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  • The Weekly TribCast: Episode 38

    By Elise Hu

    Evan returns for this week's TribCast, in which the podcast gang takes up campaign finance, the Hispanic Republicans of Texas, Gov. Rick Perry's taxes and the committee shakeup in the Texas Senate. Full Story 

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  • The Brief: July 21, 2010

    By David Muto

    Hispanic Republicans of Texas made its public debut Tuesday. Even the group's leaders are even willing to admit that the political atmosphere could be friendlier. Full Story 

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  • They Want Their GOTV

    By Erika Aguilar, KUT News

    The push to get out the vote is underway. Democrats in Austin scattered about town Saturday morning to reach out to registered voters and sign up new ones for the November election — a strategy they banked on in 2008. But as Erika Aguilar of KUT News reports, they've got competition. Full Story 

    Democrats and Republicans have started their efforts to register voters for the 2010 election in Texas.
    Credit: Courtesy KUT

  • Mark Jones: The TT Interview

    By Matt Stiles

    The chairman of the political science department at Rice University recently ranked Texas House members' partisanship based on their 2009 legislative votes. Our interactive chart highlights what he describes as Texas' increasingly polarized political environment. Full Story 

    Mark P. Jones, political science chair at Rice University.
    Credit: Mark P. Jones

  • All Tea-ed Up

    By Morgan Smith

    If the rainbow flavors of the Tea Party feature a common taste, it’s that of fiscally restrained government — and the anti-Washington and pro-state fervor that comes along with it. Not coincidentally, that was the overwhelming theme of the GOP's recent convention, setting the tone — as the Democrats did in their state gathering — for the November general election. Full Story 

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  • Rice Poli Sci Chair Mark Jones on House Partisanship

    By Matt Stiles

    Mark P. Jones, political science chairman at Rice University, recently ranked Texas House members' partisanship based on their 2009 legislative votes. The study, which we've used to create an interactive chart, shows Texas' increasingly polarized political environment, Jones says in an interview. Full Story 

    Mark P. Jones, political science chair at Rice University.
    Credit: Mark P. Jones

  • The Tail on the Donkey

    By Ross Ramsey

    It's impossible to know exactly which elections will be close in November. But with Libertarian candidates in more than a dozen House races that are on the Republican and Democratic target lists, signed up for the two Texas congressional seats on the GOP's national target list, and in the statewide races, too, here's a question: Are the Libertarians giving Texas Democrats a electoral boost? Full Story 

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  • Enthusiasm, Yes. But Can the Democrats Win?

    By Ben Philpott, KUT News

    The Texas Democrats wrapped up their convention in Corpus Christi on Saturday, and the party's grass roots activists headed home newly energized to elect their candidates — including Bill White as governor. But as Ben Philpott of KUT and the Tribune reports, excitement may only be able to carry them so far. Full Story 

    Gubernatorial candidate Mayor Bill White works the rope line of supporters after his keynote speech at the Texas Democratic Convention Friday night in Corpus Christi, Tex.
    Credit: Spencer Selvidge

  • Dave Carney: The TT Interview

    By Ross Ramsey

    During last weekend's GOP convention in Dallas, the chief consultant to Rick Perry's re-election campaign talked to the Tribune about the strategy behind his strategy, why many people believe a Perry run for president is coming, the mistake that Bill White is making, the canard of the "39 Percent Governor" and the whole states-versus-the-feds thing. Full Story 

    Gov. Rick Perry after his primary victory on March 2, 2010.
    Credit: Caleb Bryant Miller

  • TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

    By Evan Smith

    M. Smith's interview with the new chair of the Texas GOP, Philpott on Republicans and Tea Partiers living in harmony, Aguilar on Immigration and Customs Enforcement's not-yet-released strategic plan, Ramshaw's tragic tale of out-of-state kids in Texas treatment centers, Grissom on how budget cuts could impact juvenile justice, Stiles' awesome new population app, Galbraith on the decline of the Ogallala Aquifer, Hamilton's interview with the commissioner of higher education and the debut of Hu's new video debate series: The best of our best from June 14 to 19, 2010. Full Story 

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  • Steve Munisteri: The TT Interview

    By Morgan Smith

    The state GOP’s new chair talked to the Tribune on Tuesday about the party’s fiscal condition, redistricting, fundraising across partisan aisles, how to unify with the Tea Party and the status of his relationship with his dethroned predecessor, Cathie Adams. Full Story 

    Steve Munisteri campaigning for Texas GOP chairman.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • Let's Stay Together

    By Ben Philpott, KUT News

    Can the Republican establishment in Texas and the various Tea Party groups find enough common ground to keep the state GOP from splintering? Mississippi governor Haley Barbour told convention delegates this weekend that they have no choice. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune. Full Story 

    Debra Medina on stage, after introducing another speaker at a We Texans rally during the state GOP convention.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • The Brief: June 14, 2010

    By David Muto

    It's summertime in Texas, and things only got warmer this weekend in Dallas as the state Republican party whipped up clouds of hot, thick anti-Washington fervor. Full Story 

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  • Spreading the Gospel of Texas

    By Ben Philpott, KUT News

    Since George W. Bush exited the White House, Texas has lost in place at the center of the political universe. But Texas Republicans, who gathered this weekend in Dallas, say there's still plenty here for the rest of the nation to emulate and embrace. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune. Full Story 

    Gov. Rick Perry, closing his speech to the first general session of the Texas Republican Convention.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • The Chair Yields

    By Morgan Smith

    The ouster of Cathie Adams as the titular head of the Republican Party of Texas was the biggest news at its biennial convention this weekend. There was also open hostility toward Speaker Joe Straus, predictable fretting about a rift between moderates and conservatives and, of course, a laser-like focus on the state GOP's common enemy: Washington. Full Story 

    Gov. Rick Perry being endorsed by his former GOP primary rival, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, at the 2010 Republican Party of Texas Convention.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich