The tragic tale of medical torture deliberately being inflicted on a U.S. citizen by Republicans in Texas is gruesome, but it also reveals that abortion ban exemptions are a very thin sham meant to appease on the surface only. They aren’t meant to actually be used.
Lawyers for Kate Cox have said that she has left the state to get the abortion that she needs for her health and well-being.
The office of Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who just appeared in court on securities fraud charges, immediately put a stop to a judge’s injunction against Texas’ inhumane abortion law, making it very clear that the goal of the abortion ban is to punish and intimidate, rather than to save lives.
In Greg Abbott’s Republican Texas, public schools sent kids home with a DNA kit so their parents could identify them after a mass shooting or other emergency.
New voter registration is skyrocketing in Texas as young Democrats are registering after the overturn of Roe.
CNN anchors Victor Blackwell and Alisyn Camerota grilled state representative James White about why Texas can act fast on abortion, but not on protecting ten-year-olds from school shootings.
As Texans were freezing during a power outage, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered power price increases.
Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas Representative who ran one of the closest Senate races in Texas history against (but ultimately losing to) the incumbent Ted Cruz, announced that his campaign has raised more than $7.2 million since he announced his run for governor. All of that money was raised in the month-and-a-half since he decided…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that the state will appeal a ruling from U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman that blocked its controversial abortion restrictions. “We disagree with the Court’s decision and have already taken steps to immediately appeal it to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said…
The family of Texas school shooting suspect Timothy George Simkins says he was often bulli,” that he was robbed on at least one occasion, and that he was afraid to go to school. “He was scared; he was afraid,†said Carol Harrison Lafayette, who is acting as a spokesperson for the family. “It wasn’t just…
The Dallas Morning News reports that there have been multiple injuries as a result of a mass shooting at a Texas high school. The shooting occurred at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas, which has about 1,900 students. Police responded to a shooting call about 9 a.m. The school was placed on lockdown. “This terrible…
The Texas legislature has approved a law that bars social media companies from banning users for their “political viewpoints,” a victory for Republicans who have accused them of stifling conservative thought on social media platforms. “Social media websites have become our modern-day public square,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican. “They are a place…
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said he opposes the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling not to block a Texas abortion ban. The Supreme Court had voted not to block a Texas law that went into effect at the beginning of the month that prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six…
The city of Portland, Oregon will vote on an emergency resolution banning trade with the state of Texas in response to the state’s abortion law. The law prohibits virtually all abortions after a heartbeat is detected, which is typically after six weeks of pregnancy. It also essentially deputizes citizens by empowering them to file lawsuits…
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke out after the state of Texas effectively outlawed abortion by banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. “Let’s be clear about what just happened in Texas: The second-largest state in America has effectively banned abortions,” she wrote on Twitter. “We can’t rely on the courts to protect our rights….
Texas is the biggest red state in the county. And because of that, many of its residents have refused to get inoculated against COVID-19. Governor Greg Abbott certainly hasn’t helped matters. Like, Ron DeSantis, his counterpart in Florida, Abbott is more focused on making the virus a culture war issue rather than actually doing anything…
Dallas and Bexar Counties are in limbo after the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted lower court rulings that allowed local government agencies and school districts to implement mask mandates, which defy an order from Governor Greg Abbott (R). A hearing on the temporary injunction is expected today. “Sunday’s ruling affects Dallas and Bexar Counties, which…
It turns out Governor Greg Abbott (T-Texas) is not just aiding and giving comfort to Delta, but he is doing so with your tax dollars.
Houston’s Harris Health Systems President and CEO Dr. Esmaeil Porsa warned that hospitals are facing “disaster” amid the strain of caring for a surge of Covid-19 patients as the highly infectious Delta variant continues to spread. “My hospitals are full … What is concerning is the rate by which our Covid-positive patients are increasing,†Porsa…
Governor Greg Abbott has cared much more about fighting the COVID culture war than about keeping people safe. Like Ron DeSantis, the Texas lawmaker has banned mask mandates in his state. Abbott’s office said in a statement, “Governor Abbott has been clear that we must rely on personal responsibility, not government mandates. Every Texan has…
Donald Trump needs something to do. Thanks to an investigation by New York State, his business career is in shambles. He’d love to be president again, but has to wait 3 more years to even run. And in order to be the candidate in 2024, Trump has to keep his control over the Republican party….
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R) told Fox News that the Democrats who fled the state to block a bill that would have tightened voter restrictions in the GOP-controlled state. Patrick expressed confidence that the matter would be resolved soon. “They can’t hold out forever. They have families back home. They have jobs back home….
