SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives offer last pre-election Roundup

October 30, 2024

Texas Progressives offer last pre-election Roundup

Kenny Boy Paxton has agreed to stop targeting GOTV organizations while a federal appeals court looks at a district court's ruling that the state law he's been relying on is unconstitutional. The related lawsuit is probably part of the issue; if the Fifth Circuit upholds the lower court ruling, Paxton could be facing punitive damages.

What were the odds on a MAGAt assaulting an election clerk?

Meet Sally Duval, the "pot lady" running for the Texas House.

John Whitmire, afraid of pro-Palestinian protestors. Contra most pro-Palestinian issues of the last 13 months, not just inside the borders of Texas but inside his hometown, Kuff actually wrote something about this, but ONLY to talk about the legal issues, not the Palestinian issues.

This longform by the Monthly goes into deep details of the obvious: the solution for "controlling the border" and migration isn't at the border.

This Atlantic piece about BYWho's Jewish quarterback, Jake Retzlaff, almost certainly, without me knowing details of all the alleged instances, fuses antisemitism and anti-Zionism. I saw it via Kuff, which is an additional reason to think that.

Meet the people profiting off SB 4, the law passed in the last special session of the Lege in 2023 that claimed illegal immigration was an "invasion" and thus Tex-ass could supersede the feds in enforcement and punishment. More on that here.

Off the Kuff has a first look at early voting

SocraticGadfly took a deep dive on the issue of newspaper endorsements, both at the two big newspapers in question, and also the big picture, including it being known inside the industry 20-plus years ago that presidential endorsements are of little value. He'll have a follow-up later this week, looking more at the two papers in question.

Your Local Epidemiologist considers what we know about the new RSV vaccine. 

  Therese Odell vents some well-earned outrage over Trump's latest garbage about veterans, specifically Vanessa Guillen. 

Nonsequiteuse explains what your goals are if you experience interference or problems at the polls.

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