There was a remarkable and blistering editorial published last week in the Longview News-Journal. The paper’s editorial board writes about an email distributed by JoAnn Fleming to members of the influential East Texas tea party group she leads, Grassroots America-We the People (GAWTP). In the email, Fleming complains of “the politics of personal destruction” as some […]
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Texas Rising, the Texas Freedom Network’s project to engage young people in the political process, relies on some incredible individuals doing great work on their college campuses and in their communities all across the state. We’d like to introduce you to some of these amazing young activists advocating for a better, more fair Texas. Today […]
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Violent weather and flooding have killed at least nine Texans since Friday. This month the Texas Supreme Court criticized the state’s broken and inequitable system for funding public schools but didn’t require the Legislature to change it. The state’s shockingly dysfunctional Child Protective Services is failing abused and neglected children. And the state’s attorney general is under indictment […]
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