Texas Progressives on 'the wrong Carlos' and more

Allen West is doing it! He'll finish behind Strangeabbott, of course, but will he wind up ahead of or behind the Dreamy Don Huffines? My thoughts on that here.

Anybody who's not a wingnut has good evidence that innocent people have been executed by Tex-ass. The latest? Per both the Observer and the Monthly, a new documentary film about how the state executed the "wrong Carlos."

Danny Goeb booted friend Chris Tomlinson and his co-authors of a a new book about Texicans, slavery and the Alamo ... from speaking at the Bullock Museum. Of course, Goeb is just another white wingnut who has also bashed critical race theory with no attempt to understand it. And, there's additional fun of the Bullock Museum's director trying to spin this booting, as in, "we had nothing to do with it." Bullshit. This IS censorship in its proper First Amendment usage; state officials and a state museum conspired to ban a previously scheduled talk.

 

As the special session of the Lege approaches, the Snooze had a poll that said a slight majority of Texas voters oppose Strangeabbott, Goeb, et al on a border wall and critical race theory while the same narrow majority agree with sports competition for transsexual (gender?) athletes. More than 60 percent, though? Worried about summer electric blackouts! Rethuglicans are officially forewarned.

More border arrests prove the border is already more secure, contra Abbott's spinning.

One likely mud puddle in Northeast Texas, on Bois D'Arc Creek, isn't enough; Dallas' powers that be are continuing to push another.

What's likely one of the first exposed larger bitcoin money laundering schemes has resulted in a plea deal.

Finally! The feds get a conviction on a White developer in the Metromess, not just the Blacks on the Dallas City Council who took bribes from people like this.

Off the Kuff took a first look at how State Rep districts have changed over the last decade.

The 19th profiles two leaders of the Democratic legislative walkout over voter suppression, Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Gina Hinojosa.

The Texas Living Waters Project warns that we need to stop over-irrigating our lawns.

Texas 2036 has three takeaways from the 2021 STAAR test results.

The Dallas Observer updates us on the latest assault on free speech being committed by Collin College trustees.

Robert Rivard reviews our state's long history of suppressing the vote.

Scott Braddock examines Dan Patrick's deep and abiding convictions about "freedom of speech".