O'Rourke and Democrats boosting Democrat Eliz Markowitz who founded Powered by the People last month to fund Texas Democrats, told crowd Jan 10 that he had found purpose and function again through the District 28 race.. ..…
By placing restrictions on early voting, AUSTIN The Texas Democratic Party asked federal judge Wednesday to block new state law it says Republicans passed with the goal of disenfranchising thousands of college students.. ..…
State and Democratic groups are suing Texas in federal court, law they say limits the availability of early voting, particularly for college students.. ..…
The money will support the descendants of 272 slaves that the in 1838, when finances were dire, and will provide funding for health clinics and schools in the impacted communities, according to The New York Times. ..…
Declines Democratic turnout and support rates among key constituencies Florida and Great Lakes states magnified Trump's ability to motivate new voters and to convince number of former Obama voters to back his message on the economy, immigration, elites and the media, and racial and gender divisions in the..…
FairVote, organization dedicated to electoral reforms, tracked public campaigning in the election and found that apart from private fundraisers or studio appearances, that were deemed as competitive... ..…
But Texas Democrats are just nine seats away from denying from Republicans full control over the next round of redistricting — and with it the next decade of Texas politics. . ..…
Beto O'Rourke speaks during the session at Texas Democratic Convention on June 22, 2018, Fort Worth, Texas ( AP Richard W. ..…
For Arizona, Georgia and Texas, Democrats did begin to see partial gains in the 2018 elections, populous suburbs began moving towards Democratic candidates. ..…
Sullivan wrote on Twitter that Texas Democrats are trying to victimize him with a frivolous lawsuit. ..…
Texas Democrats were quick to cheer the news that Ratcliffe would no longer be elevated to in Trump administration... ..…
WASHINGTON — Interlaced with 76 mentions of impeachment, House Judiciary Committee asked federal judge Friday to let them access jury material from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.. ..…
Permanent Fund for Equity and Excellence, tying strings to that money to ensure schools, districts, make efforts to drive out disparities education funding and outcomes and focus resources on schools with high concentrations of students from low-income families.. ..…
1Large majorities of Americans say the tone and nature of political debate in United States has become more recent years. ..…
In a Quinnipiac poll from early June, 60 percent of Texas Democrats said they preferred that O’Rourke suspend his presidential campaign and run against Senator John Cornyn instead. ..…
A bloc of Republican attorneys general bring their lawsuits in, say, the 5th US Circuit Court in Texas. Democrats choose either New York or the 9th US Circuit on the West Coast, which they perceive to be friendlier. . ..…
Texas: Democrats are nine seats away from a majority in the Texas state House. . ..…
For years, Texas Democrats have waited for a surge that would finally make a deep-red state competitive — and they nearly scored that long-sought victory in 2018, when Sen. ..…
TEHRAN - Presidential Beto O'Rourke denounced President Donald Trump's announcement that the US will send 1,500 troops to Middle East on Saturday and questioned the administration's claim of threat from Iranian forces to American forces already stationed in the area.. ..…
Texas notoriously anti- LGBTQ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he'd open investigation into religious discrimination against the food chain.. ..…
WASHINGTON EL PASO, Texas The US government cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras on Saturday after President Donald Trump blasted Central American countries for sending migrants to United States and threatened to shutter US- Mexico border... ..…
Joaquin Castro, 48, who is beginning his fourth term as part of Texas in U.S. ..…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who spent her weekend trashing Ronald Reagan for a capacity crowd of liberals in Austin, Texas. . Democrats and their media allies have spent years building this bonfire of racial resentment. ..…
I never met John Dingell, the congressman from Michigan who died last month. ..…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Tuesday that failed Stacey Abrams will deliver Democratic Party's official response next week to President Trump's State of Union address.. ..…
O'Rourke has been accused with voting with Republicans on some issues, and January Sunday New York Times had front page story on his refusal to endorse Democratic in Hillary Clinton won in 2016 Democrat lost by less than 1000 votes.. ..…
Texas Democrats need to win only nine more seats in the state House to gain control — which they haven’t held since 2002 — and party officials told NBC News they are optimistic. . ..…
Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels, progressive from North Carolina, had to call out the marines to patrol the streets of Philadelphia, and naval troops, over the strenuous objections of the mayor, were used to crush the fabled red light district of Storyville, New Orleans, November 1917.. ..…
Print this article.. oters in both Missouri and Arkansas backed hiking their wage through measures on Tuesday's election ballots, becoming the ninth and 10th states to raise their minimum wages via ballot in the last three election cycles.. ..…
In Texas, Democrats Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia became the first Latinas to represent the state in the House. . . ..…
These candidates are looking to fill Bob Goodlatte's seat in House... ..…
The resource for political betting... « The end of the court of Sessions.. ..…
The order creates White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives that will report to Bush and work to clear barriers preventing religious and charitable groups from receiving federal grants.. ..…
WASHINGTON - In victory for churches and other religious groups that do business with the government, President Bush signed yesterday allowing money to flow to organizations that discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.. ..…
These attacks and bullying tactics against law abiding gun owners and permit-to-carry holders have been ramping up at alarming rate, and there's no doubt that the adults perpetrating this bullying instilling that same bullying in their children, attacks and bullying.. ..…
While most political handicappers predict Democratic Party will win sweeping victories in November mid-term elections, Texas Senate race would produce challenge. ..…
At their state convention last month, Texas Republicans voted for the first time to make medical marijuana a plank in their platform, the Texas Tribune reported, although this was still a step far short desired by Texas Democrats, who voted for full legalization on their party’s platform...…
AUSTIN, Texas — Democrats are hoping to pump up Latino turnout with the release of a new Spanish-language television ad Tuesday that is airing in five states. . ..…
Santa Claus may be coming to town, and in one Texas home, it seems Grinch got there first.. ..…
posted by Tom Scharbach on September 23, 2011. ..…