How Media Toasts Hurt GOP Establishment

How Media Toasts Hurt GOP Establishment

A Morning Consult poll released on Halloween offers a scary result for establishment Republicans. They tested the approval and disapproval ratings of current members of the U.S. Senate. Guess who was in the cellar. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ranked dead...
Battle Lines Drawn Over Marker

Battle Lines Drawn Over Marker

AUSTIN — Outside Rep. Eric Johnson’s office in the state Capitol is a plaque that claims secession was not an act of rebellion and the Civil War was not fought to sustain slavery. It was installed in 1959, when his parents were growing up in the West Dallas housing...
That Other Plot — To Bring Down Trump

That Other Plot — To Bring Down Trump

Well over a year after the FBI began investigating “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with a series of...
Middle School Drama on National Stage

Middle School Drama on National Stage

Three winds currently blowing through political Washington: the never-ending, middle school-esque drama talk, the steady reduction of executive overreach and the need for legislative leadership. All three will have an effect on mid-term elections next year. The...