While CNN and MSNBC make attempts at having GOP lawmakers on as guests, it is a different story at Fox News. Fox News is a channel that focuses on entertainment rather than any real kind of political debate. Why have a guest on that challenges you, when you can just plow forward with the right-wing…
The Texas House has authorized arrest warrants for the Democrats who left the state to block a bill that would have tightened voter restrictions in the GOP-controlled state. “Members, the sergeant-at-arms and the officers appointed by him are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purpose of securing and…
While most presidents spend their first year out of office under the radar, that hasn’t been the case for Donald Trump. The former president, desperate for adulation, is again holding political rallies. On Wednesday, Trump appeared in Texas as Greg Abbott announced additions to the state’s border wall. The governor’s team made sure to shield…
Texas State Representative Briscoe Cain (R) claimed that a Texas “voter reform” bill doesn’t discriminate against non-whites despite concerns from Democrats and voting rights advocates that it does. “Democrats say the bill discourages minorities from voting. What is your argument against that?” “Fox and Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked Cain during the program. “Well, had…
Speaking to CNN, Texas State Representative Jessica González (D) called on Democrats and the Biden administration to pass comprehensive electoral reform to combat voter suppression efforts. Addressing recent voter suppression efforts in Texas by the Republican Party and speaking after Democrats walked off the Texas House floor to block the passage of a restrictive voting…
Speaking to CNN, Michael Wood, a Republican candidate for a Texas House seat who lost the race after running on an anti-Donald Trump platform, decried the direction the GOP has gone in, calling it a “sad commentary” on American politics that so many members of the party have embraced conspiracy theories, namely the former president’s…
Jared Patterson, a Republican Texas state representative, has been resoundingly criticized after he promoted a measure that makes it easier for individuals to carry guns in the wake of a mass shooting in Austin. Last week, the Texas House approved House Bill 1927, which will allow anyone at least 21-years-old to carry a handgun without a…
Early this morning, the Texas Senate approved Senate Bill 7, new voting restrictions in the state. The final version of the bill is not yet online for review but the original bill “banned overnight early voting hours and drive-thru early voting, while restricting how election officials handle mail voting,” according to NBC News. In a…
This year saw both Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were elected to congress. Prior to that, Republican voters had elected people like Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar and Marsha Blackburn to office. So one can forgive Dan Rodimer for deciding that GOP voters will vote for pretty much anyone as long as they have an…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is attempting to withhold all messages he sent or received during the Capitol riot on January 6. The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to review government records; several Texas news outlets have requested copies of his internal communications only to be rebuffed. Paxton’s refusal to cooperate…
Since Joe Biden has taken office, many more vaccination shots are getting into the arms of Americans. Over the last week, the country has averaged over 2 million vaccinations each day. The US is getting very close to getting back to normal, but it is not there yet. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said earlier this…
Last week, the state of Texas experienced massive power outages due to a winter storm. The leaders of the state, many of them Republicans, didn’t seem to be interested in helping their constituents. Ted Cruz famously took off for Cancun. Little was heard from Senator John Cornyn and Governor Greg Abbott mostly seemed interested in…
When a state faces a weather disaster, it is a good time for elected politicians to show leadership. Sure, there’s not much they can do to stop a blizzard or a hurricane, but they can get on the phone and secure help for their constituents. Ted Cruz decided against doing any of this. The Texas…
Donald Trump Jr. tried to defend Ted Cruz by blaming “Democrat governors” when the governor of Texas is a Republican.
President Biden has sent generators, water, blankets, and meals to Texas, as Republicans sat around waiting for the weather to warm up.
Donald Trump has run out of almost all legal options to contest the 2020 election. The members of his legal team, at this point, have either been fired or have contracted COVID-19. So with the lawsuits going so poorly, Trump has decided to try his hand with the Supreme Court. The highest court in the…
President Donald Trump continued to push false claims about the November 3 general election, insisting that the election was fraudulent even after the United States Supreme Court rejected a suit to toss out ballots in the states of Pennsylvania. The president said another lawsuit, this one filed by Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, has…
The Trump campaign is so broke that they can’t afford to match Joe Biden’s $6.2 million in ad spending in the state of Texas.
