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During a Wednesday interview with CNN, big cat advocate Carole Baskin slammed Texas U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn.

In video footage taken at the May 2 protest, a tall white man is seen angrily confronting protesters, who were crossing a busy Plano intersection. Scott supporters demanded the man’s arrest and the firing of a police officer they felt did little to intervene. But some conservatives insist that the protesters were in the wrong for obstructing traffic. Many have accused right-wing commentators of fomenting misplaced outrage. Rather than being upset by Scott’s horrific death, which his family ...

Rather than satisfying his opponents’ sweet tooth, West was rubbing sugar in an open wound. Earlier this month, controversy erupted over a since-deleted Facebook post made by the chair of the Democratic Party in Lamar County, located around 116 miles northeast of Dallas. In it, Chair Gary O’Connor used the word “Oreo” in reference to Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black. The disparaging term is meant to describe a Black person who has adopted the attitudes and behaviors characte...

“I can’t breathe” has become a rallying cry for supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. Those were the last words uttered by George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police in May 2020. They were also the last words of Eric Garner, a Black man who in 2014 was suffocated to death by a New York City officer. Tensions were high inside the Carroll ISD meeting, where several parents spoke to demand that the board scrap the mask mandate immediately, according to FOX 4 News. One mom sa...

It’s the latest in a series of CIA recruitment videos aiming to attract greater diversity among job candidates. The Guardian reported that other videos in the ongoing campaign have included a gay librarian and a blind receptionist. Some have applauded the Latina protagonist for her well-earned accomplishments. Others have mocked the CIA for using anti-racist language, you know, given its history. But Cruz took a different tack. In fact, the ad apparently bothered him so much that he felt th...

HB 1359s passage is one of Denton County GOP’s priorities, which the party hopes will send “a strong message” to state lawmakers. The party also resolved to launch a campaign informing Texas Republican voters about the proposition’s importance. In explaining the rationale behind the resolution, the party calls the federal bureaucracy “unaccountable” and “invasive.” It complains that needless regulations are crippling “entrepreneurial initiative and the creation of wealth,” a...

After more than a year, the country may be ready to kick COVID-19 to the curb, but many public health experts believe that some things have forever changed, regardless of when the coronavirus becomes fully contained. While the pandemic is trending in the right direction, Carlson said things certainly wont feel normal until kids can get vaccinated. That may start to happen sometime in the fall. Children are such a large part of the population that America can’t hit herd immunity until they’r...

When politicians redistrict, they’re effectively shifting political power across regions. And with prison gerrymandering, incarcerated populations are counted as part of their facility’s district, rather than part of their home community. In a report released last Monday, the TCRP warned that prison gerrymandering gives certain districts unfair advantages because prisoners in those areas are not actually part of the community. At the same time, prison gerrymandering reduces the political sw...

Video footage captured a tall white man, wearing a navy shirt and sports sunglasses, barreling toward protesters while screaming obscenities. With a buzzcut and graying goatee, the man is seen approaching a Plano officer positioned at the intersection and demanding that he “get these fucking people out of the way.” Then, the man walks toward a young Black woman and slaps at the cell phone she was using to film him. Demonstrators circle around her, and attorney Lee Merritt, who represents th...

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has sued the Biden administration over a plan that provides relief to disadvantaged farmers.