11.5.18 “There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There’s nothing at all to worry about.” Considering Texas’s usual abysmal voter-turnout rates, it’s astonishing that our state this past week led the country in first-time voter numbers, with more than 200K new voters voting already. We lead the next-largest new-voter turnout, in California, by …
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10/29/18 “Trump’s condoning of political violence is part of a sustained pattern of attack on a free press” Voting news! Early voter turnout levels have been gratifying—first-day voter turnout for early voting resulted in long lines all day across Texas—in Travis County it nearly tripled from 2014; in Dallas more than tripled from 2010 and …
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10/22/18 “I guarantee you, if the GOP thinks that black people are voting for them, they will be making sure that your vote counts.” Let’s start with this stunning news: Democratic candidates for Congress have raised a record $1 billion. Although our own GOP-led Congress doesn’t seem to have the moral fiber to speak out against …
10/15/18 “An open and free society” Leadership of the People Donald may be unwilling to take action against Saudi Arabia for its killing of journalist Jamal Kashhoggi, but as is becoming the norm, others are stepping up to fill the leadership void: Western corporations with pending deals and discussions with the Saudis are pulling out as …
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10/8/18 “In our view that testimony was partisan, and not judicious, and inconsistent with what we expect from a Justice of the Supreme Court” Kavanaugh was confirmed. Congress clearly never intended to consider the FBI investigation results—McConnell promised the nomination hearing before the report was even received, and denied Democrats’ request for a briefing on the …
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10/1/18 “This nomination is no longer in the best interests of the country” Ugh, Kavanaugh. The American Bar Association, a group of Mormon women, the dean of Yale Law School, and finally—finally—the U.S. Senate determined that serious, multiple, credible allegations of sexual abuse of Brett Kavanaugh must be investigated by the FBI before he can be confirmed. (The American Bar …
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9/24/18 “This is sickening.” Political nonprofits can no longer hide the names of their donors, thanks to a federal court ruling the Supreme Court declined to consider overturning. The billionaire who created the National Debt Clock is disgusted with Donald and the GOP’s running up of our national debt by more than $1.5 trillion in the …
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9/17/18 “How can you be so self-centered and try to distort the truth so much? It’s mind boggling.” Oh, look, another GOP candidate has ties to white nationalist groups—this one the Republican candidate for governor, Ron DeSantis, who made four appearances at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe their freedom …
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9/10/18 Barack is back, babies. And just in time, too. Bob Woodward’s new book (he who helped expose Nixon’s Watergate scandal) shows that Donald is even more unhinged than we knew, with White House staffers scrambling to adapt to his ignorance, temper, and breaches of democracy. One day later, you may have heard that the NYTimes published a scathing …
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9/03/2018 Some fun new categories this week, starting with… Elections Florida’s GOP governor nominee Ron DeSantis, who has been bleating loudly that he didn’t mean anything racist by telling supporters not to “monkey this up” when speaking of his African American opponent, negated his own denials Thursday by being outed as a moderator and administrator for …
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