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July 7, 2014
Stop Patriarchy Is Crashing Texas with Its Abortion Freedom Ride, and Local Feminists Are Pissed
Wendy Davis' 11th-hour filibuster in June 2013 didn't ultimately stop the Texas Legislature from passing some of the country's most sweeping abortion restrictions, nor did it stop abortion clinics across the state from shutting their doors when they couldn't meet the stringent new standards or obtai ... More >>
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June 18, 2014
Greg Abbott Decides That Spanish Speakers Are Worth Courting, Does So
Greg Abbott debuted his first general election campaign ad Tuesday, bucking his party's recent trend by at least attempting to appeal to Hispanic voters. The ad, which can be seen in full below and features Abbott's mother-in-law and sister-in-law, was aired on Univision during Mexico and Brazil's ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2014
Fort Worth Homeless Man Gets Seven Years For Firebombing Wendy Davis' Senate Office
On March 20, 2012, a year before her filibuster against abortion restrictions catapulted her to national stardom and a gubernatorial bid, state Senator Wendy Davis had the singular distinction of having her Fort Worth office firebombed. Davis wasn't in her office, and no one was injured, but the ba ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2014
Wendy Davis' Opponents Say She'll Kill Texas' Oil Boom, but What Does Her Record Say?
We know that a Wendy Davis-governed Texas would probably be more into preserving natural resources than a Texas ruled by Greg Abbott, who has sued the EPA a modest 17 times. But in a state famous for its lax environmental regulations, how much tougher would Davis be? Local environmental issues, pa ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2014
Chuck Norris Just Endorsed Greg Abbott, So the Governor's Race is Over Now, Right?
Remember that time last summer, back when her epic filibuster against sweeping abortion restrictions gripped the nation and roused Texas' long-slumbering Democratic Party, when it seemed like Wendy Davis had a shot of becoming governor? Well, here's a flying roundhouse kick of reality, courtesy of ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2014
Video Purporting to Show Mockery of Greg Abbott's Disability Is Unbelievably Misleading
Conservative agent provocateur James O'Keefe's latest undercover video sting seemed to feed the narrative that Democrats just go around constantly making fun of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's wheelchair. This is what O'Keefe is good at: Using hidden cameras to film targets, then editing the he ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2014
Wendy Davis is "Using Her Kids" Now, Fox News Says
If there was ever any doubt that the debate over the fudged details in Wendy Davis' bio had completely jumped the shark, confirmation came this week in the form of unsolicited parenting advice the Democratic gubernatorial candidate was offered by Bristol Palin. Yet the story continues, feeding on i ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2014
Greg Abbott Is in a Wheelchair. Can We Move On Now?
Yesterday, with the state's attention still glued to Wendy Davis' Trailergate, competing groups attempted to roll Greg Abbott's wheelchair into the gubernatorial debate. First came James O'Keefe's latest undercover video showing a Battleground Texas volunteer identified as attorney Lisa Wortham (th ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2014
Witch Wendy Davis, the ... OTHER!!!
Here in the city where Republican swift-boating was invented, we have good reason to wonder what's really at the heart of it. In 2004 when the character assassins went after John Kerry, I assumed their motivation was straight-up cynicism. Muddy him up so Bush will look better. But this new assault ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2014
A Dallas Morning News Columnist Explains the "'Yuck' Factor" of Wendy Davis Bio
Jim Mitchell is a voice of moderation on The Dallas Morning News' editorial board, generally sticking to the middle ground and getting major points for not being Tod Robberson. True to form, the argument he lays out today on the DMN's opinion blog, that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davi ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2014
A Man Is Responsible For Wendy Davis' Success, DMN Story Timidly Suggests
The Dallas Morning News clearly wanted to publish a story reporting that Wendy Davis exaggerated about growing up poor while raising kids on her own. That's plain by the title of its big feature on the Sunday front page: "As Wendy Davis touts life story in race for governor, key facts blurred." Sur ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2014
Wendy Davis Didn't Actually Mock Greg Abbott for Being Paralyzed
When campaign fundraising totals for the Texas governor's race were announced on Tuesday, Wendy Davis' team celebrated that their $12.2 million haul bested Greg Abbott's $11.5 million. Abbott's team accused her of "fuzzy math" for counting $3.5 million donated to the Texas Victory Committee, which s ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2014
Wendy Davis Endorses...Dallas Dentist David Alameel's Doomed U.S. Senate Bid?
