SocraticGadfly: Texas Progressives talk campaigns and the Fourth

July 11, 2025

Texas Progressives talk campaigns and the Fourth

Off the Kuff rounds up the latest word on who is or at least might be running for what.

Related to the Fourth of July, SocraticGadfly first said the US of A is still a republic not a democracy (if that) and then riffed on Reality Winner.

The Fifth Circuit has said that Senate Bill 4 from 2023, which turned unauthorized border crossings into state crimes, is unconstitutional.

Kenny Boy Paxton has dropped his appeal of his office whistleblowers' lawsuit, but the problem remains that, as things stand, the Lege still has to appropriate the payout, to which it already said nyet before.

Trump's admin is now doing what it can to bar Mexican truck drivers.

Taylor Crumpton goes stanning for Beyonce's Black-pride brownwashing of American Indians and barfs me. (That's the correct description, Kuff, not yours.)

Lone Star Left has an early look at Democratic state legislative candidates. At least it admits its partisanship is anti-independent (and anti-third party) as well as anti-Republican.

Steve Vladeck tries to make sense of SCOTUS' terrible term.  

Deceleration has issues with Trump's deep sea mining order.  

Pete Vonder Haar muses about post-apocalypse culture.

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