Joaquin Castro We Are Firmly in the Boycott Era of Politicstexasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon Last week, Joaquin Castro tweeted a list of big-money individual donors to Donald Trump’s campaign from his hometown of San Antonio. In the tweet, …
University of Texas at Austin Former Ambassador Tony Garza on Mexico, Trump, and Whether Texas Is Turning Bluetexasmonthly.com - Carlos Sanchez Brownsville native Tony Garza, a former U.S. ambassador to Mexico, former Texas secretary of state, and former Cameron County judge, visited the Rio …
John Cornyn Workers Defense Project Founder Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez Is the Latest Democrat to Take on John Cornyntexasmonthly.com - Carlos Sanchez If you’re a Democrat in the market for a candidate who draws a sharp contrast with John Cornyn, you could do worse than Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez. …
Texas The Scandal Swirling Around House Speaker Dennis Bonnen Is Bad. But Is It Criminal?texasmonthly.com - R.G. Ratcliffe As far as speaker scandals go, L’affaire de Dennis Bonnen is missing some of the luster of past episodes. The controversy lacks the lurid appeal of …
Texas The Speaker and the Creeper: Everything You Need to Know About the Craziest Texas Political Scandal in Yearstexasmonthly.com - fwilder Have you ever seen slow-motion footage of an atomic bomb test? There’s a bright flash of light and an explosion that starts small, and you could be …
John Ratcliffe Would-Be Spymaster John Ratcliffe Exits the National Spotlighttexasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon John Ratcliffe started this week with the prospect of a big promotion. President Donald Trump tapped the North Texas congressman as the next director …
Republican Party Congressman Will Hurd on His Surprise Retirement, Whether He’s Running for President, and the GOP’s Big Problemstexasmonthly.com - Eric Benson Will Hurd is exactly the kind of politician the Republican party’s establishment once dreamed about being their future. In March 2013, the Republican …
Julian Castro Julián Castro is Finally Becoming the Politician He Was Supposed to Betexasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon In 2012, Julián Castro was 37 years old, the mayor of San Antonio, and actively being groomed to be the Democratic party’s next Obama. When he was …
Texas Did House Speaker Dennis Bonnen Really Try to Bribe Michael Quinn Sullivan? An Investigation.texasmonthly.com - Christopher Hooks Politics these days can feel annoyingly scripted, the events of each news cycle preordained by some lower power. So when something genuinely shocking …
Hemp Here’s What Texas DAs Think of the New Hemp Law that Accidentally Decriminalized Pottexasmonthly.com - Leif Reigstad Hemp is now legal in Texas, thanks to House Bill 1325, which sailed through the Legislature earlier this year. Supporters hailed hemp’s potential …
ObamaCare Texas Might Kill Obamacare, But State Leaders Don’t Seem to Have a Plan for What’s Nexttexasmonthly.com - Christopher Hooks When a federal judge in Texas struck down the Affordable Care Act in December—the result of a legal challenge levied by the Trump administration and …
Beto O'Rourke Should Beto O’Rourke Drop Out?texasmonthly.com - Christopher Hooks Many of the Beto O’Rourke faithful in Texas, people who supported him during his 2018 Senate race, have now reached the same conclusion: Beto should …
Al Green Third Time’s the Charm? Houston Democrat Al Green is Going to Try to Impeach Trump Again.texasmonthly.com - Maria Recio Usually a soft-spoken lawmaker, Congressman Al Green, D-Houston, is launching his third formal effort to impeach President Donald Trump after he …
What the Hell Is Happening at the Border? (An Occasional Series, July 15 Edition)texasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon The Texas/Mexico border sits at the epicenter of our nation’s ongoing fights over immigration. To avoid overlooking the hugely significant news …
The Last Boy Scouttexasmonthly.com - R.G. Ratcliffe Long before Texans had heard of “no pass, no play,” and before free trade was a major political issue, the diminutive Dallas billionaire H. Ross …
Even Trump Wouldn’t Follow Advice from Ted Cruz and Chip Roy to Ignore the Supreme Courttexasmonthly.com - Christopher Hooks On Thursday, at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump reversed course on his administration’s long-running …
Dallas’s New Mayor on Data, Crime, and Why Dallas Needs to Get Selfishtexasmonthly.com - Jason Heid Mayor Eric Johnson begins with an apology. He’s calling several minutes late; he’s only been on the job for a couple weeks and hasn’t yet gotten the …
Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro are Fighting Over Who Gets to Be “The Texan”texasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon Texas Democrats still love Beto O’Rourke. In polls of the state, he leads every candidate in the field except Joe Biden. His improbable 2018 Senate …
Julián Castro Turns on Beto O’Rourke, and Why That’s Good for Elizabeth Warrentexasmonthly.com - Christopher Hooks Here’s a secret, one which I’d appreciate you don’t tell our engagement editor I told you: You don’t really have to pay any attention to the …
What the Hell Is Happening at the Border? (An Occasional Series, June 25 Edition)texasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon The Texas/Mexico border sits at the epicenter of our nation’s ongoing fights over immigration. To avoid overlooking the hugely significant news …
How Did the Dallas Courthouse Gunman Get Radicalized?texasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon On Monday morning, Brian Clyde, a 22-year-old who served two years in the Army, stalked outside of the Earl Cabell Federal Building in a black mask …
Our Favorite Bests, 1973-2019texasmonthly.com - Texas Monthly Craig Washington, 1973 Craig Washington was once a rising star in the statehouse known for his rousing oratory and fierce dedication to racial …
Our Favorite Worsts, 1973-2019texasmonthly.com - Texas Monthly Mark Stiles, 1983 The House’s peskiest bully, Mark Stiles spammed his colleagues with cartoons and catcalled them on the floor, all in an …
2019: The Best and Worst Legislatorstexasmonthly.com - Carlos Sanchez, R.G. Ratcliffe and Christopher Hooks In explaining how no one person in the Legislature deserves credit for passage of the big school finance and property tax plan this year, Lieutenant …
Congressman Henry Cuellar Draws a Primary Challenger from the Lefttexasmonthly.com - Maria Recio With backing from the same group of young activists who helped make New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a political star, a relatively …
South Texas Was Hotter than Death Valley Last Weektexasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon It is not exactly breaking news to say that Texas gets hot in the summer. So far in June, though, South Texas has gone from its usual “melt into a …
Historic Sites Texas Parks Are Broke. But Good News, Voters Can Rescue Them.texasmonthly.com - Wes Ferguson Money intended for state parks and historic sites should actually be spent on state parks and historic sites, right? It took lawmakers a little more …
North Texas Cops Caught Being Racist Onlinetexasmonthly.com - Leif Reigstad Police officers in Dallas and Denison have been caught making and circulating bigoted posts on social media, often advocating for the use of deadly …
Early Presidential Poll Shows that Texas May Be In Play in 2020texasmonthly.com - Carlos Sanchez In what may portend trouble next year for Donald Trump in particular, and Texas Republicans in general, a new poll released Wednesday shows that if …
Trump Is Threatening to Slap Tariffs on Imports from Mexico. That’s a Huge Deal for Texas. Here’s Why.texasmonthly.com - Leif Reigstad President Donald Trump announced last week that he intends to implement tariffs on all imports from Mexico, threatening a trade war that Texas …
