For our night owls: A first look at our post-election autopsy. It will take you through the history that led to November 3 and hopefully enlighten and entertain. Like everything we do, it's free. Enjoy. -OS
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Read @byjoelanderson's great column about the amazing things that happened in Texas on Tuesday.
If 1994 seems like forever ago, that's because it was.
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I agree. The Minneapolis resistance deserves a bigger place in American history than has been generally acknowledged. It was Waterloo for Trump's authoritarian onslaught.
In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville.
More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter has been elected governor of Georgia.
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unofficial of course but: @jamestalarico appears to have won 35.5% of the rural/exurban vote. @BetoORourke won only 24% in 2018. holy smokes https://t.co/x2hY5wzFvt #txlege#tx2026
On this day in 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson won his first termin the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican Jack Porter. He'd clinched the Democratic nomination by just 87 votes in a disputed runoff against former Gov. Coke Stevenson. @TheTexasFlyover
i think it's all well and good for national magazines to send their guy or gal down to texas to write about all the hullabaloo but look: when @cd_hooks has had his say that's what you read, that's what it is, that's how things are https://t.co/oK8L6mpLTR
.@KenPaxtonTX and @jamestalarico both talk a lot about their Christianity, but education is one topic that “provides a really sharp contrast between the two candidates,” said @phevron of @txwomans https://t.co/rkWVKAoai4
TIGHT TEXAS SENATE RACE:
A closer look at some of the recent issues in this political battle between @KenPaxtonTX and @jamestalarico. FULL DISCUSSION with @phevron, Political Science Professor at @txwomans.
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NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.”
This is Avenue B Grocery. Same Austin neighborhood since 1909.
Building it today would be illegal.
We didn't lose corner stores to the market. We killed them with zoning.
The CORNER Act (draft model legislation) legalizes small neighborhood businesses, by right. 🧵
@MattBruenig@NotJackKemp@DMagazine Jerry's always been enamored with causal inference and natural experiments. One of the foremost methodologists of his time, really.