TX Progressives take a look at the TX Legislature, GOPers for Prez and more

The Texas Progressive Alliance supports an impeachment of President Trump on real grounds, like the Emoluments Clause, while encouraging both national Democrats and Beltway stenos to drop the worst of their Russiagate mindsets. Meanwhile, here’s this week’s roundup.

Off the Kuff celebrated the settlement agreement in the lawsuits over that bogus SOS advisory.

With Bill Weld now officially in, SocraticGadfly offers his first take on the 2020 GOP presidential race.

Brains discusses the 2020 Senate race. 

And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs and news sites.

Texas' anti-BDS ban with oath, for state contractors, ruled unconstitutional by federal judge. 

A.H. Belo invester-shareholder says company should take newspaper half private, questions decision to expand digital marketing in areas where it has no expertise.

Will Joaquin Castro's friends and allies be more or less baffled now that he is officially done playing Hamlet and instead chickened out on running for the Dem nomination to face Big John Cornyn? (Winners are both M.J. Hegar and Sema Hernandez, Hegar because she won't have to face an experienced politician and Hernandez because there likely won't be a second Hispanic in the primary. Just saying.)

Texas Observer talks more about the sales tax for property tax swap, while still failing to mention Legiscritter Drew Springer, the stealth actor behind this.

Ed Espinoza calls us to action to stop SB9, the latest anti-voting effort from Dan Patrick and the Republicans.

Abbie-Louise Lord and Jenn Char document their efforts to give up single-use plastic for Lent.

Jef Rouner argues that you cannot be "pro-life" if you are anti-vaccine.

Daniel Williams presents his research on how conflicts inn policy positions between special interests may be analyzed.

Sanford Nowlin reports on the effort to push bail reform in Bexar County

Juanita checks in on our old pal Rick Perry.

The Texas Trib has an update on the status of the Dallas-Houston bullet train. 

Stephen Young reports that AG Kenny Boy Paxton, or his office, DID communicate by email with his state senatecritter wife before she filed a bill to gut state securities law. 

Jim Schutze talks about how the city of Dallas’ plan for a Trinity River mud run, er city park, have hit snafus.

My former state house legiscritter Dan Flynn, for the first time since he proposed it many sessions ago, got his Ten Commandments in schools bill out of committee. In case you don't know, Flynn is a loon about fake Sharia law claims anywhere while being a loon of another sort, against the Constitution, for anything Christian.