Texas Progressives

Off the Kuff has your list of Democratic Senate maybe-candidates so far. 

SocraticGadfly talks about Southwest Airlines facing more turbulence and what some of the post-May 28 will mean.

Democrats want Biden to go away; leftists want Democrats to go away. 

Henry Cuellar still has Texas and national Democrats by the gonads. 

Once again, this time on homeowners' insurance costs, the Rethuglicans of the Texas Lege love capitalism until they hate it. More on that theme, re property taxes, at the Observer.

Largest measles outbreak since 2000.

This story of regular people farmers waiting to testify before the House half of the Lege is why Tex-ass needs to fix its dysfunctional, every-other-year, banana republic governance. But won't, in part because the powers-that-be that fund Legiscritters, along with many Legiscritters, like that it drives away the concerned public. More on the bill these people support — and why — at the Monthly, if you don't hit the paywall.

Speaking of teh stupidz, the Libertarian Party (presumably still driven on this by the Mises Mice) has plenty of it vis-a-vis Trump.