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Texas Democrats Shouldn't Rely on Demographics

Mark Yzaguirre | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Latinos, Texas, Politics, Texas Democrats, Latino Politics, Texas Observer, Hispanics, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Politics News
Mark Yzaguirre

For years, Democrats in Texas and outside of Texas have worked on the assumption that the rise of the Latino vote will inexorably turn Texas into a blue or at least a purple state.

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Michael Calderone

Will Rick Perry's Aggressive Texas Media Strategy Work Nationally?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Evan Smith, The Backstory, Video, Rick Perry Media, Politico, Texas Observer, Des Moines Register, Texas Tribune, Rick Perry Ben Bernanke, Elections 2012, Ben Bernanke, New Hampshire Union Leader, Rick Perry, Media News

NEW YORK -- While Texas Gov. Rick Perry has grabbed headlines (and the spotlight) from his Republican rivals all week, members of the Texas press corp...

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Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Teachers, Tax, YASHA LEVINE, Texas, Progressive, Texas Observer, Campus Progress, Debt, RESOURCE GENERATION, Jamelle Bouie, Dave Gilson, Working in These Times, Layoffs, Tapped, PETE REDINGTON, ABBY RAPOPORT, Student Loan, JULIE MARGETTA MORGAN, KRISTY LEISSLE, The Nation, Farm, Mother Jones, YES! Magazine, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to I...

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Weekly Diaspora: Texas Excludes Low-Income Latinos from Census, Expedites Visas for Wealthy Mexican Immigrants

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: 2010 Census, Immigration Reform, Redistricting, Lamar Smith, Mexico, Texas, Immigration, Joe Barton, New America Media, The American Independent, Hidalgo County, Texas Observer, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Newly released census figures show that the Latino population in the United States surged by 43 per...

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Weekly Diaspora: Big Business Dictates Immigration Policy--At Workers' Expense

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russell Pearce, Department of Homeland Security, Bracero, Immigration Reform, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Immigration, New America Media, Arizona, Utah, In These Times, Texas Observer, Guest Worker Program, Seiu, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Arizona's business leaders, frustrated by the deep financial fallout of increasingly radical immigr...

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Weekly Audit: A Recall Fight Brewing in Wisconsin?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Democracy Now!, Police, Lauren Kelly, The Progressive, Save Our State, Responsible Budget Coalition, Public Employee, Jobs, Texas, Fire, Labor, Unemployment, 99ers, Wisconsin, Michigan Messenger, Spending Cuts, Matthew Rothschild, Scott Walker, Protest, Amy Goodman, Union, Texas Observer, Illinois, Ed Brayton, Economy, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Tens of thousands of people continue their peaceful occupation of the Wisconsin state capital to prote...

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Weekly Mulch: The Dirty Truth about Natural Gas and Energy Innovation

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Fracking, Energy Innovation, The Michigan Messenger, Epa, Renewable Energy, Texas, change.org, Safe Drinking Water Act, Diesel, Care2, Coal, Doe, Making Contact, Cane, Community-Led Groups, Wasps, Grist, Texas Observer, Americans for Energy Leadership, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger The argument against natural gas got a boost this week, when a congressional investigation turned up evide...

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Weekly Pulse: Bloomberg Shaking up Soda Pop with Politics

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Randall Terry, New York, Food Stamps, John Boehner, Mike Bloomberg, Texas, Feministing, Solitary Confinement, Choice, Death Row, Mother Jones, Soda, Ms Magazine, In These Times, Operation Rescue, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Pop, Texas Observer, Home News
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking the USDA to approve a pilot program that would preve...

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Weekly Diaspora: ICE Deports Children, Disabled, and Domestic Violence Victims

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigrant Rights, Campus Progress, Obama, change.org, Immigrants, Immigration, Texas Observer, Immigration Policy, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, The Washington Independent, Ice, Politics News
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger For the past several months, the Obama administration has relentlessly professed its commitment to ...

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Weekly Diaspora: Will $600 Million Border Security Bill Target Innocents?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: El Paso, Dhs, Mexican Border, Joe Arpaio, Immigration, Border Network for Human Rights, Arizona, Maricopa, Immigration Policy Institute, Ice, Russell Pearce, Department of Homeland Security, Detention Centers, Washington Independent, Colorlines, Janet Napolitano, Sb 1070, Border, Border Patrol, Ciudad Juarez, Secrure Communities, Militarized Border, Juarez, South of the Border, New America Media, Drug War, Border Control, Texas Observer, Home News
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Anti-immigrant forces have adeptly shaped the ongoing immigration debate into an issue of crime and...

