Texas Progressives get ready for the primary

Off the Kuff interviewed three Congressional candidates: Todd Ivey in CD09, Jarvis Johnson in CD29, and Justin Early in CD31.

SocraticGadfly offered up Part 1 and Part 2, with further installments likely, of Noam Chomsky in the Epstein files, and Chomsky thoughts background at this tag.

Well put thoughts by Mike Elk on singleness and Valentine's Day. 

Texans who want their governments to stop data centers should already know they're shit out of luck if they're not in an incorporated community, and if they lost an incorporation election, should STFU. 

Kudos to Lone Star Left for doing what Kuffner still won't and mentioning Leqaa Kordia. (I gave Michelle Davis a push.) Family and friends remain unable to locate where she's been hospitalized. That said, Kuff can write about things outside Texas, like ICE in Minneapolis. Pro-Palestinian protests, though? Never. 

(I omitted a link from Kuff about student ICE protests. Kuff, round me up a pro-Palestinian protest.) 

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project asked if Harris County can sue Trump over cuts to FEMA, why can’t Whitmire ever stand up to Trump or Abbott?

CultureMap and El Paso Matters mark the end of their cities' Alamo Drafthouses.

The Texas Observer reports on ICE locking up longtime Texans who had been on a path towards legal status.

Texas Public Opinion Research reveals how Democrats think they can win statewide. (They're wrong.)  

G. Elliott Morris shows how low-information voters have moved strongly against Trump.