Fighting the GOP Civil War, Texas Style
Forget the anticlimactic end to the presidential primary; the most revealing political drama is unfolding right now in Texas. In the swamps and refineries of Southeast Texas, Speaker Dade Phelan finds himself in the crosshairs of a high-stakes primary challenge—a…
Inside the Democrats’ New Plan to Flip Texas
Late last month, in the middle of Odessa, Texas, a jarring scene unfolded outside the Ector County Democratic Party headquarters. In front of the dusty office shared with the town’s first-ever Hispanic attorney were five cars. Two of them were…