Why low voter turnout for the 2022 primaries means Texas politics are about to get more extreme
The primary electorate is usually whiter, wealthier and more ideologically extreme than...
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The primary electorate is usually whiter, wealthier and more ideologically extreme than...
Illustration by Texas Monthly; Getty Texas politicians and journalists often use football metaphors to describe legislative efforts. Representative Bryan Slaton “threw a Hail Mary pass” when he unsuccessfully attempted to tack an amendment restricting medical treatment for transgender children onto an unrelated bill about a cost-saving drug program. When a flustered House Elections Committee chairman Briscoe Cain called a hearing on a bill he claimed to have written and then abruptly adjourned the meeting after it became clear he hadn’t even read the legislation, he had “fumbled the b...