Immigration "Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up" If your answers do not satisfy the law officer, you might be driven hundreds of miles to the border and ordered to get the hell out of Texas and don’t come back, unless you want to end up in prison. You are guilty of nothing more than looking downtrodden.
Immigration Strangers at the Gate "Whatever political points Abbott has scored with the Trumptocracy by relocating 50,000 immigrants to predominantly Democratically controlled cities, he has almost certainly inspired more than that number to make the trek toward Texas."
Immigration The Golden Door The president of Mexico was incensed. “No good person would do this,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily news conference Thursday. “This is inhumane, and no person should be treated like this.”
Immigration The North Bank of the Big River The Immigrants will keep coming. The only thing separating their misery from bright possibility is a river, a desert, and laws they don’t understand. They take their chances and trek northward. Our need for their labor is insatiable. Their dreams will not be thwarted.
Immigration The First Reich of Texas “The house that you live in will never fall down when you pity the stranger that stands at your gate.” - Lightfoot
Border The Coming Sadness In 1997, Esequiel Hernandez became the first American killed on native soil by this country’s military since the May 4, 1970, National Guard killings at Kent State during a Vietnam War protest. More American guns are pointing south along the border now. The odds go up daily for another tragedy.
Texas Politics The Border Lords "...every executive order by Greg Abbott, regarding the border with Mexico, increases the risk of an incident even more horrendous than the current humanitarian crisis on our doorstep."
Texas Politics No Bugles, No Drums "Ten members of the Texas National Guard have died in the Texas governor’s multi-billion-dollar presidential campaign commercial called “Operation Lone Star,” and Abbott has offered them anonymity, not honor, for their deaths."
Religion The Least of These “The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respected stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges.” - President George Washington
Texas Politics Living La Politica Loca "There may still be some who think that Roe vs Wade is the pitching match up for tonight's Astros game, but for everyone else, it has been a firestorm that has motivated women voters like nothing since Ted Cruz's face first appeared on a campaign poster."
Texas Politics A Letter from Texas "Fascism in Texas is no longer creeping. It is up and running with Olympian legs."
Texas Politics Governor Death Nothing reaches his dark heart. How many Texans who need help and won’t be able to get it because of Abbott’s policies, and then will end up hurting themselves or others?
national politics Honey, If Tucker's Looking Quizzical, I'm Worried Throughout our history, we alternate between greatness and shamefulness. Slavery, and then the war to end it. Emancipation, and then Jim Crow. The Indian wars and, well casinos, I guess.
Texas Politics The Abbott Crime Cartel "Greg Abbott’s hollow man gestures are designed only to draw attention to his political aspirations and have zero intent on managing a crisis."
Texas Politics Got a Problem? Get a Bus Governor Gregg Abbott’s Immigrant Bus Plan; Solution or Stunt? Take a wild guess...