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Matt Rinaldi’s conservative pilgrim’s progress: `We’re winning the battles...
Good morning Austin: Earlier this week I did a First Reading on my interview with Rep. Jason Villalba, R-Dallas. Villalba, who ended the regular session in kind of funk, felt rejuvenated in the...
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No sweat if Gov. Abbott falls shy of special session Shangri-La. The base is...
Good morning Austin: Late last week, in an update on the progress of Gov. Greg Abbott’s 20-item agenda as the special session entered its final days, I wrote about the governor’s “attempts to...
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Make America white nationalist again. On Charlottesville and Donald Trump.
Harold Newchurch raises the Rebel Flag outside Griffin Funeral Home site of the Civil War Confederate Prison Camp on MLK in Chicago. Good day Austin: For the better part of two years around the turn of...
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For Donald Trump and Greg Abbott, Harvey may be their finest hour
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 29: U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he walks with first lady Melania Trump prior to their Marine One departure from the White House August 29, 2017 in...
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Astros pummel Harvey, but did father really know best?
Good day Austin: You got to admire the grit of Matt Harvey, the Mets pitcher, taking the mound against the Astros Saturday in the first game back at Minute Maid Park since that other Harvey, the...
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Why Abbott’s empathy, so evident in Harvey, does not extend to those who may...
Texas Greg Abbott visited the Austin ISD Delco Center Saturday evening August 26, 2017 which has been opened as an evacuee shelter for those fleeing their homes from Hurricane Harvey and met Shirelle...
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‘We ain’t doing diddly squat,’ Ted Cruz tells fellow Republicans
Good morning Austin: A week ago Sunday, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn were interviewed by Evan Smith at the Texas Tribune Festival, and despite Smith’s admonition, a small but significant number of...
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Democrat Jeffrey Payne launches his `outside the box’ candidacy for governor.
Good Monday Austin: On Saturday night, Jeffrey Payne kicked off his campaign for governor of Texas in his hometown of Dallas. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhFF_yJjqo&w=883&h=497]...
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Why the Texas GOP won’t be able to replace Ken Paxton on the ballot even if...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrives at a news conference at the Price Daniels Building Wednesday May 25, 2016, where he announced he will sue to challenge President Obama’s transgender bathroom...
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Abbott calls on Texas delegation to get a `stiff spine’ and demand more...
Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a briefing about Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts at the Texas – FEMA Joint Field Office on Tuesday September 26, 2017. JAY JANNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN Good morning...
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`Berniecrat with a Panama hat,’ Tom Wakely launches campaign against...
Good Monday Austin: Last Monday’s First Reading was headlined, Democrat Jeffrey Payne launches his `outside the box’ candidacy for governor. Today, I am writing about Tom Wakely, who on Saturday, a...
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The Cain Mutiny: On the shouting down of Briscoe Cain
Good day Austin: In the middle of the day on Monday, Oct. 9, Briscoe Cain, a 32-year-old first-term state representative from Harris County, member of the Freedom Caucus and the most conservative...
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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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