Been playing catch up with my e-mails due to the holidays and I have also been recovering from a sinus infection. Received this e-mail from former Congressman and Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): “I’ve spent these last two days in Fort Bend county, Texas
Received this e-mail today from former Congressman and Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): Last year 17 Texas State House Republicans won their election by less than 10 points. We can flip these seats by reaching un-registered Democrats. There are almost 90,000 people in these
Received this e-mail today from former U.S. Rep. and Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), in support of Eliz Markowitz’s (D. TX) campaign: I’m writing about an important race here in Texas. With our help, Eliz Markowitz can win a special runoff election and increase
Actions speak volumes over words, and the punches thrown by the Democratic presidential candidates at Elizabeth Warren tonight scream, “She’s the frontrunner!” I don’t give a shit how often they say, “Polls don’t matter! I meet all kinds of people out on the campaign trail…blah, blah,
Safe Bets For Tonight: It’s hosted by CNN and NYT, so the questions to the candidates are going to suck. The moderators want this to become a professional wrestling match, so look for lots of questions crafted to spark fights among the candidates. I predict
Democrats running for president have a new message for the news media: We’re not going to take it anymore. No longer willing to stoically suffer through bad, misleading press coverage, Democrats are borrowing a page from Republicans by going public with their complaints and demanding journalists
The NYT — yes, even though they suck, they have this interesting article — has an article up on the early caucus and primary states and the Democratic presidential candidates gound game in each. Well, they focus more on Iowa than any place else, but they have
There is a Fox News( cough on the word “News”) poll and a SurveyUSA poll that have come in. I don’t have a direct link to the SurveyUSA poll, so I will give you the 538 page. Both get A ratings from 538, and for
Can we agree that money in politics, especially from corporations and oligarchs, is not healthy for our democratic process? But we have a political system that equates “free speech” with how much money you can donate to a political candidate or campaign. Until that system
A little while ago, I wrote about how the former U.S. Senate Majority & Minority Leader, Harry Reid (D. NV), gave the 2020 Democratic candidates a new litmus test when it gets to getting shit done once elected: Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this
Beto O'Rourke's presidential campaign made some news this week when it evicted Breitbart News' Joel Pollack from a private event. The right-wing site with white nationalist loyalties hyped the kerfuffle as an attack on the free press, claiming Pollack is a news reporter. And lots
Former U.S. Senate Majority & Minority Leader, Harry Reid (D. NV), sat down with NPR yesterday in an interview and continued to push an issue that needs to be emphasized in this primary: abolishing the filibuster. It’s the only way to get progressive policy pushed
Received this e-mail from former Congressman, U.S. Senate candidate and Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), in support of JD Scholten’s (D. IA-04) congressional campaign: JD Scholten (D. IA-04) Steve King is Congress’ most out-in-the-open bigot. He’s well known for embracing the term “white supremacist.” This week, he
www.uttyler.edu/… Two Presidential polls for Texas show the Democratic candidates doing rather well in the Lone Star state against Donald Trump who won there by 9 points in 2016. They both show Sanders and Biden leading Trump by small amounts. The polls disagree somewhat on
Campaign Action In order for America to forcefully fight the unfolding terror wave hitting this country, it's time for the press to talk about radicalized, homegrown right-wing sleeper cells in the U.S. It's also past time for the media to accurately label Trump as a racist,
Kudos to Texan Caitlin Cruz at Splinter for calling out her U.S. Senator on this: x I genuinely appreciate this note. We need more off this: John, it’s Chris Murphy. I am so so sorry about El Paso and I am pulling for everyone (including you) right
Received this e-mail from former Presidential Candidate & Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) in support of Dan McCready’s (D. NC-09) campaign: Dan McCready (D. NC-09) We’re more than 15 months away from the presidential election. But in North Carolina, an important special election is just seven weeks
www.chron.com/… www.texastribune.org/… Texas Republican Congressman Pete Olson who represents a rapidly changing district south and west of Houston will not run for reelection in 2020. The congressman from Surgarland,Texas said he wants to spend more time with his family. The district, which once elected former Republican leader
Since the first set of Democratic Presidential Debates, it’s been a rocky road for centrists. The heavy weight champ of centrism, Joe Biden, took some hits. And while some Biden supporters have been saying, “Well, it was just one poll!,” subsequent polls have shown that Biden
When Beto O’Rourke announced he would run for president, I was genuinely excited. He was my top choice. Yet Beto made a fatal mistake: He decided to engage in what he referred to as an “anti-media” strategy. In other words, he refused to go on national