Texas, especially during the 8 year run of George W. Bush, has been a ruby red Republican stronghold. There have been cracks over the last 10 years with Democrats winning house seats and Beto O’Rourke coming within 3 points of defeating Ted Cruz. There have been a number of recent polls that show Joe Biden…
The Governor of Texas has credited Sean Hannity with mask wearing in his state after the Fox News’ personality urged viewers to don a face covering to fight Coronavirus. Greg Abbott told Fox News’ morning program Fox & Friends on Friday that Texas was now following Hannity’s suggestion. “What Texas has begun to do is exactly what…
Allen West has been elected the new chair of the Texas Republican Party in a virtual convention held early Monday morning. The former congressman defeated the incumbent chairman. Outgoing Chairman James Dickey was seeking a second term at the helm of the party but West managed to defeat him in the early hours of Monday…
Judge Lynn Hughes, a Texas federal judge, has ruled that the state can hold an in-person Republican convention in Houston despite a spike in coronavirus cases. Hughes’ ruling overturns Mayor Sylvester Turner’s cancellation of the contract between the city’s GRB convention center and the GOP. The GOP can hold the convention this weekend or weekend,…
Texas Democrats are calling for another stay-at-home order in response to the state’s rising coronavirus case numbers. Texas continues to break records. The Lone Star State has logged 8,472 new cases and 81 new deaths thus far today, according to the latest statistics. Yesterday the state reported a record of 105 deaths due to the…
Beto O’Rourke has called on the Governor of Texas to resign over his handling of the Coronavirus. The former congressman blasted Greg Abbott for his failures during the pandemic. O’Rourke was responding to an interview where Abbott criticized some local officials in the state who are calling for stay-at-home orders and other measures. Abbott opens…
Texas Republican Representative Louis Gohmert eschewed science and the recommendations of health experts when asked why he doesn’t wear a mask when on the House floor to prevent infection from coronavirus. “I don’t have the coronavirus, turns out as of yesterday I’ve never had it. But if I get it, you’ll never see me without…
Critics have rounded on Texas Governor Greg Abbott for singling out young people as Coronavirus cases in the state rise. Abbott scolded the under-30s for not taking the virus seriously. “We are beginning to see for the month of June an increase in the number of people testing positive who are in the age group…
An arm of the Republican Party has spent $400,000 purchasing copies of a book written by one it congressmen. A political campaign filing revealed the expenditure. The National Republican Congressional Committee spent the large sum of money on 25,500 copies of Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s book Fortitude. They used their copies as part of a fundraising drive. Crenshaw…
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) received his first haircut in three months at Salon à la Mode, the same salon owned by Shelley Luther, who was jailed this week for defying the state’s stay-at-home order and reopening her business early. “Hair salons & barbershops are open in TX today. Just got my hair cut for first…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) admitted during a private call with lawmakers that reopening the economy would spread the coronavirus even as he publicly announced that he would end an executive stay-at-home order. The news was first reported by The Daily Beast; a spokesperson for Abbott confirmed the call is authentic. “How do we know reopening businesses won’t…
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has called on Texas and Florida to do more to contain the spread of Covid-19. Dr. Gottlieb told CNBC that the states’ governors needed to take action. “I think the real wild card here and the decision point on whether or not we’re gonna have the bad outcome that Dr….
At the “Howdy Modi” rally in Houston, Prime Minister Modi of India got bigger applause than Donald Trump from a Republican crowd in Texas.
The Trump administration is treating children worse than animals and that is a crime against humanity.
Following patterns seen around the country, there were historically large turnouts throughout the state on Monday as early voting opened in Texas. More than 63,000 in-person votes were cast in Harris County, The Houston Chronicle reported, compared to 20,215 in 2014. This is really good news for U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat challenging U.S….
On Friday, the Texas Board of Education voted to eliminate Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the state’s social studies curriculum. “Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton from history curriculum†Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton from history curriculum https://t.co/7WhxrZI0Jx pic.twitter.com/opaaWiFoEZ — The Hill (@thehill) September 15,…
The polls in the U.S. Senate race in Texas between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke show the race is tightening and it looks like Cruz is starting to panic. He just released a series of new TV ads that are supposed to help him cruise to an easy reelection victory but instead they have backfired…
The Speaker of the Texas House sent a letter to President Donald Trump requesting that he immediately stop taking children away from their parents.
Sometimes Republicans say such ridiculous things that you wonder if they are kidding or not. Usually, though, they are deadly serious, and often put forth proposed solutions to our problems that are nothing short of preposterous. The latest of these is conservative commentator and MSNBC host Hugh Hewitt‘s suggestion on Monday that the Santa Fe,…
People living in the United States but near the border with Mexico feel like they’ve had enough. “Our community is already heavily militarized,â€Â said Bekah Hinojosa from Brownsville, Texas. “Cameras line the international bridges, we are surrounded by border checkpoints, border patrol helicopters can be seen in the sky, and agents patrol every highway. We reject…
The grieving people of Sutherland Springs were treated to the same old rhetoric that blames everything – laws, bureaucracy, and mental health – other than guns.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday estimated damage from Hurricane Harvey at $150 billion to $180 billion, calling it more costly than epic hurricanes Katrina or Sandy and fueling a debate over how to pay for the disaster.
Trump’s declining mental health and inability to govern a country combined with the strong winds and flash floods of a massive hurricane are the recipe for a complete catastrophe.Â
Republicans in Texas keep trying to find new ways to rig the electoral system, but the courts are on to them.
“Texas Senate has no problem with taxpayer-funded discrimination against virtually anyone who doesn’t meet a public official’s personal [religious] standards.”
