Texas Republicans Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/texas-republicans/ A platform for change Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:49:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Pete Buttigieg blasts Texas Republicans on handling of migrants, LGBTQ rights https://flux.community/joshua-fechter/2022/09/pete-buttigieg-blasts-texas-republicans-on-handling-of-migrants-lgbtq-rights/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:00:19 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12398 Click image to load video. YouTube’s terms of service will apply when the video loads. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for sending migrants en masse to Democrat-led cities — accusing the Republican governors of using vulnerable people to call attention to themselves. “Obviously, there are […]

The post Pete Buttigieg blasts Texas Republicans on handling of migrants, LGBTQ rights appeared first on Flux.

]]> Along the Texas-Mexico border, GOP enthusiasm mounts as Democrats defect over immigration concerns https://flux.community/james-barragan/2022/09/along-the-texas-mexico-border-gop-enthusiasm-mounts-as-democrats-defect-over-immigration-concerns/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:00:59 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12286 Dale Lynn Carruthers had always been a Democrat. Growing up in the small, predominantly Hispanic city of Sanderson near the border in West Texas, everyone she knew belonged to the party, which had long been dominant in the region. So when she ran for a seat on the Terrell County Commissioners Court for the first […]

The post Along the Texas-Mexico border, GOP enthusiasm mounts as Democrats defect over immigration concerns appeared first on Flux.

]]> Not so fast: Greg Abbott, Texas Republicans face a complex election landscape after abortion ruling, Uvalde shooting https://flux.community/patrick-svitek/2022/09/not-so-fast-greg-abbott-texas-republicans-face-a-complex-election-landscape-after-abortion-ruling-uvalde-shooting/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 13:00:28 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12238 Last year, Texas Republicans were pumping out red-meat laws in a marathon of special legislative sessions, preparing to lock in their dominance for another decade with redistricting and salivating at a midterm environment that historically should have favored them. Things have gotten a little more complicated since then. While the environment in Texas still favors […]

The post Not so fast: Greg Abbott, Texas Republicans face a complex election landscape after abortion ruling, Uvalde shooting appeared first on Flux.

]]> Texas Republican politics ‘is a Russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple’ https://flux.community/laura-clawson/2022/07/texas-republican-politics-is-a-russian-style-oligarchy-pure-and-simple/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:00:27 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=11859 Texas is increasingly a horror show: a place where the rights of women, LGBTQ people, and people of color are under attack, along with voting and public education, while Republican officials set the conditions for more and more gun violence. It’s in line with the movement of the Republican Party nationwide, but everything is faster, harder, crueler. […]

The post Texas Republican politics ‘is a Russian-style oligarchy, pure and simple’ appeared first on Flux.

]]>