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Joe Straus for governor? `I don’t think so.’
[facebook url="https://www.facebook.com/statesman/videos/10156056879994208/" /] Good day Austin: On the eve of the special session I wrote a First Reading, For Texas GOP, the special session may be...
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Austin’s Garry Brown announces for governor: `Help me make sure that Hell...
Good morning Austin: On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, Garry Brown of Austin announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018. It was a simple affair on Brown’s front lawn in...
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Amid the sleeping giants, is there a place in Texas politics for the Milder...
Andrew White, the son of former Gov. Mark White Good Monday Austin: In the last couple of weeks — nine months into the Age of Trump – two Milder White Guys stepped forward to indicate a desire to run...
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Maureen Dowd: On Trump’s Fantasia, Cruz’s Thunderdome and 41’s affection for...
Good morning Austin: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and her Times colleague, Carl Hulse, are coming to Austin Nov. 18 for an appearance at the Long Center. Monday night, I spoke with Dowd....
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`Let Her Speak:’ Inside the screenplay of the Wendy Davis (Sandra Bullock)...
Good Monday Austin: That, above, would be from the title page of the 133-page screenplay by Mario Correa, an accomplished Chilean-born, Brooklyn-based playwright and television and film writer, about...
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On the Straus censure: How an ideological fidget spinner became the engine of...
Good day Austin: Last June, James Dickey, then the Travis County Republican Party chairman, was elected chair of the Texas Republican Party by a single vote, defeating Rick Figueroa, who had been...
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Knocked for a Lupe: Morning News, Chronicle, Houston GLBT Caucus snub Valdez...
(Mark Matson for American-Statesman) Democratic gubernatorial candidates Lupe Valdez (L) and Andrew White participated in a question and answer session Saturday afternoon at the AFL-CIO convention on...
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`My son, who is autistic, was robbed by three black thugs.’ Lisa Luby Ryan on...
Challenger Lisa Luby Ryan points a hand gun at state Rep. Jason Villalba while debating gun control. Good morning Austin: Yesterday, seventeen people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Florida...
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Lupe Valdez talks Latinx activists into backing the White guy for governor
(Photo by Ken Herman) Good Monday Austin: As of today, thanks largely to the forces of political inertia, Lupe Valdez remains the favorite to win the May 22 runoff and become the Democratic candidate...
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In Salman v. Stickland, a celebration of diversity in Euless is tested
Good Monday Austin: On Saturday, one week to the day after he was narrowly elected to the City Council in the little Tarrant County city of Euless – population about 55,000 and half white – Salman...
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At Maverick PAC he founded, Ted Cruz finds himself amid a younger Hurd’s herd...
Good Monday Austin: I spent Friday and Saturday night at the Maverick PAC Mavericks Conference. Traveling back from Dallas, I arrived just in time Friday night. There were protesters outside Brazos...
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Texas GOP to choose between abolishing abortion and `prudent pro-life...
Wesley Thomas, left, and Bradley Pierce of Abolish Abortion Texas Good morning Austin: I am in San Antonio for the Texas Republican Convention. The general sessions don’t begin until Thursday, but,...
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Getting interesting late: GOP Platform Committee restores Cook censure,...
Good day Austin (and San Antonio): A little before 9 last night, I left my dual posting at the side-by-side ballrooms where the Texas GOP Convention Platform/Resolutions and the Legislative...
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Texas GOP: Abolish abortion, property taxes, taxpayer-funded lobbying and gun...
Good Friday Austin: The Texas Republican Convention’s Platform and Resolutions Committee and the Legislative Priorities Committee finished their work late last night with some drama. The submission of...
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Asche is to ashes, but is James Dickey a man the Texas GOP can trust?
Good day Austin and San Antonio: About two hours into yesterday’s afternoon session of the Texas Republican Convention, in the lead-up to the vote for chairman, the battle between James Dickey, the...
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Run Hard: Blue Action Democrats rally against `naysayers’ and `conventional...
Good Monday Austin: While other people yesterday were doing whatever people do on a summer Sunday afternoon in Austin, I spent several hours with a couple of hundred Democrats at a fundraiser for Blue...
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`The blue wave has a physics all its own.’ On electoralizing the Indivisible...
Good Monday Austin: Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, the married couple, co-founders and co-executive directors of Indivisible, the network of grassroots organization founded to resist the Trump...
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Remembering the Alamo … and remembering the rest of Texas history
Dan chandler, from Plano, attends a State Board of Education meeting at the William B. Travis Building, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. (Stephen Spillman / for American-Statesman) Good day Austin: Last...
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The risks of cool: Is Beto skating on thin ice with his old DWI?
Good Friday Austin. Forty-four years ago, at the age of 20, I drove drunk and got in a minor accident. I have no memory of what happened. All I know is I could have killed someone. I could have...
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Yes he did! Retired game warden Pete Flores poaches Democratic Senate seat!
Good day Austin: Well, at least they didn’t chant, Sí, se puede. That would have been overkill, gloating, rubbing it in. But exultant Republicans did spontaneously chant the English version of the...
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