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Fort Bend and Harris County turned blue, congratulations!
There’s never been a better time to be a Texas Democrat
Author: The Texas Signal April 9, 2019 Progressives made huge gains last year up and down the ballot in the Lone Star State. Arch-conservative Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick won by, what, less than five points? And Sen.Ted Cruz by less than three. Unheard of. Houston went blue...
Texas House approves sweeping school finance reform
Author: The Texas Signal April 4, 2019 Photo by Emree Weaver/Texas Tribune What a difference a session of the Texas Legislature makes. Supporters of public education in the Lone Star State have for years sounded the alarm about the unsustainable state of school...
Beating Trump is highest priority among Democrats
Author: The Texas Signal April 4, 2019 The trite old saying about how Democrats fall in love when picking their candidates while Republicans fall in line may not be true for the 2020 presidential election. At least the part about Democrats. The #1 priority of...
Castro calls out Trump failure on immigration, proposes reform
The Texas Signal April 2, 2019 Photo by Rodger Mallison/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/TNS Democratic presidential Julián Castro today proposed his plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system. The former U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development and Mayor of...
NEW: Harris County files U.S. Supreme Court brief opposing Trump Administration’s immigrant purge from Census
Author: The Texas Signal April 1, 2019 Harris County filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday opposing the Trump Administration’s efforts to include a citizenship question in the 2020 Census. Adding such a question, the brief argues, violates the...
Cruz sues Federal Election Commission to pay himself back
Author: The Texas Signal April 1, 2019 Photo by Damon Winter/New York Times U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to be able to raise funds to repay personal loans to his own campaign. The 2018 election was costly for Cruz in more...
At El Paso kickoff, O’Rourke stresses importance of Texas in 2020 presidential campaign
Author: The Texas Signal Photo by Mark Lambie/ El Paso Times March 30, 2019 Amid a sea of American flags checkering downtown El Paso, Beto O’Rourke formally launched his 2020 presidential campaign Saturday. “I officially launch this campaign to serve you as the next...
Texas on track to cast more than 10 million votes in 2020
Author: The Texas Signal March 28, 2019 The Lone Star State has long lagged the national average in voter turnout. A 2017 Nonprofit VOTE/U.S. Elections Project report noted Texas had the country’s third-lowest turnout rate in the 2016 presidential election – 51.6...