Dallas Voters Showed Up, Rubber-Stamped Lege’s Agenda Tuesday

Another election night is over in Texas, but don’t expect to feel it, at least not for awhile. Voters in Dallas and around the state gave the legislature a big thumbs-up Tuesday night, overwhelmingly signing off on nine of the 10 amendments to the Texas Constitution on offer. Both of…

This Is What Happens When You Write About Louie Gohmert in 2019

Over the last couple of weeks, a certain U.S. representative from East Texas has popped up a couple of times in your friendly neighborhood news vertical. It’s been with good reason, too. He’s stormed a secure facility at the U.S. Capitol, threatened civil war over the potential impeachment of President…

Beto O’Rourke Quits the Presidential Race

Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is done running for president. Friday afternoon, the former U.S. representative from El Paso, stuck polling in the low single digits, said that his campaign couldn’t win the Democratic nomination due to a lack of resources. O’Rourke did not endorse one of his Democratic competitors,…

Conservative Activists Plot to Save Texas GOP With One Weird Trick

Fresh from having pushed House Speaker Dennis Bonnen halfway out the door, Texas conservative activists are looking to rerun the 2019 legislative session in which the speaker played such a big part. Wednesday afternoon in Dallas, representatives from Empower Texans, Texas Right to Life and the Texas Eagle Forum, among…

Texas’ Louie Gohmert Helps Lead America’s Dumb Revolution

Something stupid happened at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. That’s all you need to know, to know that East Texas U.S. House Rep. Louie Gohmert was right in the middle of it. Gohmert, along with several fellow acolytes of President Donald Trump, decided that the best way for them to…

New Report Shows Woeful State of Women’s Health in Texas Cities

In a state where everyone’s blind, the one-eyed cities are kings, or something like that. That’s the big takeaway from a new study from the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Texas’ cities, the only places in the state where women can actually seek out a legal abortion, lag behind cities…

Problems Plague Rollout of Police Oversight Office

Until Friday morning, anyone looking to report police misconduct to Dallas’ new Office of Community Police Oversight would have had a hard time figuring out how. Instructions on a Dallas police website for submitting complaints led callers to a disconnected number. A link to the office responsible for collecting complaints…