State Senator Wendy Davis' campaign has experienced a couple of hiccups in recent weeks. Her attack on rival Greg Abbott for being in the pocket of payday lenders backfired after her campaign grossly miscalculated the industry's contributions and neglected to mention that she had previously voted f ... More >>
Blogs
November 25, 2013
Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Calls for Statewide Ban on Red-Light Cameras
Imagine you're Tom Pauken. You're running a long-shot gubernatorial primary campaign against Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is better known, better funded and has already been christened "The Gov" by Texas Monthly. How can you possibly elbow your way into the narrow space to Abbott's right? You ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2013
Could Mike Rawlings Win a Senate Seat Just by not Being Totally Nuts or Shiftless?
Toward the end of last week I reported that some kind of Democrats -- I wasn't sure which -- have been whispering in Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings' ear about running for John Cornyn's Senate seat in 2014. Rawlings admitted he had spoken with them but discounted the whole deal, saying, "I'm way too fisc ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2013
State Sen. Wendy Davis, Gubernatorial Candidate, Had To Sign An Affidavit Before She Could Vote This Morning
Senator Wendy Davis, the first legitimate Democratic aspirant to statewide office in years, couldn't vote without first signing an affidavit verifying her identity Monday morning. That's because a state law passed in 2011 requires for the first time that voters provide a valid photo ID. So why did ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2013
Texas' Next Lieutenant Governor Thinks You Shouldn't Be Trusted to Elect Senators
It's not yet clear who will become Texas' next lieutenant governor. David Dewhurst, though tarnished by his defeat at the hands of Wendy Davis and her "unruly mob," could hang onto the seat. Or he could be out-flanked to the right in the Republican primary by a trio of challengers: Agriculture Commi ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2013
Wendy Davis Won't Fix Texas' Biggest Problem: Its Broken Public Schools System
Hey, look, all you fellow libtard lifelong Democrats out there, and I am talking to both of you, I want to believe in Wendy Davis as much as you do. Wouldn't it be wonderful? I'm singin' it now. But there's one big wave on this ocean that can still toss me out of the boat even in my lust to reach bl ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2013
Wendy Davis Is Running for Governor
It's official. Wendy Davis, the Fort Worth Democrat who rose to national prominence during her summer filibuster of abortion legislation, is running for governor. She made the announcement just now in the Haltom City auditorium where she graduated from high school. Already, pro-life groups are read ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2013
Planned Parenthood Is Suing Texas Over New Abortion Restrictions
BREAKING: PP, @ACLU, & @ReproRights have filed a suit in federal court to stop #HB2 from taking effect in TX. #StandWithTXWomen— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) September 27, 2013 Long before Wendy Davis laced up her pink Mizunos and stepped onto the floor of the Texas Senate for her h ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2013
New York Times Discovers Wendy Davis Again, Goes Sort of Biblical
Hey, sorry, I didn't want you to think I was falling down on the job with the "New York Times discovers Wendy Davis" story-story. Remember I did catch you up Friday. See also: Wendy Davis Is Sort of a Laura Miller Candidate. So How Did that Work Out? I reminded you The New York Times had discove ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2013
Texas' Abortion Debate Has Finally Inspired a "Choose-Your-Own Adventure" Video Game
State Senator Wendy Davis' epic abortion filibuster in June inspired many things: a spike in pink Mizuno sales; imaginary jars of human excrement; an unfamiliar sense of accomplishment among Texas Democrats. And now, a video game. The New York Daily News brings us the story of "Choice: Texas," whic ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2013
Wendy Davis Is Sort of a Laura Miller Candidate. So How Did that Work Out?
The New York Times today contains what apparently is going to be a regular feature on how cool Wendy Davis is. Today's installment is called "Democrats see value in Texas in candidacy for governor." The one two weeks ago was, "Democrats see hope in Texas star."The one three days before that was "Dem ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2013
Welcome to DewFeed, the Wackiest BuzzFeed-Inspired Campaign Website in Texas
Dan Patrick, a Republican state senator from Houston and Tea Party darling, has officially been in the lieutenant governor's race for almost two months now. Patrick, like the other challengers vying for the seat, has positioned himself to the right of incumbent David Dewhurst, attacking him for bein ... More >>
Blogs
August 15, 2013
Meet the Republicans Who Are Lining Up for Wendy Davis' Senate Seat
Wendy Davis still hasn't declared whether or not she plans to run for Governor. If she does, she'll face a formidable challenge in Attorney General Greg Abbott, Rick Perry's all-but-anointed successor. If she doesn't, she faces a challenge that's almost as formidable winning reelection in a Republic ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2013
Is Wendy Davis Running for Governor?
