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2 Warnings Before You Vote Absentee or In Person This Month
Take time to examine your absentee ballots and Prop 1's language.
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Have I Ever Been a ‘White Savior’?
A LinkedIn post by a woman bragging about her daughter's anti-racism action is seen as problematic by BIPOC.
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Critical Race Theory: What The GOP Wants You to Believe
African American monument in Austin, Texas
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Critical Race Theory: Not The Threat The GOP Makes It Out to Be
Welcome to the right’s latest manufactured outrage: Critical Race Theory (CRT). They have no idea what it is, but they are sure it is a...
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Let’s Talk About The DC National Guard And January 6
Republicans Jim Jordan, Jim Banks and Kevin McCarthy accused Nancy Pelosi of blocking the District of Columbia National Guard from coming...
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Big News About UFOs: They Exist
I’m sure you have seen clips of the saucer-shaped squiggles dancing around in footage from a Navy fighter plane’s gun camera. Along with...
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Junkyard Voting Machines: Burnet County Is In A Fix
The Big Lie and all the rhetoric about fraudulent voting have put Burnet County Commissioners in a pickle. You see, our county’s voting...
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QAnon: Bizarre Conspiracy Theory? Alternate Reality Game? Huge Social Experiment? Or Worse?
Most of us by now have heard of the right-wing phenomenon known as QAnon. We spotted Q T-shirts at Trump rallies and read articles about...
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What If They Held An Election In TX And Almost Everyone Voted?
The Declaration of Independence asserts that a government is legitimate only if it enjoys the “consent of the governed.” But for much of...
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45 Is Still Draining The Life Out Of The GOP
So as not to promote his brand, I vowed as a New Year’s resolution never to speak the ex-president’s name again. I briefly considered...
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The Right Invented Cancel Culture
Lately, you hear a lot of right-wing politicians loudly decrying “cancel culture.” (In case you haven’t heard, it’s just “political...
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Trumpies Are Stuck in Time
In the 1970 bestseller Future Shock, Alvin Toffler wrote about the “shattering stress and disorientation” suffered by people who are...
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Antifa: Not What the Right Wants You to Think It Is
Antifa became a media sensation during the Charlotte, NC, protests and has become a fixture in the paranoid fantasies of the right. As we...
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Trump Does It Again
How many “suckers” have to suffer the consequences of Trump’s bad behavior before everyone figures out they have been duped by the...
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Just A Riot. Not An Insurrection. But Trump Is Still Guilty.
A couple of notable trends have emerged in the media fallout from January 6 and the impeachment proceedings that have dominated recent...
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