Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) is up for reelection in November, and both his Republican base and his Republican colleagues have shown their support for the Senator’s reelection. His opponent, MJ Hegar (D), however, is facing difficulty in uniting members of her party to support her candidacy after her Democratic rival, Texas State Sen. Royce West told the Austin American-Statesman that he did not plan on voting on Hegar in the November election.
Now, Black Lives Matter supporters are continuing to receive criticism after some supporters were caught on camera wearing Antifa clothes and spray painting inverted crosses, Nazi Swastikas, pentagrams, Black Lives Matter and Biden 2020. On a Chaldean Catholic Church, which has a congregation that is primarily composed of Christian refugees and immigrants from Iraq.
The upcoming 2020 election is host to a slew of fresh new voices from both sides of the aisle that are receiving both criticism and support, and one new voice that has been making waves in Texas is Will Douglas (R), a conservative who is running for the Texas House.
As the month of August comes to a close, it means that voters are that much closer to the 2020 election. In turn, Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R) took to Twitter to share a video of him detailing the reasons why he believes that Democrats should not take hold of office in November.
All eyes were on the hearing involving Attorney General William Barr this week, and one takeaway that many have pointed out in a humorous way is “reclaiming my time.”
After suffering a defeat by Democrat Colin Allred in the November 2018 midterm election, Republican Pete Sessions has now shifted his sights to Texas’ 17th congressional district. In his battle to become a Texas Rep., Sessions faces opposition from Republican Renee Swann who’s also vying for the congressional seat. However, while Swann has launched an advertisement discrediting Sessons’ time in office, Swann is receiving some criticism of her own based on prior voting efforts.
The Democratic National Committee in a since-deleted tweet accused President Trump of “glorifying white supremacy” with his upcoming visit to Mount Rushmore to kick off Independence Day weekend. “Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again,” The DNC’s official Twitter […]
Former President Barack Obama joined his former vice president Joe Biden in a virtual fundraiser Tuesday evening, promising that “help is on the way” and urging supporters not to be “complacent or smug” declaring that “whatever you’ve done so far […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) signaled on Tuesday that Senate Democrats are prepared to block the GOP police reform from advancing, calling the measure “woefully inadequate” and urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to back down from holding a […]
In an effort to respond to the growing concerns regarding police reform, an issue that has incited protests throughout the United States, Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) has joined Republican colleagues to introduce the Just and Unifying Solutions to Invigorate Communities Everywhere (JUSTICE) Act. With the legislation, the Republican lawmakers argue that it will provide long-term solutions that are focused on police reform, accountability along with transparency, promoting efforts to finding solutions to systemic issues that are affecting people of color regarding health and education disparities.
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