The Texas Progressive Alliance gets ready to flush the bowl on 2015 take a cup of kindness in celebration of 2016, as it brings you the last blog post roundup of the year.
Off the Kuff had some thoughts on the primary in CD29 between Rep. Gene Green and Adrian Garcia.
Libby Shaw, contributing to Daily Kos, insists that Texas lawmakers must be held accountable for their bad decisions and blatant bigotry with regard to health care in the state. The Texas Blues: Living in a place run by GOP jerks, saboteurs and spiteful bigots.
People are starting to get the fact that the only practical alternative for progressives -- once Bernie Sanders is eliminated from contention for the Democratic nomination -- is a vote for the Green Party's Jill Stein, writes PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.
SocraticGadfly notes that if the Paris climate change deal has any hope of being real, and not just warm-fuzzies aspirational, we need negative carbon emissions — and now.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notes Greg Abbott goes for a two-fer in hate. No health care for you. What a guy.
Neil at All People Have Value took a nice picture in Galveston. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
Egberto Willies says it's time to call out the pro-life faction on their opposition to Medicaid expansion.
TXsharon at Bluedaze wants the Big Gas Mafia and all of their shills to know that fracking other people's children isn't going to make their own children proud of what they do for a living.
The Lewisville Texan Journal reports on the citizen referendum that would institute a cite-and-release policy for possession of small quantities of marijuana.
Dos Centavos recounts a time in the recent past when the phrase "Happy Holidays" didn't evince so much hate from arch-conservatives.
nonsequiteuse, writing at BOR, calls for the Houston Chronicle to apologize to Mayor Annise Parker.
More great Texas blog posts here!
Progress Texas names their Top Ten Worst Texans of 2015, though how they stopped at only ten remains a mystery.
Lone Star Ma focuses on the fourth of the United Nations' new Sustainable Development Goals, an inclusive and quality education for all.
Rick Campbell tells the story of Texas City blues singer Charles Brown, and his original recording of "Please Come Home For Christmas", later made famous by The Eagles and Don Henley.
BOR points to the real culprits in the case of cancer patients losing insurance.
John Jacob and Jen Powis advocate for Texas's endangered wetlands.
Prairie Weather believes Trump has a fatal electoral flaw: his supporters love the demagoguery and the spectacle, but do not exhibit the capacity to caucus for for him in Iowa.
Somervell County Salon thanks HEB for prohibiting open carry in its Texas grocery stores.
When a cartoonist exploits Ted Cruz's children, it's shameless and inappropriate... but when Cruz does it, it's just fundraising, explains What Would Jack Do?
Grits for Breakfast names his top Texas criminal justices stories for 2015.
Rocket Kirchner at Dandelion Salad has the exclusive Socrates interview with Hillary Clinton.
And Fascist Dyke Motors culls out her sock drawer.
Off the Kuff had some thoughts on the primary in CD29 between Rep. Gene Green and Adrian Garcia.
Libby Shaw, contributing to Daily Kos, insists that Texas lawmakers must be held accountable for their bad decisions and blatant bigotry with regard to health care in the state. The Texas Blues: Living in a place run by GOP jerks, saboteurs and spiteful bigots.
People are starting to get the fact that the only practical alternative for progressives -- once Bernie Sanders is eliminated from contention for the Democratic nomination -- is a vote for the Green Party's Jill Stein, writes PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.
SocraticGadfly notes that if the Paris climate change deal has any hope of being real, and not just warm-fuzzies aspirational, we need negative carbon emissions — and now.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notes Greg Abbott goes for a two-fer in hate. No health care for you. What a guy.
Neil at All People Have Value took a nice picture in Galveston. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.
Egberto Willies says it's time to call out the pro-life faction on their opposition to Medicaid expansion.
TXsharon at Bluedaze wants the Big Gas Mafia and all of their shills to know that fracking other people's children isn't going to make their own children proud of what they do for a living.
The Lewisville Texan Journal reports on the citizen referendum that would institute a cite-and-release policy for possession of small quantities of marijuana.
Dos Centavos recounts a time in the recent past when the phrase "Happy Holidays" didn't evince so much hate from arch-conservatives.
nonsequiteuse, writing at BOR, calls for the Houston Chronicle to apologize to Mayor Annise Parker.
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More great Texas blog posts here!
Progress Texas names their Top Ten Worst Texans of 2015, though how they stopped at only ten remains a mystery.
Lone Star Ma focuses on the fourth of the United Nations' new Sustainable Development Goals, an inclusive and quality education for all.
Rick Campbell tells the story of Texas City blues singer Charles Brown, and his original recording of "Please Come Home For Christmas", later made famous by The Eagles and Don Henley.
BOR points to the real culprits in the case of cancer patients losing insurance.
John Jacob and Jen Powis advocate for Texas's endangered wetlands.
Prairie Weather believes Trump has a fatal electoral flaw: his supporters love the demagoguery and the spectacle, but do not exhibit the capacity to caucus for for him in Iowa.
Somervell County Salon thanks HEB for prohibiting open carry in its Texas grocery stores.
When a cartoonist exploits Ted Cruz's children, it's shameless and inappropriate... but when Cruz does it, it's just fundraising, explains What Would Jack Do?
Grits for Breakfast names his top Texas criminal justices stories for 2015.
Rocket Kirchner at Dandelion Salad has the exclusive Socrates interview with Hillary Clinton.
And Fascist Dyke Motors culls out her sock drawer.