Wendy Davis, the "Abortion Superstar", is jerking our chains a little bit. She still won't say whether she'll run for governor in 2014 or just re-election for her seat in the Texas senate. But a Texas lobbyist with "credible sources" has posted on his blog that she's definitely gunning to lead Texas ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2013
Republicans Want Wendy Davis to Foot Possible $2.4 Million Bill for Special Session
In the wake of yesterday's epic fail on transportation funding it looks like state legislators are headed back to Austin for a third month-long special session, and it won't be cheap. As the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports this morning, each extra month the legislature's in session costs $800,000, ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2013
Sen. Wendy Davis Doesn't Like Beans in Her Chili, Has Rahr's Ugly Pug in the fridge, and Of Course, Prefers Whataburger
Thursday evening "TexasHoss" was sittin' on his porch pondering life. He had a sweet tea down by the legs of his chair, which was tilted back at an angle only a real cowboy could be comfortable with, while his dusty boots were perched upon the wooden rail in front of him. He stared at his pastures a ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2013
The 10 Dumbest Moments from the Texas Legislature's Abortion Debate
The abortion debate is a Gordian knot wrapped in a koan stuck in an inescapable quagmire. It's not, in other words, a matter that can be settled through dialogue, reasoned or otherwise, as the Texas Legislature has so amply proved over the past month. That hasn't stopped people from trying. In some ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2013
At City Hall Today, Lawmakers and Planned Parenthood Urged Dallas to "Stand With Texas Women"
The Texas House just passed sweeping abortion restrictions. Once they pass the senate, the procedure will be banned 20 weeks post-fertilization, and all but five abortion providers in the state will be forced to close thanks to a medically unnecessary requirement that they meet the standards of ambu ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2013
Watch State Troopers Drag a Screaming Protester as Texas House Approves Abortion Restrictions
As expected, the Texas House passed new, restrictive abortion restrictions this afternoon, sending them on to the Senate for final approval, but not before Democrats could launch a statewide bus tour, and not before this pro-choice protester could scream at lawmakers from the gallery. Unlike the cla ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2013
Texas' Proposed Abortion Restrictions Took Another Step Toward Passage Last Night
A week after state Senator Wendy Davis power-talked her way into liberal America's heart, reality continued to set in last night in Austin, where a panel of lawmakers approved the same set of abortion restrictions that Davis filibustered, while hundreds of people who registered to testify about the ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2013
Wendy Davis Is Hot, So the Right Thinks She's a "Surgically Constructued Human Barbie Doll"
It's a science, folks: State Senator Wendy Davis is way more attractive than the rest of her colleagues in the Legislature, with the possible exception of Wayne Smith. Capitol watchers have known this for years, but it wasn't until the rest of America set its eyes upon Davis' filibuster that it reac ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2013
Poll: Texans Still Don't Particularly Like Rick Perry, but He'd Whip Senator Wendy Davis in Gubernatorial Race
Senator Wendy Davis stood beneath the dome for 11 hours in Mizuno sneakers (and, quite possibly, adult diapers) filibustering abortion legislation that could have shuttered all but a handful of providers. At one point nearly 200,000 tuned into watch, until three rather sketchy points of order brough ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2013
A House Democrat Tweeted a Terrible Joke Comparing Aborted Fetuses and Dick Cheney
From a purely tactical standpoint, Democrats maintained momentum during this summer's abortion debate. The impassioned testimony delivered by hundreds of pro-choice women into the wee hours of the morning, Senator Wendy Davis standing for 11 hours to deliver an epic filibuster, the party's David vs ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2013
The Tea Party Will Use "Gandhi-Style Tactics" to Battle Fascist Pro-Choice Mobsters
The narrative that's emerged on the right in the wake of the defeat of sweeping anti-abortion legislation this week isn't that Senator Wendy Davis jiu jitsued a victory with a Frank Capra-worthy filibuster. Rather, it's that the democratic process was hijacked by an unruly mob of out-of-state agitat ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2013
The Daily Show Takes on Wendy Davis and the Texas Abortion Debate
There are many layers of absurdity that surround the abortion debate at the state Capitol over the past several days. There was state Representative Jodie Laubenberg's claim that rape kits clean out pregnancy and Republican senators' flimsy rationale for ending Wendy Davis' epic filibuster. There wa ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2013
Senator Wendy Davis, With Help from a Lot of Pissed Off Texans, Kills Sweeping Abortion Bill
