Oct 2 2019
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Even before Texas Rep. Will Hurd announced he wasn’t running for re-election, Gina Ortiz Jones, who had narrowly…
Sep 6 2019
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he’d stand up to the NRA to close the background check loophole on private gun sales, only to defend the loophole on gun transfers between friends, “though he acknowledged that could be abused,” the Dallas Morning News reported Friday. Texas fails its people, once again.
Sep 3 2019
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The deadliest of August’s many mass shootings took place at a Walmart in El Paso, where a Fox News-echoing white…
Sep 3 2019
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Oh my GOD can you believe it’s been a month since the cast of The View took their break?! Terrifyingly enough, the…
Sep 1 2019
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In the wake of not one, but two mass shootings in his state in less than a month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott…
Aug 13 2019
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The phrase “white nationalist terrorism” has become newly ubiquitous in the wake of the El Paso shooting.
Aug 10 2019
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The pushback against Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s blatant on-air racism is continuing to affect the company’s…
Aug 9 2019
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El Paso shooting suspect Patrick Crusius confessed to law enforcement and said that he had been targeting “Mexicans”…
Aug 7 2019
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President Donald Trump is visiting Dayton and El Paso today in the wake of two mass shootings that left 31 people…
Aug 6 2019
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The man who traveled across Texas to kill Latinx people is racist. The man who campaigned for president by calling…
Aug 6 2019
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I don’t know what is better: watching Princeton professor Eddie Glaude take just under three minutes on MSNBC to…
Aug 5 2019
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“These are sick people,” White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said in an interview on ABC News this Sunday,…
Aug 5 2019
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On Monday morning, President Donald Trump gave a speech at the White House about the mass shootings in El Paso and…
Aug 5 2019
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Could someone please PLEASE remind Texas Sen. John Cornyn that there’s a reason I’m required to put an honorific…
Aug 4 2019
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The debate underperformer and El Paso resident Beto O’Rourke returned to his off-the-cuff roots to make his first…
Aug 4 2019
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Update, 11:26 PM ET, 08/04/2019: This post was updated to reflect that Andre Anchondo was confirmed dead.
Aug 4 2019
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Dear Republicans, say it with me: White terr-or-ism. White supremacy. Domestic terrorism. Guns. Hate. Insecurity.…
Aug 4 2019
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Update, Sunday, 4:38 p.m. ET: Donald Trump has finally emerged from his New Jersey golf resort to comment about the…
Aug 4 2019
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When a white supremacist manifesto allegedly posted by the El Paso shooting suspect first began making the rounds on…
Aug 4 2019
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Ivanka Trump really thought it was a good idea for her to say something after the mass shootings in El Paso and…