Texas Progressives look at elections; we're not cooking with gas

Ruy Teixeira has a breakout on the latest Pew information about Hispanic voting for president last year. Hispanics by all major areas of national origin broke harder for Trump than in 2016. By states, they did so in almost every state but California; Valley Hispanics in Texas were not an outlier. As with Anglos, education, followed by income level, were the biggest variables in predicting Trump or Biden support. 

Off the Kuff documents the latest lawsuit (#6 in a series) against Texas' voter suppression law.

Stace gives us a snapshot of the 2021 Alief ISD Bond propositions as we get ready for the November election.

Texas Election Source draws a maximally competitive Congressional map.

Following up on an item in last week's Roundup, Michele Carew has resigned as Hood County elections administrator after hounding by MAGAts. Pro Publica notes she appears to be part of a growing trend.

Lil Kalish speaks to a volunteer driver at the Bridge Collective, which provides transportation and accommodations to people in central Texas seeking abortions, about their work.

The Texas Politics Project takes a long view at our state's attitudes towards abortion and anti-abortion laws.

Amber Briggle makes the economic case for LGBTQ inclusion in the Texas workforce.

Are Democrats doomed in the Senate for a decade? Ezra Klein discusses what David Shor claims. Klein leaves open the door that Shor is either too simplistic or that some of his claims may be true but based on different data points. I also think Shor is wrong on his claims of why Hillary Clinton lost, and Klein doesn't take that one.

The Fifth Circuit temporarily paused the federal district judge's pause on SB 8, the Texas abortion-killing law. The Trib notes that any places that performed abortions during the pause might be liable to suit, though the doctor who admitted doing one a month ago has yet to face any real suits, from what I recall. And, Texas Right to Life is coy about its plans over this. Shock me, the grifting bastiches.

Former Brazoria County District Clerk Rhonda Barchuk is a Dum Fuq indeed, and most likely a racist one, for her likely illegal method of selecting people for juries, no matter what her attorney says. (The fact she has one illustrates it's a problem. So does the fact that about everybody involved in felony criminal justice in the county knew about this.)

An illegal immigrant appears to have been lynched.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is running his re-election campaign by directly attacking Trump. (Sort of; the body of the story doesn't live up to the header.)

The Hill says most Senate GOPers don't want Trump to run again. But, if he does, they'll collapse like a house of cards before the primaries are half done.

Here's who that "Blacks for Trump" guy really is.

A number of stories have come out in the last year about how a gas stove pollutes the inside of your house or apartment. NPR's is the best I've seen so far. Plus, from a serious car wreck five years ago? I have issues with gas leaks and gas companies' non-responsiveness about them. Every bit we can do to reduce natural gas usage, especially as long as gas utility safety issues are unregulated (as in why they're not required to have a text-message alert system about leaks) is good.

QAnon leads a California man to allegedly kill his own kids.

Speaking of, you really don't want to be a Black kid in particular, or a kid in general, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, where the juvenile court judge is elected, makes $176K, and was born in Mount Juliet, home of another wingnut, Charlie Daniels.

Why is Josh Marshall an apologist for Hucksterman? I don't know the why, but in claiming "there's no willfully bad person doing this," I know the IS is true. Of course, part of "why" is that he's a neoliberal capitalist.