The Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization American Oversight is still locked in a court battle with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a lawsuit requesting that they release certain public records, including communications with gun advocacy groups and others related to the U.S. Capitol riot. American…
The Texas-based conspiracy theorist has called on his viewers to cough up more dough, insisting that his legal battles are all “made up.”
It’s no revelation that rental costs are up across Dallas/Fort Worth. Rent has swelled over the last year – and it has continued to do so even as real estate prices have seen a gradual decrease. According to a new report by Apartment List, Plano has the most expensive average…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ought to know how the law works. He’s the state’s top cop, has faced an indictment or two of his own and recently had his latest run-in with a service processor, from whom he reportedly fled. But on Monday, he bought a series of billboards…
Operation Lone Star has run up a $4 billion tab, but it’s also racking up quite the corpus of criticism.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would pardon everyone who was convicted under federal law for simple marijuana possession, calling on governors to do the same. “No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” the president said in a statement, adding that imprisoning…
On Tuesday, a Mexican citizen was shot and killed while being held in Border Patrol’s custody, prompting calls for a transparent investigation into the incident. The deadly shooting took place at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station in El Paso, officials said in a press release. The incident came a week…
The way federal authorities tell it, Everett Wayne Copelin had a long list of people he intended to kill: migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Black people, Jews, federal agents and supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke. In early September, the FBI learned of Copelin’s threats, which he made under…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, faced off in their first – and likely only – gubernatorial debate on Friday night. The televised debate took place at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. Ahead of the event, news broke that Abbott’s campaign had…
Moderators of the subreddit r/PoliticalHumor have a bone to pick with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and boy are they picking it. In protest of a new Texas law, HB 20, that requires social media companies to host views the companies consider objectionable, Reddit user BlatantConservative wrote that moderators now require…
Since he launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promoted the controversial border crackdown as a state-led effort to do the federal government’s job. With November’s midterm elections almost here, the governor is promoting the border operation more and more. Operation Lone Star has proven…
Only a few days after Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential election, Oath Keepers militia founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes was already on InfoWars warning that the “deep state” was trying to “illegitimately” remove then-President Donald Trump. Rhodes laid out his militia’s plans in an interview with host Alex…
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni spent much of her political life on the farthest fringe of the radical right. Although she now insists fascism is a thing of the past, in the early 1990s she joined the Youth Front of the Italian Social Movement, a party founded by a former chief of…
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican representing Texas’ 10th congressional district, went on Fox Friday to claim that abortion isn’t an issue most voters care about. When Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked McCaul about the importance of the abortion debate ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, he gave a…
On Thursday, a Hunt County jury unanimously found Shaun Lucas, a former police officer who shot and killed a Black man named Jonathan Price in October 2020, not guilty of murder. Lucas, who was fired from the Wolfe City Police Department following the incident, admitted to shooting 31-year-old Price, but…
A year and a half since COVID-19 first hit and shuttered much of the world, some hardline Texas conservatives are still spreading wild conspiracy theories about the vaccine. In a Twitter post on Thursday, the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog media outlet Right Wing Watch published a video of Texas-based doctor, right-wing…
When the Bexar County sheriff held a livestream press conference on Monday, he didn’t hold back from letting everyone know he was angry. In fact, he said he was “furious” over a stunt last week that saw dozens of migrants recruited from Texas and shipped to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. On…
To hear the state’s top cop tell it, he backs the blue harder than the blue’s ever been backed. But on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took a different tack. A day after the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced it was investigating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant plane to…
Dozens of state lawmakers have called on DSHS to publish a report on the number of pregnancy-related deaths in Texas.
Texas leads the country when it comes to banning books in schools, according to a new report published by a free speech advocacy group. PEN America’s new report found that Texas ranked first in the number of titles yanked from school bookshelves across several districts, citing “political pressure” from state…
The Anti-Defamation League says anti-Semitic incidents hit an all-time high in 2021.
If you’re anything like us, you went outside last weekend, felt the cool breeze on your skin, went for a long walk and relished the belated demise of the long, brutal summer. After all, it was one of the hottest summers on record in North Texas. Who wouldn’t want to…
