Luckily you don't have to register as a party-affiliate in TX. You're then free to vote for @DelilahforTexas & other Independent/3rd party candidates.
— Ironic Icons Art (@Ironic_IconsArt) January 24, 2022
Better yet, run for office as either! https://t.co/pWUKlUAMq7
Texas state trial court keeps injunction against filing fees for minor parties in place https://t.co/KM2RgRuOhM #TXLege #TX2022 @TXGreens @LPTexas pic.twitter.com/vTpFGZ2PmN
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) January 26, 2022
Frequent BAN contributor Jim Riley sends along a link to the court order and also speculates about where the case might go from here. Nothing in the state's legacy media that I have found about this story yet (as usual).
So it's on to the usual bad-behaving suspects in the duopoly.
Is Gov. Abbott pitting Texas parents against teachers? Education will be the wedge issue this election cycle #txlege #txed #TellEWA https://t.co/dlMjtrI9OZ
— Eva-Marie Ayala (@EvaMarieAyala) January 26, 2022
A reminder that @GovAbbott didn’t do jack shit after 10 students and educators were shot and killed inside Santa Fe, Texas, high school, and 13 more were wounded, in 2018. In fact, he’s only further weakened gun laws. #txlege pic.twitter.com/Cn7hnUGZ8s
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 26, 2022
.@GovAbbott "seems to be hedging his re-election and potential presidential aspirations on his far-right-wing base and their concerns about “critical race theory”, school library books, and hopes of vouchers in Texas," writes @Coalition4TxEd. #txlege #txedhttps://t.co/1Lr7j40W8m
— RA News (@RANewsTX) January 26, 2022
Like many Republican politicians in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott loves taking shots at California for its regulations, high taxes and liberal politics. But he’s got no problem taking their money for his re-election campaign. https://t.co/9AkkpA0kJW
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) January 28, 2022
Texas's lieutenant governor is totally unhinged pic.twitter.com/qtIdGagn8j
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2022
AG Paxton is angry the Court of Criminal Appeals voided a law that let his agency unilaterally prosecute election crimes ... but did he cross an ethical line when he urged supporters to pressure the judges to rule in his favor as the case proceeds? 1/10 https://t.co/KGl6sd3JW7
— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) January 26, 2022
"some of the calls were spurred by an automated phone message from Houston activist Dr. Steven Hotze that were sent to tens of thousands of Republicans statewide by his political action committee..." via @taygoldenstein https://t.co/C0diMIbj2A via @houstonchron #txlege #tx2022
— Jim Henson (@jamesrhenson) January 26, 2022
Lone Star politics in “Bob’s Breakdown:” East Texas rumble in attorney general’s race just one of AG Ken Paxton’s challenges in March primary, @RobertTGarrett writes. #txlege #Campaign2022 #2022Election #TexasPrimary #KenPaxton #LouieGohmert #Texashttps://t.co/ZQmq5HjhIB pic.twitter.com/oeMdwJmHnI
— John Gravois (@Grav1) January 27, 2022
So @MillerForTexas thinks assistance for AA farmers is prejudice….
— BurtFromEulogy (@txmilligan) January 24, 2022
What a moron pic.twitter.com/pa28pZn7qz
The retiring senator said in a sworn declaration that the redrawing of District 10 violated the Voting Rights Act, thereby weakening Black and Hispanic voting power. https://t.co/XPvbtCz2Xn
— Fort Worth Star-Telegram (@startelegram) January 27, 2022
.@kseliger on whether he didn't run for re-election based on the @BakerInstitute at @RiceUniversity's rankings of conservative to liberal legislators:
— RA News (@RANewsTX) January 27, 2022
"I wouldn't compose a grocery list based upon what Rice University thinks." #txlege #txed #redistricting pic.twitter.com/DWcky5zBWT
Seliger is a previously-undisclosed member of the large, bipartisan caucus which looks askance at the work of Dr. Mark Jones.
#TrumpRally in Conroe Saturday includes several @TexasGOP candidates https://t.co/p1PJHMn05u via @chron #HouNews #TXLege #TX2022 #LockThemAllUp
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) January 27, 2022
*Whew* the stench. And the fallout from the Lege is claiming victims.
He’s 95 years old, a WW II vet, and always votes. But now he can’t get a mail ballot because Texas doesn’t have a drivers license number or SSN on file for him (when he registered it wasn’t required) & it can’t now be added retroactively to his file. https://t.co/EGr63QVeqR
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) January 28, 2022
Books removed from the @granburyisd High School library are tagged “Krause’s List,” referring to lame-duck @RepMattKrause’s list simply inquiring about books involving sex or race. Krause is now a candidate for Tarrant County criminal district attorney. https://t.co/RtwwPWb0DB
— Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal (@BudKennedy) January 27, 2022
'We are seeing a new level of despair': Latinas decry impact of Texas abortion law https://t.co/eihFrhIzWO #TXLege
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) January 26, 2022
That's my segue to the criminal, legal, and social justice updates.
