NY Times: “First came the Republican gerrymander in Texas. Now comes the Democratic chaos in Houston. When Republican lawmakers, at the behest of President Trump, successfully redrew the congressional map of Texas this summer, the explicit aim was to grab as many as five U.S. House seats from the Democrats to try to preserve the…

The Nation: “So when news hit Facebook the day before Halloween last year that the governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was planning to call into the local radio station, KDYN True Country, to make an announcement, speculation ran wild. The station usually ran bulletins about local events like fish fries or little league baseball signups, not…

Democracy Now!: “In Texas, immigrant rights groups and supporters are demanding the release of an El Paso DACA recipient after a federal judge terminated her deportation proceedings. Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago is a longtime community organizer who was seized by Border Patrol agents at the El Paso airport in early August as she was about to board a…

NY Times: “Election after election, Democrats have raised the necessary money, gotten the needed attention and tried to win a Senate seat in Texas. They’ve talked football, chronicled their journeys across the vast state, highlighted their military heroism — and failed. Now James Talarico, a young Democratic state representative and Presbyterian seminarian, is taking a new tack, unafraid to talk…

Poker News: “The Texas poker community, not just TCH, scored a victory on Friday when the Texas Supreme Court denied Espinoza’s appeal. Ryan Crow, owner of Texas Card House, said he anticipates this being the end of the three-year legal battle against his Dallas poker club. Crow received approval to operate a poker club from…

NY Times: “The immigration raid last week on an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia owned by two South Korean manufacturers was yet another setback for what had been a fast-growing industry in the United States. The sector was already beleaguered by lower-than-expected demand for electric vehicles, tariffs on raw materials and the rapid phaseout of a…

WaPo: “President Donald Trump said Friday that Memphis will be the next target of a National Guard deployment, as his administration expands its use of the military to fight crime to its third Democratic-run city in recent months. “We’re going to Memphis,” Trump said during a Fox News interview, calling it a “deeply troubled” city….

Alternet: “Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is going after House Republicans after many of them blamed Democrats for this week’s murder of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. As the Daily Beast reported Friday, Crockett went on “The Breakfast Club” to share her thoughts on the national climate in the wake of this week’s fatal shooting of the Trump ally and MAGA movement…

Political Wire: “Rep. Tim Moore (R-NC) is betting big against President Trump’s economy, NOTUS reports. “Moore, a North Carolina freshman who’s lauded Trump for his economic leadership, has poured up to $245,000 of his own cash into an exotic investment fund that earns him money when a key stock market index falters.””

NY Times: “Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three other freshmen from a historically Black college held a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. — a nonviolent protest that motivated students across the nation to rally, march and picket — died…