This wasn't supposed to happen. When Governor Rick Perry called a special legislative session and, later, tacked abortion onto the agenda, he was effectively declaring that the proposed restrictions, some of the toughest in the country, had enough support to become law. And he was right, in a way. C ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2013
Texas Republicans are Already Using the Filibuster as Ammo in Fight for Wendy Davis' Senate Seat
Even before Fort Worth Democrat Wendy Davis took the Senate floor late Tuesday morning and launched into the filibuster that would ultimately grab the nation's attention and kill attempts to railroad abortion restrictions through the state Legislature, she was at the top of Texas Republicans' hit li ... More >>
Blogs
June 26, 2013
A Bill for 17-Year-Old Capital Murderers Died in the Pile-Up Behind Wendy Davis' Filibuster
Last night, Senator Wendy Davis' epic filibuster against an antediluvian piece of abortion legislation was ended because Roe v. Wade apparently isn't "germane." So, the "unruly mob" up in the gallery finished the job for her. The votes could not be counted in the din before the special session ended ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2013
State Senator Wendy Davis Just Started Her Epic, All-Day Filibuster Against Abortion Restrictions
When, in the wee hours of Monday morning, House Republicans ended debate and pushed through one of the toughest anti-abortion bills in the country, it seemed destined to sail on to Governor Rick Perry's desk. It merely needed the OK from the Senate, which shouldn't be a problem given that they'd jus ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2013
The State Senate Approved a Massive Anti-Abortion Bill
And there it is: Late last night, the Senate approved SB 5, a massive set of abortion restrictions that combine all the worst parts of most every anti-abortion bill filed in the regular session of the legislature. Well, all the worst parts, with one notable exception: The bill's author, Republican S ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2013
Wendy Davis Aims to Restrict Seizure of Private Land for Pipelines -- But Not the Keystone
You'd think in this state, property rights would be the inviolable bedrock around which damn near everything else revolves. You'd think eminent domain, the taking of private property for public use, would be invoked only when the common benefit of a railroad, a highway or a pipeline is so undeniable ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2013
State Senator Wendy Davis Wants To Bring Federal Fair Pay Laws for Women To Texas
There was an interesting, widely under-reported battle going on in the state legislature this morning, and it hinged around consistently badass Fort Worth state Senator Wendy Davis. Back in January, Davis filed SB 248, a bill that would bring the Lilly Ledbetter Act to Texas. The Lily Ledbetter Fair ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2012
Fort Worth Senator Wendy Davis Wants to Use Strip Club Tax to Pay for Untested Rape Kits
Fort Worth Senator Wendy Davis announced this week that she'll be teaming up with the Texas Department of Public Safety to remind state law enforcement agencies, once again, that a new law requires them to report how many untested rape kits they have in evidence. At the same time, she announced the ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2012
State Legislators to PUC: Before You Raise Electricity Price Caps, Calculate the Costs
As we told you recently, the Texas Public Utility Commission is looking at raising the maximum amount that electricity generators can charge for power during times of high demand, when prices typically spike. Right now, the cap -- the state's gesture to keep us from getting gouged every July -- is $ ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
Homeless Man Accused of Throwing Molotov Cocktails at State Sen. Wendy Davis' Fort Worth Office
On Tuesday night, state Senator Wendy Davis' staff announced that someone had set a small fire outside the door of her Fort Worth office using bottles filled with lighter fluid. The senator wasn't there at the time, and no one else was hurt during the incident, which badly scorched the door of the o ... More >>
News
June 2, 2011
Senator Wendy Davis Draws a Line in the Dirt
At last, a Democrat is willing to stand up to Perrypublicans.
Blogs
May 31, 2011
My New Hero, Fort Worth's Wendy Davis, Who Sure as Hell Ain't Scared Of Rick Perry
Thank the Lord every once in a while the American political system churns out a Wendy Davis, the 48-year-old Senate freshman from Fort Worth who filibustered Rick Perry's legislative session to a soggy grave in the wee small hours of Monday night. The Perrypublican fury over Davis's act isn't me ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2011
Wendy Davis Goes to Austin: Watch the Entirety of Fort Worth Senator's Late-Night Filibuster
Late last night, the Startlegram's Bud Kennedy took to Facebook to pass along state Sen. Wendy Davis's heads-up that she was about to begin her filibuster intended to shut down (which is to say, temporarily delay) the vote that would have gutted public education. Said the Fort Worth Democrat and ... More >>
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