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Some very encouraging news today out of Texas: x 🚨New Poll – TEXAS🚨Biden 49 / Trump 48Hegar 46 / Cornyn 48https://t.co/OCRMOhwGdJ— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) October 26, 2020 Click here for the full results. Yesterday’s UT Tyler poll showed a tightening race: In his bid for a fourth term in...

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  • October 26, 2020

Here’s the latest news today out of Texas courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: In the U.S. Senate race in Texas, incumbent Republican John Cornyn leads Democrat M.J. Hegar among likely voters, 49 – 43 percent. Seven percent are undecided. On September 24th, Cornyn had 50 percent support and Hegar...

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  • October 21, 2020

From The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board: “I work with people on a daily basis to pass legislation who I know get up in the morning trying to figure out how they can defeat me in my next election,” he told the editorial board in an hour-long interview last week. “…...

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  • October 9, 2020

The Houston Chronicle has a must read piece out right now about Texas: Texas remained the country’s largest red state in 2018. Republicans have won every statewide race in Texas since 1998, and a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won Texas since Jimmy Carter in 1976. But for 18 months, statewide...

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  • October 8, 2020

From The Houston Chronicle: The Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee has raised over $3.6 million in just under three months, a massive cash infusion as the party pushes to take control of the lower chamber for the first time since 2002. The $3.6 million haul, which came between July 1...

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  • October 5, 2020
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From Emily Singer at The American Independent: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said Thursday that preexisting health conditions are not as big a deal as Democrats are making them seem, using one of the most popular provisions in the Affordable Care Act to attack Democrats. “The left, including Joe Biden in...

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  • October 2, 2020

Some big news today out of Texas: x Donations are still coming in, but we couldn't wait to share this with you. We've raised over $13.5 million this quarter — nearly 8 times what we raised in our last best fundraising quarter. The polls are neck and neck, and we're...

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  • September 30, 2020

Some good news today out of Texas: x Texas Poll Presidential:Trump 46% (+1)Biden 45%#TXSen: Cornyn (R-inc) 40% (+2)Hegar (D) 38%@DataProgress (LV, 9/15-22)— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) September 25, 2020 For this November’s election, Biden trails Trump by 1 point in Texas. Senator John Cornyn maintains a 2-point lead over his Democratic...

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  • September 25, 2020

That’s pathetic: The Texans for a Conservative Majority, a political action committee that supported other Republican super PACs, superimposed a photo of Democrat MJ Hegar on a dark background with the caption, “HARD LEFT HEGAR.” The photo, which was noticeably featured at the top of the group's website, shows the...

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  • September 25, 2020
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From The Houston Chronicle: Texas has once again shattered vote registration records, adding more than 1.5 million voters since the last presidential election. Texas now surpassed 16.6 million voters, according to the latest numbers announced Tuesday by Texas Secretary of State Ruth R. Hughs. And there are still almost two...

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  • September 22, 2020

More good news today out of Texas: x BREAKING: A new poll shows us just TWO POINTS DOWN! Our momentum keeps growing. Chip in now to defeat John Cornyn: https://t.co/nMcT1Aa91Y pic.twitter.com/hRvqNVAkT4 — MJ Hegar (@mjhegar) September 21, 2020 Here are the full results. From the poll: FYI: x TEXASTrump 48%...

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  • September 21, 2020

Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign, flush with cash and lifted by polls that show that Texas is essentially tied, is hiring on 13 more staff members. http://www.texastribune.org/… The Democratic nominee’s latest hires, shared first with The Texas Tribune, include several experienced Democratic operatives from the state. They include Dallas Jones, a Houston...

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  • September 15, 2020

Some more good news out of Texas today courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: x Another poll confirms what we already knew: our momentum is REAL and we're gaining on John Cornyn! 💪 Many Texans are still undecided, and we've got 56 days to reach them! If we have resources to...

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  • September 8, 2020

After all the stupidity and incompetence, Trump really does sound like he says things with no filter. And even as he says he said no such thing, his excuses are even stranger, and his lies are getting amplified by the Russians, again. A new report details multiple instances of Donald Trump allegedly...

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  • September 4, 2020

From Salon: Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who has repeatedly expressed doubt about the science behind the coronavirus pandemic, has political and lobbying ties to Gilead, the pharmaceutical giant behind COVID treatment remdesivir, which lobbied the Senate as lawmakers debated the CARES Act this March. Multiple former Cornyn aides, including a former chief of...

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  • September 2, 2020

So we all know he’s an idiot: In an interview with KVUE on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he supports the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, but it's important to make sure students feel safe in classrooms. “I think starting slowly with online learning, but then maybe transitioning...

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  • August 20, 2020

Kudos to The Dallas Observer for bringing this to our attention: x .@mjhegar is Chuck Schumer's hand-picked candidate who works for her party bosses, not Texans. #TXSen #txpolitics pic.twitter.com/u94gfbUiCG— The Senate Majority (@NRSC) July 15, 2020 And of course, Hegar had the perfect response: x I don't doubt that 2020...

