SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives get ready for the holidays

December 23, 2021

Texas Progressives get ready for the holidays

Shades of a couple of years ago, the Secretary of State + DPS are still flagging citizens as non-citizens.

SocraticGadfly offers a few thoughts from up on the Red about 2022 primary filings (and Green and Libertarian convention filings). 

Stace gives us his thoughts on some of the 2022 Dem Primary races.

Off the Kuff (with Kuffner a week behind the curve on my version of the roundup from a week ago) lets you know about the absolutely bonkers primary election that Republican voters in Potter County are fixing to have.

A now-former rookie teacher talks about how her first year, self-truncated, played out in the middle of COVID. Beyond the COVID issues, what she learned about the education system in general is half the story. As with the Great Resignation, COVID basically just accelerated trends.

Meet the jaguarundi, which probably isn't in Texas, but, people are looking.

The Monthly talks about the bois d'arc tree and its "Osage orange" fruit without noting their alternative names of "bois d'arc balls" or "horse apples."

As discussed elsewhere, the Monthly talks about Cal Gov Gavin Newsom's plan to greenlight citizen lawsuits for gun control, since the Supremes OKed SB 8. It adds that gun nutz warned about this in arguments before the court.

Speaking of holidays, the Chronic has a four part investigative story, starting here, about how many millions of dollars churches around the state get on property tax exemptions for church-owned parsonages. The sky's the limit on appraisal; just has to be on 1 acre or less of land.

Texas Monthly presents the 2022 Bum Steer Award winners.  

The Bloggess tells you how to participate in the 12th annual James Garfield Miracle.  

Mark Sumner earns "honorary Texan" status for reminding us of the time that Louie Gohmert sued Mike Pence for the crime of obeying the law this past January.  

Juanita is not impressed by Ken Paxton's "vote fraud" efforts.  

Will Wilder and Elizabeth Hira show how the Freedom to Vote Act would de-fang Texas' voter suppression law.

I personally will be off birding in the Southwest. Posts will be light through the new year.

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