Alex Mealer’s Platform Has One Big Problem: Reality Alexandra Mealer is not hiding what she wants to be. Her campaign website calls the newly drawn Texas 9th Congressional District the
Every election season, political campaigns repeat the ritual. Volunteers gather at headquarters, get voter lists, and head into neighborhoods to knock on doors. It feels productive. It is personal. And
As of 6:30 a.m. Central, these are the strongest national-reading signals I’m seeing — not an exact traffic ranking:
Help Us — or Stop Taking Our Money Washington wants the states to handle more disasters. Our investigation found states borrowing money, draining reserves, and even preparing to replace FEMA
Donald Trump made Americans a very simple promise. On the day he returned to the White House, January 20, 2025, he said: “We will bring prices down.” Today we’ll discuss
Look at the babies in the illustration. They are in diapers because some children caught in America’s immigration detention system really are that young. The two guards arguing over who
I have finally figured out Donald Trump. Mark Twain has come back from the dead. Not literally, of course. I am a lawyer, and even I am not prepared to
https://indd.adobe.com/view/6d07a0b2-1d37-43ad-b959-51fa09bfaf97 They Were Already Americans Company E, the Mexican-American Texans Who Went to War The 141st Infantry Regiment — “First Texas” The 141st Infantry Regiment was part of the 36th
When do we lose the hyphen? One of the Twenty-Seven When the survivors of Company E answered roll call after the Rapido River disaster in January 1944, only 27 enlisted
Company E Goes to War By the time Company E left Texas, its men had already proven they could shoot. They had achieved 100 percent weapons qualification. Their rifle team
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent much of his political career surrounded by the language of God, marriage, and conservative family values. Now those words are following him into
A new Texas Tribune story from San Antonio describes something that is becoming increasingly important across Texas: immigrants are changing the way they live because they fear that an ordinary
Gov. Greg Abbott says “Texans must come first.” I hope he means it. I don’t think he does. Texas is in the middle of an enormous data-center boom. The projects
1. Karoline Leavitt Is Leaving the White HouseTrump’s 28-year-old press secretary will leave at the end of August and become an outside adviser; it is AP’s No. 1 most-read story
There will be three parts to the story; this is the first part, and the second and third parts include where an all-American Japanese unit comes to help the 141st.
I have known Orlando Sanchez for more than 20 years. He is a nice guy. I have nothing personal against him. But nice is not enough. We already have a
Who Told ICE Where the Witness Was? The most troubling question in the case of ICE arresting a Houston crime witness is the simplest one: How did ICE know where
We don’t have to look far to find what REAL MEN DO. A real man would have done what George W. Bush did on September 11. Bush was told Washington
