Here at Texas Outlaw Writers World Headquarters, we had decided to pause podcasting on a regular basis. Between day jobs, other projects, and writing the newsletter content, producing a weekly podcast proved to be a pretty big chore. Especially when it came to booking the A-list guests that we wanted

This week's podcast can be found here on  Spotify, or you can listen to it (and subscribe to it) on your usual podcast player. The Outlaws meet up after a long holiday break to review the recent State of the Union address and how that looked for progressives

Texas prides itself on being the #1 oil-producing state. They're leading the country in adding renewable energy projects. And yes, there can be tension between those factions, (but traditional energy companies are not going to leave money on the table when it comes to new technology.) But Mike

Is the Big Bend region the Wild, Wild West? Is there an immigrant "invasion" of criminals and drug smugglers? Or is it gentrifying into one big bougie artsie-fartsie compound? Rob D'Amico lives there, and writes there.

Edgy video ads, attack billboards, & a massive Democratic political organization all birthed from one angry Texas mama. Gov. Abbott won the midterms, but that won't stop Nancy Thompson from coming after Texas Republicans. Strategists all over the country applauded the ironically named "MAGA" PAC.

The 2022 Midterm Election Returns are (kinda-sorta-mostly) in. The Outlaws hash out the goings-on with Dr. Michael Adams, director of the Executive Masters of Public. Administration program at Texas Southern University. Dr. Adams specializes in electoral politics, redistricting, and voting rights. We talk about the (surprise!) absence of a national

"Having worked in the business for the last 2+ decades, I see too many people now running for office just to become social media personalities. Generate income from becoming celebrities, move on to some other money-making venture after they leave office or even while they're in office."

Margaret Justus, Gov. Ann Richards former deputy press secretary, talks with the Outlaws about the Ann Richards Legacy Project's new book, "The One Ann Only: Wit and Wisdom from Texas Governor Ann Richards"

"We can only write 10% of what we know. If we wrote 20%, nobody would ever talk to us again, and 30%? There'd be contracts out on us."

"...from 2005 to 2013, we were able to pass incremental small but good legislation. With a coalition of Democrats and traditional Republicans, and then after the 2014 election cycle, it, it, it just was not possible to pass small but good incremental legislation."