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Weekly Mulch: Oil rig sinks, as does Senate climate bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cape Cod, Epa, Regulation, Clean Energy, Kevin Drum, Mms, Lieberman, Dod, Carol Browner, Biomass, Oil Spill, Cape Wind, Mother Jones, Disaster, Climate Bill, In These Times, Grist, Texas Observer, Bp, Kerry, Louisiana, Greenhouse Gas, Massachusetts, Texas, Coast Guard, Care2, Wind Farm, Interior Department, Graham, Environment, Oil, Off-Shore Drilling, Working in These Times, Senate, The Washington Independent, Exxon Valdez, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil f...

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Weekly Mulch: Obama's Responsibility for the BP Oil Spill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Markey, Bp, Louisiana, Tpm, Gulf of Mexico, Diane Wilson, Texas, Obama, Media, Kevin Drum, Care2, Mms, Coal, Alternet, Colorlines, Oil Spill, Not One Drop, Mining, Chelsea Green, Oil, TAP, Top Kill, Grist, Texas Observer, Riki Ott, Fishermen, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger President Barack Obama is in Louisiana today, and BP is saying it will know in 48 hours if its attempt to "t...

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Weekly Mulch: Climate Change On Obama's Back Burner

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Congress, Green Jobs, Renewable Energy, Jobs, Obama, Clean Energy, Diplomacy, Alternet, State of the Union, Mother Jones, Cap-and-Trade, Fossil Fuels, John Kerry, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Inter Press Service, In These Times, Tea Party, Grist, Copenhagen, Texas Observer, Solar Power, Global Warming, Natural Gas, Florida, Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Sustain, President Barack Obama, European Union, Global Warming Skeptics, High-Speed Rail, Copenhagen Accord, cop15, Pew Research Center, Sotu, Off-Shore Drilling, Senate, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only briefly. He c...

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Texas Keeps Retarded Men on Death Row

Renee Feltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renee Feltz, Texas Defender Service, Mentally Retarded, Texas, Death Penalty, Execution, Texas Observer, Politics News
Renee Feltz

In Texas, prosecutors have fought to hold off evidence of mental retardation to the penalty phase of a trial, meaning that jurors consider it only after they have convicted a defendant of murder.

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Video From Death Row: Possibly Retarded Prisoner Faces Execution

Renee Feltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Renee Feltz

As Texas reopens its execution chamber after a Thanksgiving break, the first man set to die may be mentally retarded.

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What Would Molly Think?

Betsy Moon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, Women, 2004, Newspapers, Democratic National Convention, Austin, Molly Ivins, Chicago Magazine, Barack Obama, Memories, Austin Texas, Death, Texas, Publishing, Texas Observer, Women and Politics, Memory, Memorial, Sadness, Molly Ivins Texas, In Memory, Betsy Moon, Healthy Living News
Betsy Moon

Molly Ivins made us want to be our better selves and stand up and use our power. Two years after her death, she would be so proud that we finally woke up and worked to make this happen.

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Stiglitz on War Cost, Economic Outlook

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Stiglitz Iraq, James Galbraith, Economy, Lawrence Lindsey, Texas, Bailout, New York City, Eps, Gordon Brown, Orange County, John Kenneth Galbraith, Phil Gramm, Cost of War, Economists for Peace and Security, Tarp, Texas Observer, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

conomics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz spoke Friday at a fundraiser for Economists for Peace and Security (EPS), which was created to study the "full costs of war and conflict."

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McCain Owes Us More Than Gramm's Resignation

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gramm Economic Policy, Insider Baseball, Ken Lay, Snake, Phil Gramm, John McCain, Patricia Kilday Hart, Enron, Varmint, Black-Hearted Varmint, John McCain's Gramm Gamble, Lay, Nation of Whiners, Whiners, Gramm, McCain Distances Himself From Gramm, Texas Observer, John McCain Phil Gramm, Phil Gramm Mental Recession, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

McCain wants us to put him in charge of the world's leading economy, but he is outsourcing his intellectual and philosophical responsibilities in that area. It seems to be part of who he is, just like Bush.

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