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Tatted trailblazer M.J. Hegar announces Texas-sized challenge to sleepy Sen. John Cornyn
The Big Story Military veteran Mary Jennings “M.J.” Hegar of Round Rock, Tex. announced Tuesday she’s running for the U.S. Senate. Hegar, ...April 23, 2019“THIS IS THE END OF MY PRESIDENCY. I’M F*CKED.”
Here’s a tease of Texas Signal’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe! Trump says he’s totally f*ucked. In the Mueller report released yesterday, there were ...April 19, 2019Texas Progressive Executive Council previews 2020 election strategy
Houston-based Texas Progressive Executive Council, or TPEC, unveiled its election strategy on Wednesday to a standing-room only crowd of the region’s top ...April 18, 2019There’s never been a better time to be a Texas Democrat
Progressives made huge gains last year up and down the ballot in the Lone Star State. Arch-conservative Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick won ...April 9, 2019A conversation with Amanda Edwards, Houston City Councilwoman
Photo by Aswad Walker/Defender NetworkApril 11, 2019In Texas, Trump blames environmental activists for executive order easing oil and gas permitting ...
As more polling showed Donald Trump’s support tanking in key parts of Texas, the President flew into Houston on Wednesday to announce ...April 10, 2019What to look for at today’s Democratic presidential Q&A
First, a big Texas welcome to the eight Democratic presidential candidates in Houston today. They will be attending the She the People ...April 24, 2019Texas House approves sweeping school finance reform
Photo by Emree Weaver/Texas Tribune What a difference a session of the Texas Legislature makes. Supporters of public education in the Lone ...April 4, 2019Cartoonish Week in Politics
April 18, 2019Old, white Republican men versus the 20+ million rest of us
The liberal coasts of New York and San Francisco can have terrible intellectual snootiness when it comes to Texas. They sometimes look ...April 18, 2019The last decade has pretty much sucked for Dems in the Texas House. That’s changing.
After the 2008 election, the blue team had narrowed the Republican advantage in the 150-member House of Representatives to just a two-seat ...April 15, 2019Wrongly convicted Alfred Brown of Houston lost 12 years of his life in prison. But ...
Photo: Billy Smith II, Chronicle On Monday, State District Judge George Powell said he will make a decision in two weeks concerning ...April 15, 2019
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