broke with his party to support sweeping gun safety legislation that passed after the city’s tragedy. He drew backlash from GOP activists again after he voted to protect same-sex marriage.

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune August 26, 2022August 17, 2023

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Biden administration can’t force Texas hospitals to provide emergency abortions, judge rules

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had said hospitals in states with abortion bans must perform emergency abortions in some instances.

by Jayme Lozano, The Texas Tribune August 24, 2022August 17, 2023

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Bad Takes: Sorry, Greg Abbott, it’s not a ‘Nixonian’ tragedy that presidents aren’t above the law

Where was Abbott’s concern for protecting dissent in 2020 when Trump sent federal officers to Portland to throw Black Lives Matter protesters in the back of unmarked vans?

by Kevin Sanchez August 24, 2022July 23, 2025

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New data pokes holes in Gov. Greg Abbott’s claim Biden administration isn’t stopping people at border

On the current current trajectory, officials are likely to apprehend more than 2 million border crossers by the end of the 2022 fiscal year, according to a New York Times analysis.

by Sanford Nowlin August 17, 2022September 18, 2024

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False allegations of voter fraud in 2020 led to increased threats against Texas election workers

A Texas elections administrator from Tarrant County told a U.S. House committee there was a social media call for his violent death, and election workers nationwide have reported more than 1,000 “hostile contacts” over the past year.

by Eric Neugenboren, The Texas Tribune August 16, 2022March 19, 2024

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Gov. Abbott tells D.C. mayor to ‘stop attacking Texas’ as migrant buses create humanitarian crisis

The mayor says she needs help from the National Guard to prevent a spiraling crisis created by Abbott and fellow Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona.

by Michael Karlis July 29, 2022September 28, 2023

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Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas ridiculed after claiming his gender pronoun is ‘kiss my ass’

Twitter users called out Cruz for his apparently insatiable appetite for kissing Donald Trump’s ass.

by Sanford Nowlin July 24, 2022April 2, 2025

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Texas charity that backs Trump’s stolen-election lie has deep ties to Ken Paxton

The Texas attorney general would be the one to hold True the Vote accountable on allegations that it swindled a $2.5 million donor. But the nonprofit’s founder has been a friend and an ally.

by Cassandra Jaramillo, Reveal July 21, 2022January 21, 2025

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Hungary’s right-wing authoritarian leader will speak at CPAC conference in Dallas next month

Although described as a dictator by academics, Viktor Orban’s leadership has received praise from U.S. conservatives.

by Michael Karlis July 11, 2022August 17, 2023

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Supreme Court rules Biden administration can end “remain in Mexico” policy, sending case back to a Texas court

The Trump administration created the Migrant Protection Protocols, also called ‘remain in Mexico,’ in 2019 before the Biden administration canceled it in 2021. The ruling sends the case back to a Texas federal court.

by Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune June 30, 2022April 21, 2025

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Bad Takes: The Texas Republican Party’s new platform is a shitshow of hate and petty grievances

Here are 10 of the most antiquated and nefarious objectives in the new Texas GOP party platform.

by Kevin Sanchez June 21, 2022January 21, 2025

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Report: 27 Republican primary winners in Texas continue spout Trump’s lies about a stolen election

The analysis cautions that many of the GOP election deniers now running for office are “overt in their intention” to change the outcome of future political contests.

by Sanford Nowlin June 14, 2022April 4, 2025