Since 2024, Dems have been focused on how to win back an enigmatic set of voters: young bros. Ben Rowen checks in on how they’re doing.
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"Rehmet believed the core message of his campaign—working-class solidarity—could be the glue in a winning coalition of unions, progressives, blue-collar voters, and disaffected Republicans. Early analysis indicates just how much that was true."
ICYMI: This Saturday, progressive Taylor Rehmet squares off against a billionaire-funded Christian nationalist for a +17 Trump state senate seat in Tarrant County, a hub of the far right. Rehmet already over-performed, and is confident he’s on the verge of a stunning upset in a bellwether county.
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“The political questions facing Texas A&M are the most important questions facing the nation as a whole," writes Christoper Hooks.
Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/
If you’re looking for the definitive story on the mess @ Texas A&M, one of our state’s finest institutions (regardless of the long history of feelings my Longhorn family, and this Baylor Bear may have), we pubbed our Feb cover story by
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From the compa @jherrerx.bsky.social for @texasmonthly.bsky.social: "In the year since Trump has taken back the White House, border crossings have not stopped. What’s changed are the types of border crossings the Border Patrol is seeing."
Outside the Texas family detention center where U.S. Representatives Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett went to check on five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, a quiet protest found its voice. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/dilley-detention-jasmine-crockett-joaquin-castro/
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has boasted that border crossings have dropped to zero.
That’s not true. https://www.texasmonthly.com/article/who-is-still-crossing-the-border-trump-noem-buoys/
”The outsized religious presence was deliberate. Several had just returned from Minneapolis, where ministers have led many of the organized protests. 'We hope that the presence of clergy reminds these agents of the state of their better natures.'”
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Right after pubbing this story on ICE releasing refugees from Minnesota onto the streets of Houston and El Paso, and the refugees' lawsuit, we learned that a fed judge granted a TRO—blocking new refugee detentions and ordering release of those in custody.
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Union-backed Dem Taylor Rehmet nearly pulled off a stunning upset in November — almost winning a deep-red TX Senate seat over two billionaire-funded Republicans. He's now in a runoff with a fixture of the Texas far right. My latest, from Tarrant County, a bellwether and hub of Christian nationalism:
In a runoff election for Texas Senate District 9, which has not elected a Democrat since 1991, Taylor Rehmet is betting his pro-labor message can flip disillusioned voters. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/tarrant-county-senate-race-taylor-rehmet-seeks-upset/
A few other quick shots from the protest:
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"Could this strange, wise boy with the gentle cadence of a preacher be the one to deliver Democrats from damnation? Or at least from decades of unabated loserdom?"
Great profile of James Talarico via @allegrahobbs.bsky.social
"In Mexico and Central America, new mothers are given the drink, which is traditionally believed to help stimulate breast milk production. After a death, it’s often served to mourners during the nine days of praying the rosary."
Esther Phillips was singing and recording country music long before Beyonce or Mickey Guyton were even born. Here’s the story of the greatest country album you’ve never heard. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta... @texasmonthly.bsky.social
He went in search of a better life for his family. His brother refused to let him go alone. Only one of them survived the journey.
Inside the deadliest immigration-related disaster in American history: https://www.texasmonthly.com/interactive/san-antonio-53-migrant-deaths/
According to a memo obtained by Texas Monthly, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is behind changes to the new museum’s narration of slavery, Native Americans, and colonialism. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/alamo-rewrite-dan-patrick/
The humans love him, and so do the canines.
What happened when ICE took Seyre Mussa Traore away: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/austin-dog-trainer-asylum-seeker-detained-by-ice/
A campaign mailer with a photo of Satan, stating that "Secular Houston, with the Satanic Temple," endorsed Democrats in the upcoming CyFair ISD school board races.
Lesley Guilmart, Cleveland Lane Jr. and Kendra Camarena — a slate of pro-public education candidates who support the separation of church and state in public schools — were elected to the Cypress-Fairbanks ISD school board on Tuesday, sending a strong message that residents of the third-largest district in Texas are rejecting far-right ideology in the classroom.
How Christian Nationalist school board members in Texas campaigned vs. how they did
Rogers says she feels compelled to tell her story because of the public attacks on her “integrity and character” and the “disappointing and hurtful” way she was dismissed. “It makes me very sad because the Alamo deserves better.”
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“This is no longer a fringe movement. Christian nationalism is here, and it is deeply entrenched in our government in ways that should concern all Americans, regardless of their views on religion.”
"Religion doesn’t live outside of politics. It lives downstream.”
Charlie Kirk's death has fueled new pressure on churches to not only speak on politics - but reaffirm what their congregants already believe. I spoke to one pastor caught in the middle.
”The Ten Commandments says nothing about guns, but Deans said the Bible supports his belief in an armed public. When asked about Jesus’s instruction to 'turn the other cheek,' his reply was swift and simple: 'F— that ... This is fighting the good fight.”
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If Stephenville's new Art Briles Stadium is anything to go by, the disgraced former Baylor coach is still a local hero. https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/art-briles-stadium/
Great story about an Austin church that helps the unhoused- and is now being targeted by Attorney General Ken Paxton. Notably, this is the second church in Paxton's crosshairs; last year his office investigated + tried to shut down a church that assists migrants, sparking religious liberty concerns.
