Texas progressives await Super Tuesday's results

Avoiding wishing readers a belated Happy Texas Independence Day because of wingnuts saying "God Bless Texas," Religious Right wingnuts ignoring that the Texas Revolution (as well as the U.S. Revolution, for that matter) was a grave sin because it violated Romans 8 which calls for "submission to the governing authorities," and offers neither ethical exceptions nor legal loopholes, this outpost of Texas Progressives, per a national politics link of mine below, wishes readers a "Happy Black Cherokees Day" while it eagerly awaits the state and national results of Super Tuesday.

Remember: We don't have straight ticket voting here in Tex-ass any more. Who benefits overall: Rethugs or Doinks?


Texas politics

Brains weighed in on the Texas Democratic Senate primary, which was apparently going to send former Libertarian and current gun nut M.J. Hegar to a run off against either a ConservaDem, Royce West, or #FakeTexMex Christine/Cristina "various last names."

Texas Monthly wondered if Jessica Cisneros could pull off the primary upset over Henry Cuellar. The Observer discusses how Cuellar got here, starting with being a modern Landslide Lyndon.

Off the Kuff analyzed the three primary polls we got last week.

The Texas Signal finds another new candidate for Worst Republican.

Sanford Nowlin begs to differ.

Texana

The Dow ain't the only thing that dropped like a rock last week over coronavirus fears. West Texas Intermediate dipped to $45 a barrel, which makes even more fracked wells in the Permian Basin underwater.

The TSTA Blog dismisses private school vouchers as a "conservative moral value."

Houston

So, contra former mayor Annise Parker's big PR push about the city possibly passing Chicago in population, who would want to live in a place that, if flooding from hurricanes to weak tropical depressions weren't bad enough, decided to flood itself by busting one of its primary water mains?

Better Texas Blog urges people who may be affected by the anti-immigrant "public charge rule" to stay enrolled in public assistance programs.

Dallas

Jim Schutze calls out the Snooze for hypocrisy on endorsements.

The Dallas Observer notes the settlement in the case of a teacher who was fired for being gay.

National

In the anticipation of Super Tuesday, Gadfly expected Elizabeth Warren to get about zero Cherokee support in her native Oklahoma. That's OK. Many anti-Warren Cherokees, as he illustrated, have about zero support for black Cherokees, too.

It's official. East Texas wingnut (no, not Gohmert Pyle) and Trump fellator John Ratcliffe is Trump's nomination to be DNI, despite many Rethuglican senators hinting to Trump not to do it last time the position came open.

Trump's attempt to gut the Flores Rule on immigrant detention hearings has been rejected by the Ninth Circuit. Trump's asylum ban was also rejected there, this vote being unanimous.

Brooke Lewis celebrates Black History Month as a history of endurance.

In an item of note for Super Tuesday and going ahead from there, Rolling Stone reports that in two two primaries and two caucuses so far, Democratic turnout has been mediocre? moderate? bleah? or whatever word is your choice.

International

SocraticGadfly read Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" and was left with lots more questions (about Snowden, not the government) than he had before.