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Recap: Chaos and Castros at the 2016 Texas Democratic Convention
Update: This post has been updated to reflect the total number of convention attendees and delegates. Will Rogers once said, “I belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” Well, ol’ Will...
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The Texas Miracle #10: The Day That Shook the Capitol (Literally)
This week on the Texas Miracle, the Texas Observer’s weekly compendium of everything you need to know, but maybe wish you didn’t, about the Lone Star state: We’re celebrating the three year...
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Money for Nothing: D.C. Dems View Texas as an ATM
Disney/ABC Flickr/Creative CommonsHillary Clinton walks onstage to accept the party’s nomination for president at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. I don’t think of myself as a particularly...
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The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)
This week on the Texas Observer’s weekly compendium of everything you need to know, but maybe wish you didn’t, about the Lone Star State: We’re stacking the show with the best of our first four months...
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What Wendy Davis Can Teach Texas About Hillary Clinton
Patrick Michels / Matt Johnson / Andrea GrimesWendy Davis at her gubernatorial campaign announcement in 2013; Hillary Clinton at an Iowa presidential campaign stop in 2016. They called her a crook,...
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The Observer’s Founding Editor: ‘Bring the Fight Back’ to Texas Politics
Illustration by Adam Maida The presidency of Donald Trump is an emergency for the United States. Now is the time for each ethics-seeking American citizen to fight for democracy in a nonviolent...
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After Baylor Scandal, Survivor-Centered Bills Give Texas a Chance to Lead...
After Baylor Scandal, Survivor-Centered Bills Give Texas a Chance to Lead Campus Sexual Assault Fight Advocates say less than 10 percent of sexual assaults are reported in Texas and legislation...
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Anti-Abortion Lawmakers (Almost All Men) Are Worried Time is Running Out on...
Anti-abortion lawmakers flank Texas Right to Life legislative director John Seago at a press conference. Sophie Novack With less than a month left in the legislative session, anti-abortion lawmakers...
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Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion...
Handmaids wait to enter the Senate Chamber. Ignacio Martinez In white bonnets and bright-red robes, they sit silently in protest as lawmakers usher in yet another bill that will make it harder for...
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A ‘Blue Wave’ with No One to Ride It: Will a Big-Name Democrat Run in Texas?
Democratic candidates (left to right): Andrew White, running for governor, Justin Nelson, for attorney general, and Mike Collier, for lieutenant governor. AndrewWhite.com, Facebook With a massively...
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Here’s how a two-party system works, in theory: One party wins office on the strength of its plans to fix problems, and its elected officials then use the power of government to partially implement...
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A ‘Blue Wave’ Without Much Green
With record-level turnout in the Democratic primaries and possibly the most favorable political conditions in decades, progressives in Texas feel the tug of a blue wave. But an underwhelming slate of...
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Taking Stock of Texas Democrats After the 2018 Runoff Election
The life of a Texas Democrat is full to the brim with dramatic irony, but especially so in the last 18 years, since the good millennium gave way to the bad millennium. In the first decade of this...
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Four Takeaways from the Texas Democratic Convention
More than 7,000 delegates for the Texas Democratic Party convened in Fort Worth over the past few days to ruminate on the prospects of a blue wave in November. Activists packed caucus meetings for...
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Texas is a Purple State Now. The Proof is in Last Night’s Results.
Photos/Brad Tollefson, Justin Miller, Illustration/Sunny Sone When Ted Cruz slipped ahead of Beto O’Rourke in the count last night, there was a wave of anguish and recrimination from Democrats on...
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New Democrats Hope For a More Bipartisan Texas Senate in 2019
When the Texas Senate convenes in January, Democrats will have one more senator in their ranks. But the reality is that Republicans and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick are still firmly in control of a...
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The ‘Fetal Heartbeat’ Bill Has 57 Authors. All but 3 of them Are Men.
In a legislative session so far characterized by a focus on school finance and property tax cuts, growing support for a controversial abortion bill is threatening to disrupt the relative harmony among...
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Texas House Advances Bill that Could Actually Clear the Rape Kit Backlog
State lawmakers have been talking about fixing the rape kit backlog since 2011, when former state Senator Wendy Davis passed legislation requiring an audit that revealed at least 18,000 untested rape...
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