Anne MacDonald Grace

Global Development and Investment Policy, Former Bush and PEPFAR Haiti Advisor. Head of Political Risk @Dentons. all tweets mine

[Anne MacDonald Grace @annedmacd]

It’s going to be a big August week ahead for the 2027 Congress - a very helpful @PuckNews primer / reminder of who has to drop out and by when…standing by for August 3rd for Kentucky (and praying for a full McConnell recovery!), August 4th for South Dakota, and August 5th for Ohio…

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

America and Europe are in crisis today-it's a deep crisis of leadership. In the US, over the past three decades, elites have forgotten the principle of servant leadership: that those privileged to govern owe their privilege to the citizens, that their duty is to serve. 6/10

[Anne MacDonald Grace @annedmacd]

Texas becomes a G8 economy…surpassing Brazil and Canada, and with a higher growth rate than 8/10 of the world’s biggest economies 🤠

https://t.co/HnDReF5kvZ

[Anne MacDonald Grace @annedmacd]

Great piece from my friend and Dallas champion Maggie Parker on what the city can do to bring back some of what is leaving the urban core

https://t.co/ipWkuqhXOv

[Anne MacDonald Grace @annedmacd]

Texas leads nation with 57 Fortune 500 headquarters…

[paintbrush @TXpaintbrush]

In case the Mavericks or the Stars both moving north from downtown moves puzzles anyone...

2009 median income heatmap versus 2024

(ACS census tract data)

The entire center of gravity for a (now) 8 million person metro is shifting north ~1 mile every decade.

[Brad Johnson @bradj_TX]

Scoop: At two fundraisers in Houston this week, @GregAbbott_TX issued warnings of November disaster for Texas Republicans — departing from the public boldness he’s expressed at press conferences. #txlege

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

Over at Substack, @JoshEakle asks: "It's 2026, and I have yet to see an anti-almond farm protest."

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Massachusetts do your thing

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Translation: get used to expensive water

[Anne MacDonald Grace @annedmacd]

Great points (towards the end) for 2026 and ‘28 campaigns on where eyeballs are and the growing importance of YouTube…

[Sam Stein @samstein]

There is just SO much to chew on in this piece. The really important stuff is actually the diagnosis of the political internet economy (that's later in the item). But the autopsy stuff is important too. Here's just a sampling

[Vatican News @vaticannews_pt]

Ao deixar Castel Gandolfo, o Papa Leão XIV saudou um rapaz de 15 anos, Ignácio. Eles se conheceram no @bambinogesu quando tratava um linfoma. Hoje, ele contou ao Papa que está curado.

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

NEW: Ken Paxton said he needed $20M to take John Cornyn's Senate. But, less than a month to primary runoff day, he's fallen short of that.

I analyzed Paxton's campaign money and found he's lost many of the big donors that backed his last re-election as attorney general. #txlege

[Brad Johnson @bradj_TX]

New @hobbyschooluh poll on two GOP runoffs shows:

#TXSen
@KenPaxtonTX-48%
@JohnCornyn-45%

#TXAG
@mayes_middleton-48%
@chiproytx-39%
https://t.co/D05tgg1Meq

[Anne MacDonald Grace @annedmacd]

Kentucky gone wild the night before the Derby

[bryan metzger @metzgov]

Trump is intervening in the Kentucky GOP Senate primary, giving Nate Morris an unspecified ambassadorship after Elon Musk spent $10 million boosting his candidacy.

Also says he’s making an endorsement “shortly.”

[Anne MacDonald Grace @annedmacd]

Dallas Builds, Baby, Builds ⤵️ 🤠

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

There is no rent control in Dallas. Texas law forbids it. Texas also has very permissive land use rules that make it easy to build.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence though!

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

You know Asia is truly short of crude oil when Japanese television covers the arrival of a single oil tanker from America as a major news story

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Gene Braunwald died at 96.

In a normal world, this would be front page of the NYT and WSJ.

The father of modern cardiology.

Fled the Holocaust as a boy

Went on to save millions of lives

The most important clinician-scholar of the last 50 years. We should all know his name

[Gabby Birenbaum @birenbomb]

New TPOR poll of #txsen

Paxton: 48%
Cornyn: 40%

Fielded April 6-7, n=1,225 likely voters, MOE = 3.2%

Poll found that 24% of Cornyn voters report they’d be likely to vote for Talarico if Paxton is the nominee; 10% of Paxton voters say the same if Cornyn is nominee

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

Texas is opening up an office in London to lure UK businesses to the state. It'll be led by James Taylor.

https://t.co/egl8m5fory