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  • August 12, 2020

U.S. Senate candidate, MJ Hegar (D. TX), had some harsh words to say today in the Rio Grande Guardian about Governor Greg Abbott’s (R.TX) abysmal decision to re-open Texas’ businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic: “I am a proponent of small business. Small businesses got hurt hardest. As the governor’s stay...

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  • August 4, 2020

Less than four months, actually, but who’s counting? Well, I am. I may put together a “Goodbye, Asshole” advent calendar that counts down to Election Day. Wouldn’t that be fun? Sen. @tedcruz: "The left, it's not going to stop at anything to come after Texas and come after this country."...

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  • July 20, 2020

Fresh off her recent primary win, U.S. Senate candidate, MJ Hegar (D. TX), is ready to attack in her upcoming race against U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R. TX): x YouTube Video On Wednesday, the day after her victory in a closer-than-expected runoff election, MJ Hegar, Texas Democrats’ choice to deny...

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  • July 19, 2020

Someone need to keep this idiot off of Twitter: x Which ones? https://t.co/E1yuUCqwph— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) July 12, 2020 Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has questioned what experts he should listen to amid the COVID-19 pandemic as coronavirus continues to blight Texas—with speculation it could be forced to return to lockdown to stem infections. On...

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  • July 13, 2020

From Huffington Post: x Here's the TV ad that @JohnCornyn's campaign is going up with tomorrow, similar to the attack ad that it first ran against @RoyceWestTX last summer: pic.twitter.com/05NBUzO12U— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) July 9, 2020 Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars meddling in...

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  • July 13, 2020

So this is an actual thing:   “Listen Hellboy.” So began one of the weirdest episodes in what has been one of the weirdest years in politics, well, ever. The author of those words was none other than Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who was responding to a tweet from...

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  • June 16, 2020

Here’s the latest news out of Texas courtesy of Quinnipiac University’s latest poll: President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are locked in a very tight race in Texas,with Trump receiving 44 percent of the vote and Biden receiving 43 percent in a general election matchup,according to a...

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  • June 3, 2020

Some big news today out of Texas: x At a time when working families are being squeezed to their breaking point, we need fighters in the Senate like @MJHegar who embody strength, courage, and an unwavering commitment to putting people first. I'm proud to endorse her in the fight to...

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  • May 19, 2020

Asshole: If a Supreme Court vacancy opens up this year, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says the Senate has a “responsibility” to consider a nomination from President Donald Trump. But in 2016, Cornyn joined the GOP in refusing to consider any Obama nominees because “the presidential election is well underway.” With 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader...

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  • May 8, 2020

Kudos to Emily Singer at The American Independent for calling out this moron: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday questioned a study by U.S. researchers that found a malaria drug Donald Trump has been pushing as a “miracle” cure for COVID-19 is no miracle at all — and might lead...

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  • April 23, 2020

Kudos to Brad Reed at Raw Story for bringing this to our attention: x #CoronavirusCornyn doesn't mention 26,211 Americans are dead. I guess that's not important. He also doesn't mention https://t.co/7WKPbPKSIE— xxxJDxxx (@xxxJDxxx3) April 15, 2020 Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Wednesday tried to spread some purportedly encouraging news about...

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  • April 17, 2020

The latest nonsense from John Cornyn (R-TX) x You know, it’s a pandemic. You really want to be on the wrong side of this? — Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) March 25, 2020 x Blah blah blah https://t.co/zkJ1fsKMGc — Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) March 23, 2020 THIS IS HIS OPPONENT x Gov....

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  • March 25, 2020

This fucking idiot is making Ted Cruz look like the smart one: x Sen. John Cornyn: “China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats & snakes & dogs & things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has...

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  • March 19, 2020

Seriously, what a fucking moron: x Be smart; don’t panic. We will get us through this #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/SyvOAWXItK— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) March 14, 2020 Texas Senator John Cornyn was in a bar enjoying a cold Corona over the weekend as the spread of CORVID-19 intensified and the country began shutting...

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  • March 17, 2020

I figured we could all use some good news here so I wanted to spread the word. First, here’s some very encouraging news out of Texas yesterday: x News: @MJHegar raised over $1 million in the second quarter, her campaign tells @TexasTribune. She announced her campaign April 23, so that's...

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  • July 2, 2019

Yes, this actually happened: x Hollywood Hegar supporter and video guest star, Patton Oswalt, has tweeted some offensive comments over the years, reply A or B to let us know which one is more offensive to you: pic.twitter.com/gXgPvstK6V — Team Cornyn (@TeamCornyn) April 23, 2019   These days, fierce Twitter...

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  • April 26, 2019

MJ Hegar is running against (R) John Carter if Texas’s 31st congressional district, just north of Austin. Carter ran his mouth. I think MJ’s response is gonna garner her some votes: x Democratic House candidate MJ Hegar from Texas responded to her Republican opponent comparing her campaign to a war with...

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  • November 3, 2018