Texas Supreme Court sets oral arguments for Feb. 24 on SB 8, the state's restrictive abortion law, based on question from the 5th Circuit Court on whether state officials or agencies can enforce SB 8.#txlege pic.twitter.com/0JwNXyQjtz
— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) January 26, 2022
UPDATE: Facing boycott calls, Pepsi defends donation to Texas Republican Party https://t.co/PMpJhIxnZt #boycottpepsi
— IndependentLeft.news & Leftists.today (@IndLeftNews) January 26, 2022
On this #HolocaustRemembranceDay, I should remind you that on March 7th, 2021, @MagnoliaISD was busted sending racist and antisemitic death threats towards Blacks, LGBTQS, and Jews. #NeverAgain #WeRemember #BlackLivesMatter #Racism #Xenophobia #Texas #Education #Auschwitz pic.twitter.com/zhVUJHWtgo
— A Lefty Gamer (@A_Lefty_Gamer) January 27, 2022
A new study from Rice measured the impact of COVID deaths at the beginning of the pandemic and found that not only did Black and Brown people die at a disproportionate rate, they also bore most of the economic brunt of those deathshttps://t.co/0KUNxDG7xZ
— Sam Gonzalez Kelly (@sgonzalezkelly) January 26, 2022
.@POTUS continues to fight us in court and refuses to #EndTitle42, and keep his promise of making the US a more welcoming place for people seeking asylum.https://t.co/lZ9RJw4TNW
— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) January 26, 2022
A federal judge invalidated the U.S. Interior Department's November oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico for failing to properly account for its climate impact, according to court filings https://t.co/G3uLSuGmxM pic.twitter.com/ODaza1J6xZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 28, 2022
And there's my segue to the environmental news.
For @OneBreathHOU, I'm writing a series on how TCEQ's policies affect the lives and well being of communities in TX. First stop: Port Arthur, where a cluster of some of the largest industrial plants in the country are surrounded by only 12 air monitors. https://t.co/BPfKYe2Djr
— Amal Ahmed (@amalahmed214) January 27, 2022
BREAKING: report finds @txrrc is allowing gas well operators to poison workers, communities, and the environment by failing to enforce laws regarding deadly sour gas. Workers and communities next to operations are at risk.
— Earthworks (@Earthworks) January 27, 2022
More at https://t.co/z12TB9ZOCt pic.twitter.com/tse4w8y5Yh
While @ExxonMobil touts net-zero promise, its huge plastics complex goes online in Corpus Christi, TX https://t.co/5wzc1NQEwe via @DeSmog
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) January 27, 2022
#EPA will send its concerns to #TCEQ about the #UnionPacific site, where workers decades ago used creosote to treat rail ties. Creosote is considered a probable carcinogen and seeped into water & soil in #Houston’s predominantly Black #FifthWard.#HouNewshttps://t.co/9zYYDTslFL
— Anna Núñez (@nunez_anna) January 26, 2022
And a larger-than-regular collection of calm-me-downs.
Join @henrycmagowan, @SkyeWallin, @marwilliamson and @humford to discuss lessons learned from the 2020 asymmetrical campaigns of Williamson, Senator Mike Gravel, and Andrew Yang at #SXSW. https://t.co/S4CIuEBiHF pic.twitter.com/wlqr6EtWwD
— SXSW (@sxsw) January 26, 2022
How King of the Hill, in all its massive brilliance, helped an Englishman understand Texas. And, in particular, Dallas. Or, more precisely, Garlington. Sorry. https://t.co/mPB83kdUPQ
— D Magazine (@DMagazine) January 25, 2022
In his latest book, UT Austin professor Leonard Moore offers six specific steps that white Americans (and other non-Black people) can take to improve America’s racial climate. https://t.co/UGURVGCZWj
— Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) January 25, 2022
Texas French Bread Bakery fundraising account tops $100K in less than 24 hours https://t.co/g0wvHCMgjt pic.twitter.com/6AXiAy4rwS
— KXAN News (@KXAN_News) January 26, 2022
The Comanche Medicine Mounds are a rare vestige of the mighty tribe that once controlled Texas.
— Texas Highways Magazine (@TexasHighways) January 27, 2022
Journalist W. K. Stratton visits the Big Mound as he traces the history of the Comanche with descendants of Quanah Parker. https://t.co/jiU3JNYFCP
...but in all seriousness, as the Spider Lady and her fellow arachnid advocates point out, spiders eat "400 to 800 million tons" of roaches, ants, and other pests every year, while there hasn't been a black widow fatality since 1983 https://t.co/HepgY9pWeo
— Rose (@rosecahalan) January 27, 2022
Help kick off the start of the @SanAntonioRodeo and celebrate our city's roots as a cowboy town at the Western Heritage Parade and Cattle Drive!https://t.co/MnoPYH73d3 pic.twitter.com/gHLENR4o6y
— Visit San Antonio (@VisitSanAntonio) January 27, 2022
