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A front-page New York Times story Saturday by Reid Epstein managed to pack in 18 hostile ideological labels into an 1,800-word story on a sadly familiar theme at the paper -- how far Texas is hurdling to “the right" politically under GOP control -- in “Can Texas Turn Further Right? Top 2 Republicans Say It Can.”  The paper is running versions of this same story every week now, often on the front page, leading NewsBusters to make the same observation: Is there any room left “on the ri...

Once there actually was a Texas politician who fixed electricity problems for the forgotten people The Watchdog recalls the story of Lyndon B. Johnson and rural electrification. Rookie Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson worked hard to convince Hill Country families to sign up for electricity.(Courtesy of LBJ Library) 7:00 AM on May 28, 2021 CDT Today as we continue to struggle with our new status in Texas as the laughingstock of the electricity industry, we are led by no-name state lawmakers lik...