TX Progressives offer pre-turkey roundup

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The Texas Progressive Alliance wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving as it brings you this week's roundup.

Off the Kuff looked at the results of the Congressional races to find some themes about what happened and what we can learn from them.

SocraticGadfly remembers the centenary of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Along with indulging in counterfactual history, he says people should stop romancing war in general.

As the results of the 2018 election are still being finalized, TexasLeftist

is pretty sure that the Georgia Governor’s race will be remembered as one of the most important of this cycle.  Though Democrat Stacey Abrams has ended her historic campaign, the work she does to combat Voter Suppression will have a lasting national impact.

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Better Texas Blog explains the spending cap that the Legislature adheres to.

David Bruce Collins is down with the Movement for a People’s Party.

Houston Justice League reports from the NAACP Houston chapter elections.

Houston Legal has the details of the public reprimand issued by the State Bar of Texas against former Harris County GOP Chair and notorious homophobe Jared Woodfill.

Nonsequiteuse urges Beto O'Rourke to take another run for the Senate in 2020.

Paradise in Hell tells you more than you needed to know about Trumpy Bear.

Dan Solomon is satisfied with how the Amazon HQ2 thing turned out.

At the Dallas Observer, Jim Schutze talks about a secret “black folks tunnel” entrance to the State Fair.

At the Dallas Observer, Jim Schutze talks about a secret “black folks tunnel” entrance to the State Fair.

Schutze also discusses how many small water dams in Texas At the Dallas Observer, have individual homeowners on the hook if they fail.

Grits for Breakfast calls on Congress to pass the First Step Act.

What happened to antiwar protesters? Barack Obama

Both Todd Gitlin and Medea Benjamin, in response, wrestle with that issue.

Gitlin cites a host of factors as to why the movement has fizzled. That said, a rural all-volunteer military was in place 10 years ago, Todd. Obama as well as Bush has been a fear-monger. And, if "out" is a goal, not a plan, the same was true about Vietnam.

Gitlin is slipping if he's writing dreck like this.

Benjamin claims the movement is still "on," just more silent. Her pointing to things like the Jones Amendment are weak tea, though, I think.

Besides that, though?

Both miss a huge chunk of the issue, though.

Obamiacs who give him a pass on warmongering are a definite part of the demise. Example A: Juan Cole. Nuff said.

Cod Pink, war enabler

Dealing a full load of smackdown, Alec Cockburn says that “antiwar” activist group Code Pink is, in essence, becoming like a Gang Green enviro group and trading ideals for access to power by not protesting escalation of the war in Afghanistan. (Apologies for sending people to the icon of war, the F-22!)