It remains to be seen what Donald Trump will do on a national scale as president.
According to the CBS News Battleground Tracker, reliably Republican Texas is a now a battleground state as Donald Trump’s lead of three points is within the poll’s margin of error.
What’s sad about Trump’s Texas campaign stop isn’t just the content of the teleprompter speech, but the fact that he was forced to travel to the state in the first place.
Secretary Hillary Clinton called SCOTUS’ Texas decision a victory for women across America but pointed out that the fight is far from over, “In Texas and across the country, a woman’s constitutional right to make her own health decisions is under attack. In the first three months of 2016, states introduced more than 400 measures restricting access to abortion.”
“It had to be political because Donald Trump was treated differently than any other scam artist in the 16 years I was at the consumer protection office.”
There have been more criminal charges filed against Paxton than there have been cases, zero in fact, of transgender people entering restrooms to commit assaults.
Even in extremely dangerous pregnancies, Doctors are forbidden to induce labor because Texas considers it an abortion
Texas’ governor claimed that the sentiment that others celebrate the holidays in their own way was bullying and persecuting Christians
Voters in Houston Texas, the fourth largest city in America, voted to delete a non-discrimination ordinance and legalize discrimination
Ted Cruz picked up the endorsement of notorious bigot Sandy Rios, wowed the haters at a Texas megachurch, and won the Tea Party caucus in NC
While campaigning in New Hampshire, Ted Cruz accused Barack Obama of inciting the ambush murder of Harris County Deputy Darren Gofourth.
A few violent conspiracy nuts seem determined to wage a quixotic war on America.
Ted Cruz just brought in the largest campaign contribution in the 2016 election cycle, from a pair of rich Texas frackers
The Texas Supreme Court argued that “The legislative power reserved to the people of Houston is not being honored.”
Texas has been violating the 14th amendment, by refusing to issue birth certificates to American-born children of undocumented immigrants.
Rick Perry raised just 1.07 million dollars in the 2nd quarter of 2015. In 2012, he raised 17 million during his 1st quarter of fundraising.
On Friday, President Barack Obama designated three new National Monuments in the Western United States.
It is prescient that the top law enforcement officer in Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, is either completely ignorant of the provisions ensconced in the Texas RFRA, or he is aware of the law’s protection of Texans’ civil rights and still says they do not apply to the LGBT community because…bible, god, religious freedom, judicial tyranny, and opposition to the U.S. Constitution.
Rick Perry vowed that if he were president we would not have to worry about progress or equal rights, because he firmly believes in letting states discriminate against people’s rights.
The State of Texas won’t allow the Confederate flag on its license plates, while South Carolina won’t even lower their’s to half-mast
Huckabee raged and attempted to contradict the President telling Fox News that, “I assure you that one beheading is much worse than a sunburn.”
But now, the Texas-size extremism is spreading to Arizona and it includes Texas-style armed biker thugs, conspiracy theorists, and anti-Muslim sentiments that set Texas apart as right-wing extremist central.
It is true that all Republicans are blatant hypocrites, but now that go-it-alone awesome Texas experienced a little anthropogenic climate change weather, the Lone Star State’s Republicans, both tea party and mainstream Republicans alike, are demanding some of those hated “federal government handouts” they oppose for other Americans whether it is for food, housing, healthcare, or disaster relief.
Bryan Fischer and company think they can pinpoint sodomy and witchcraft as the causes of Texas flooding, but the Bible – like science – disagrees
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could fundamentally alter the way districts are drawn in the United States.
As Jeb has reminded us, Dubya is our problem, not his. Or Gohmert’s. Or the Republican Party’s, it seems
For the second time in a year, law enforcement officials held their violent aggression and hostility normally reserved for peaceful African Americans in check when a mass of armed white men began clubbing, stabbing, and shooting each other in Waco Texas.
A national PPP poll finds that 32 percent of Republican voters believe “the government is trying to take over Texas”.
I paraphrase, but not by much. Gohmert uses nuns, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Waco 1993 to prove Obama is to blame
The shooting just became a great recruiting tool for expanding Geller’s intolerant army of Muslim-hating Americans.
Instead of ignoring the paranoid Texans, or telling them to grow up, Texas Governor Greg Abbott incited more distrust by ordering a Texas militia to keep the real U.S. military under a watchful eye to prevent any violations of the Constitution and Texans’ liberties.
It is true, George W. Bush is hapless, but he is also an idiot for not recognizing his own failures as president and in fact actually regards himself as a raging success.
Once again Republicans show they haven’t read their Bibles – or their Constitution – before they start legislating Jesus into law
When the President supported a nationwide ban on “Conversion Therapy”, he mentioned the idea of state solutions.
Ted Cruz, like every other Republican, hates being quoted, and it’s never his fault that he said it, but the media’s fault for reporting it
