Texas Progressives talk polls and races, plus abortion and death penalty

Off the Kuff published an interview with a co-founder of the Amarillo Reproductive Freedom Alliance, to discuss their fight against an abortion travel ban in that city. 

SocraticGadlfy had fun trolling Mark Robinson (and selected bycatch) on Twitter.

Colin Allred is ahead of Cancun Ted Cruz in one poll; and a debate is set for Oct. 15. I won't be voting for either, but getcha popcorn. Related? Allred, in an interview with the Monthly, doubles down on being a ConservaDem.

Multiple Texas House Rethuglicans have already thrown their hat in the ring. But, they've now "suspended" those hats after 48 members of the House GOP said they unanimously — after multiple rounds of voting — back David Cook to replace Dade "Dade" Phelan as speaker. Per LBJ, 48 ain't 76. And, if Phelan gets all Democrap members (assuming they're still a minority) will the Texas state GOP really expel half a dozen House members from the party for violating a House GOP caucus rule?

That said, a bipartisan group of House members officially urged clemency for Robert Roberson.  The Observer has a lot more background than the Trib. The Barbed Wire also jumps in.

There's a shit-ton of hydrogen sulfide leaking from older wells at the north end of the Eagle Ford area and further north.

As of late latest week, the State Fair's gun ban was still in place.

The Amarillo Reproductive Freedom Alliance folks had a guest post on Jessica Valente's Substack about their fight. 

Tony Blinken, genocide blank-check cutter. 

Remember, the "most lethal military" that a Black woman wants the US to have as president already badly affects indigenous people around the world.

The Texas Observer has a deep dive into Ken and Angela Paxton's "ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant". 

 The Dallas Observer talks to some of the men in Texas who are speaking out about the need for reproductive freedom. 

The Current ponders the future of a San Antonio architectural icon.

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project said it’s important for active rank & file Democrats doing the work to sustain the party, to consider that the elected officials they are backing often have different objectives than they do.