The governorship and US Senate seats are determined by state-wide, popular vote elections in Texas. Gerrymandering has a huge impact, but only on the state and US house seats. If Wendy Davis had run this year instead of 2014, she would have an excellent chance of winning because Democrats finally feel empowered to run…

Wendy Davis probably would have lost no matter what, but she primarily lost because the governor race in Texas is a mid-term election, which have historically low turnout nationwide, and extremely low turnout among left-leaning voters in Texas. If she had run this year, she would have had a chance and so would Julian…

It seems to be getting worse. I come to town for ACL every year and we go down to 6th for our annual burger at Casino el Camino. We used to see a show at the Ritz, too, but it’s just getting so sketchy. I don’t mind homeless people, but I’ve been shit talked by one too many panhandlers because I didn’t have…

One of my favorite Austin memories was eating and drinking at Casino el Camino and watching FDR American Badass on the TV over the bar. It truly is the only reason to step foot on 6th.

These actors can choose to believe, or not believe, the accusations about Woody Allen, but they’ve been out there for over twenty years. I’d say it’s common knowledge. If you don’t believe the accusations, or just don’t care either way, then work with him and if people want to judge you for it, then it’s their…

I somehow thought this was going to have something to do with the allegations against his father regarding Natalie Wood.

I’m in Fort Worth, TX and it’s been all over my Facebook, but then, I follow a lot of activist groups. There’s a march here that I’ll be at, and one next door in Dallas, and both are expecting a thousands.

Where are you at in Texas? Here in Fort Worth, my left pinky knuckle is cracked from dryness and we’ve had to run the heater for at least the last two months. It’s been barely above freezing all week. While summer is definitely wayyyyyy too long here, winter does happen....for a few brutal weeks.

The story states she was kicked out of the program on Christmas Eve. The incident at the hospital was on January 9. The two events aren’t connected.

The first time I went to a Korean restaurant, I was with a Korean-American friend and another friend who had spent the last two years living in South Korea for work. I was initially intimidated when they laid out the banchan, but having two people who were familiar with the customs made it a lot easier to just dive…

I work in the construction industry, and my boss (the company owner) came to work SINGING the morning after the election. The cognitive dissonance it takes to vote for an anti-immigration, anti-small business president as a small construction company owner in TEXAS and then SING when he’s elected is baffling.

For the first time in my life, we’ve gone long periods of time over the past year not speaking. It’s truly had a negative impact on our relationship, but disowning a parent is easier said than done.

My mother has been voting Democrat for as long as I can remember, as well. She was a struggling single mother who raised me to be a self-reliant woman, empathetic and with common sense. But Trump gets the nomination, and then all of a sudden she’s a xenophobe and she’s voting for him and while we haven’t stopped…

For real. My husband and I had been living together for about a year and a half and we both just sort of decided to get married. In hindsight, I don’t understand how anyone would just cool their heels in a relationship, wanting to be married, but waiting on the other person to decide when the time’s right to do so, if…

Oh, you haven’t seen Twitter then. The MAGA crowd is STOKED.

It’s not even the politics of it. Anyone who supports Trump, in my eyes at least, is saying by their vote that they endorse the truly awful shit he said and did before he was ever even president. To continue to double down and support him since his election is to say that the even more abhorrent shit he’s said and…

What you’re describing is my mother. I’ll never understand why she voted for Trump for as long as I live. I think she does regret it, and the only thing she’ll say is, “he would have won Texas anyway!”.

This was my mother’s justification for voting for Trump, when she’s voted straight-line D in every election that I can recall her voting in. And now she is so embarrassed by how it’s all turned out that she refuses to discuss politics at all and gets pissed off and shuts down when other people bring it up.

I live in the DFW region of Texas, and if you want to rescue a dog from a shelter (as opposed to through a breed-specific rescue), your options are almost always between pit-mixes and chihuahua-mixes, and I never see puppies. It hadn’t occurred to me that it might have to do with advancements in spay/neuter programs.

So Luke made the whole thing up? He told everyone that he was teaching several other students, but Ben was his only actual student? Why? What purpose would that serve? I’ll buy Luke becoming a grumpy old malcontent who’s disconnected himself from the Force, but you’re basically saying that he is completely delusional…