Texas's Medicaid backlog exploded as state workers took on the new SNAP rules in Trump's budget bill. A pregnant Houston mom waited into her second trimester. San Antonio's mayor asked Gov. Greg Abbott to step in. His agency won't even say what's causing it.
Texas Rep. Keith Self told Newsmax 'the Muslims want to be treated differently' and 'have no respect for U.S. law' — blaming an entire religion for a Senate candidate's booth at a Muslim convention, and calling on the Justice Department to indict the group that hosted it.
They're deleting Trump from their websites, calling for an end to his Iran war, and telling him his immigration crackdown went too far. Every one of them who was in Congress voted for Trump's budget bill, and every House member among them voted for $70 billion more for ICE.
Ken Paxton's campaign took about $40,000 from donors tied to a Houston developer that courts investors in China for its Texas housing — before his super PAC spent more than $10 million on ads tying James Talarico to "communist China."
On April 16 a war powers resolution failed 213-214. On May 14 the next one deadlocked 212-212, and a tie fails. Either one needed exactly one Republican to switch. Only Thomas Massie, who has no page here, voted yes both times.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
After reporting resurfaced his boast about owning a 1939 copy of Hitler's manifesto, the Trump-endorsed nominee in Texas's 23rd District made a video — holding the book up to the camera and saying he's read a good chunk of it. A Republican group once called him a 'goose-stepping extremist.'
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
H.R. 10377 would drop every noncitizen from the count used to hand out House seats, force a new apportionment before the 2028 election, and put a citizenship question on every future census. The Fourteenth Amendment — which Clyde's filing cites as its authority — says to count 'the whole number of persons in each State.'
