The Trib's story about Congresscritter Michael McCaul announcing he won't run for re-election doesn't say why, but the announcement, or even more, his backstory, is interesting.
Not only is McCaul NOT a MAGAt, after the 2016 election, he was one of a very small number of Republicans of name nationally stating that Republican National Committee computers had been hacked earlier that year as well as Democratic National Committee ones.
Of importance? Of course!
Per my hugely detailed piece on the issue, it was one part in blowing away deliberately made-up conspiracy theories that some "Forensicator" had hacked only DNC files and that this hack was in some way connnected to Julian Assange because of his hatred of the Clintons. Rather, it showed that this was indeed a Russian government operation — if at a step removed by actually being done by one of Yevgeny Prigozhin's organizations. Green Party 2020 prez nominee Howie Hawkins got the overall background story half right, and got flamed for it by many Greens, one more step in me becoming a non-Green, but yet, still very much a non-duopoly skeptical leftist. (Howie himself writing blank checks to Xi Jinping at the same time was an even bigger step.)
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