Month: December 2022

Political Wire: “Employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their Texas driver’s license and other department records during the past two years,” the Washington Post reports.”

WaPo: “The largest antiabortion organization in Texas has created a team of advocates assigned to investigate citizens who might be distributing abortion pills illegally. Students for Life of America, a leading national antiabortion group, is making plans to systematically test the waterErin Brockovich-style in several large U.S. cities, searching for contaminants they say result from medication…

NC Policy Watch: “Several years ago, several “Eat This, Not That” books took America by storm, dispelling a lot of myths about our eating habits, giving us smarter diets. Here’s a similar version, based upon lessons from the 2022 Georgia election and runoff, which can help candidates prepare for the 2024 election and avoid myths from…

TX Observer: “In the fall of 2021, a national reporter from Politico was in Austin writing another profile of Beto O’Rourke as the El Paso Democrat geared up to follow a failed presidential campaign with a run for governor. The reporter asked Mayor Steve Adler whether it was a sustainable political strategy for Texas Democrats for O’Rourke to keep…

WRAL: “North Carolina prosecutors will determine whether to pursue criminal charges against Mark Meadows, a former congressman in the state who left office to become then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Meadows voted in North Carolina’s 2020 general election. He was registered to vote in the state using an address of a rented western North…

WaPo: “Democrats will select a nominee in the special election to replace the late Rep. A. Donald McEachin in a firehouse primary on Dec. 20 — creating a mad-dash one-week campaign after Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a tight timeline for the election earlier Monday. Youngkin (R) announced a special election to fill the 4th Congressional…

AR Democrat Gazette: “Speaking in a half-lit auditorium in front of more than 100 Democratic Party of Arkansas committee members on Saturday, outgoing party Chairman Grant Tennille said he had to deliver some hard truths. Like the truth that most of the party’s committee members do not donate or volunteer. Or why a party that…

AL Political Reporter: “A few days ago, a national poll found that Alabama was one of the least politically engaged states in the country. Our recent voter turnout numbers of less than 40 percent – for a much-hyped midterm, no less – backed up that polling.  There are many reasons for the state’s lack of…

truthout: ““License to Work,” an Institute for Justice report published on November 29, 2022, examines 102 lower-income occupations and finds beauty professionals commonly face especially high barriers. Most of these beauty workers are women, and many are immigrants. Some aspiring beauty professionals choose alternate careers to avoid the expense. Others hide in the shadows, looking over their…

NY Times: “Roughly 200 inmates are held beyond their legal release dates on any given month in Louisiana, amounting to 2,000 to 2,500 of the 12,000 to 16,000 prisoners freed each year. The average length of additional time was around 44 days in 2019, according to internal state corrections data obtained by lawyers for inmates…