Life Its Ownself

Life Its Ownself

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EXCLUSIVE: Internal GOP Senate Strategy Memo
A recent debacle in Kansas has led the Senate Majority Leader to urge Sens. Cornyn and Cruz to stay out of the state.
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Further Adventures with Marfawitz, Volume Three
Marfawitz and I day-tripped through magnificent and forbidding West Texas desert country last Friday so you wouldn’t have to.
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Slava Ukraini!
February 28, 2025, is a day that will live in infamy. But there’s still time for patriotic Americans to change the Ukraine narrative.
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Rural Texans Get the Short End of the Stick From GOP Elites
Rural Texas provides the margins of victory for the modern Texas GOP. But that doesn't mean GOP policies benefit rural Texans.
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February 2025

January 2025

Three-Point Shots, Vol. 3, No. 1: January 24, 2025
Cruelty and a lack of seriousness have become the defining characteristics of our federal and state governments.
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Cecile Richards, 1957-2025
The life of Cecile Richards, who died yesterday, should inspire us all to “Make Trouble,” the title of her 2018 book.
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The Texas Legislature Will Come to Disorder
The House Speaker’s race was a proxy for the MAGA/oligarch faction locking up state government. But it did not work out that way.
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Slouching Into 2025
If the first 10 days are any indication, this year is going to be a doozy. Can we just skip to 2026?
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“Life Its Ownself” Turns Three!
There was lots to talk about this year – a presidential race, the defenestration of moderate rural Republicans in the Texas House, and my decade as a…
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In Praise of Public Service — and Public Servants
In a national culture that mocks public service and public servants, we do well to contemplate what a wonder they are.
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