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Because Texas is governed by rational people who are patriots and revere the Constitution, there are as few COVID-19 mandates as possible in the Lone Star State. In fact, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has [...]

Every now and again, an otherwise arcane legal topic suddenly becomes relevant to contemporary political debate. At that point, general commentary suddenly...

Editor, The Messenger, In our nation of hotly divided politics, lets get one thing straight: both Republicans and Democrats suffered in Texas due to the lack of electricity during the February cold. Why did the windmills in Texas fail in the cold weather, but those in northern states keep on giving electricity during snow storms? Because Texas chose not to spend money to winterize those Texas windmills, which, according to Newsweek, provided 23% of the electricity in Texas in 2020. Why did Texa...

The Texas catastrophe shows how capitalism is destroying the planet The economic misery imposed on Texans demonstrates how neoliberalism has created a rigged market and a client state. In Texas this month, nature struck capitalism with such force that it created a modern parable: the parable of the people who did not want a government. The Texan energy system was designed to be self-sufficient in order to avoid US government regulation. By avoiding regulation, the state ducked any obliga...

With the revelation that federal investigators were looking into New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s corruption with state nursing home deaths, and state Democrats setting the stage for a possible impeachment, CNN Prime Time host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo and CNN Tonight h

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More than 4 million people in Texas don’t have power, as severe winter weather continues to strain the state’s electric grid.

1/5/2020 Until 1968, a Married Texas Woman Couldn’t Own Property or Start a Business Without Her Husband’s Permission. This Dallas Attorney Changed That Historians in the News Around this time of year, Louise Raggio’s three sons miss the smell of cookies wafting from the compact kitchen in their childhood home. On the minuscule counter space, she’d prepare dozens of fruitcakes, peanut butter confections, and lines of sugar cookies squeezed out of piping tubes to create da...

“You may all go to hell. I will go to Texas.” —Davy Crockett When news first broke that Elon Musk might be moving to Texas, most of the coverage was very “TMZ,” as one of my editors here said. People are often interesting (especially when their name begins with “Elon” and ends with “Musk”), but ideas are what we try to focus on at CleanTechnica. Now that it’s confirmed Elon Musk “moving”*, and both Tesla and SpaceX have a growing presence in the state, I think it’s a ...