Point Austin: Reasons to Be Thankful

At holiday time, mixed blessings are all we have

"...his cronies in reach of power – propaganda media, gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. – remain in place, and the..."

Nov. 24, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Beto O'Rourke's Punk Rock Politics

Can the congressman from El Paso really take a Senate seat from Ted Cruz?

"...don't. They found that there is racial and ethnic gerrymandering in Texas...."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Voter IDon’t

The GOP’s bad week for gerrymandering and voter rights

Sept. 1, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: Sine Done

The dregs from last month's special session

"...is the seventh ruling against Texas for racially motivated gerrymandering since the maps were drawn in 2011, Abbott's decree..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Congressional Districts to Get Re-Mapped

Judge rules Doggett and Farenthold’s districts unconstitutional

"...maps fixed everything, writing that the "discriminatory taint" of gerrymandering was not removed by the interim maps, and that..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: Stretching Toward a Sunset

Don't praise the Senate GOP for working quickly to pass what's needed

"...to Ardmore, Okla., to break quorum and kill a gerrymandering effort. He bemoaned from the back mic that his..."

July 21, 2017 News Column by Mary Tuma

Last Day at the Lege

Sine die arrives as threat of a special session looms

"...that, last week the federal court hearing the ongoing gerrymandering case from the 2011 redistricting dropped none-too-subtle hints that..."

May 29, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: Elsewhere Under the Dome

Sine die is almost here

"...Court handed down a brutal ruling against a similar gerrymandering effort in North Carolina... No word yet on when..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Point Austin: The Way Things Are

Another victory for judicial fairness leads to … more discrimination at the polls

"...candidates to win elections – witness the aggressively unfair gerrymandering of the Travis County congressional delegation – only succeed..."

April 14, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: A Victory for Travis

Court decision on districts raises possibility for fairer politics

March 17, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Through the Lege Looking-Glass

Alice's tea party was never as mad as the Lege this session

"...our polarized political times, following upon the extremely partisan gerrymandering that was institutionalized in full force under former Texas..."

March 10, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Lege Lines: Deliberately Discriminatory

Voter ID's future in Texas, without the DoJ

"...voter ID or redistricting. (Lest we forget, Texas' last gerrymandering is still in the courts, with a ruling due..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Waxing “Presidential”

Trump delivers the same threats in a more polite package

"...longer be defending minority voting rights or addressing racial gerrymandering designed to protect Republican majorities. More ominously, Trump announced..."

March 3, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: It Is the Worst of Times, It Is the Worst of Times

It is the age of little wisdom, it is the age of foolishness

"...right supports voter suppression, denial of citizenship, and aggressive gerrymandering – not so all citizens can better share in..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Lege Lines: A New Path for State House Dems

The promise of new Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Chris Turner

"...seat in 2012 after losing in 2010 because Republican gerrymandering in 2011 drew him into a blue seat. He's..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: The Whiplash Generation

On trying to maintain humane sanity in a dangerously insane era

"...can also be counted upon to ignore the racial gerrymandering and voter suppression now in common practice in Texas,..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Slamming the Golden Door

The sheriff, the governor, the president – and the new politics of fear

"...Republicans dominating political structures (thanks in large part to gerrymandering and voter suppression) and their demagoguery poisoning public discourse,..."

Jan. 27, 2017 News Column by Michael King

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...in with big and clear agendas – budget slashing, gerrymandering, voter suppression, abortion bans – that defined where conflicts..."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Point Austin: Circle the Firing Squad

When you look for villains, look in the right direction

"...decades-long project of official voter suppression accompanied by radical gerrymandering, with the result that in most states, its designated..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Column by Michael King

State Lege: Same, Same, but Different

We could have told you in advance, not much change happening at state level

"...Blame gerrymandering, turnout, voter suppression, and the disemboweling of the Voting..."

Nov. 11, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

U.S. House of Representatives

Redistricting happens when? Not soon enough!

"...a winner in the Texas con­gres­sional races, it was gerrymandering. With neither Senate seat up for grabs, there could..."

Nov. 11, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Congratulations on the Struggle

The Supreme Court decision rests upon political agitation

"...ignored or dismissed the ongoing GOP campaigns of extreme gerrymandering and voter suppression that have worked to deliver the..."

July 1, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: All or Nothing Is No Way Forward

Will the most hopeful mass leftist movement in recent years end up handing the presidency to Donald Trump?

"...the Bush presidency, 9/11, those military actions, aggressive Republican gerrymandering (of which the Democrats are just as guilty, but..."

June 17, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Chronicle Endorsements

The Chronicle’s endorsements for the May 24 run-offs

"...the Voting Rights Act against GOP anti-minority and anti-Austin gerrymandering. Samp­son, a retired city project manager, and perennial candidate..."

May 13, 2016 News Feature

Cruz Quits Presidential Race

Inevitable exit after Indiana collapse

"...his own Senate run: His decision to push through gerrymandering of the state house pushed back the primaries, and..."

May 3, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Chronicle Endorsements

"...the Voting Rights Act against GOP anti-minority and anti-Austin gerrymandering. Of his opponents, attorney James Nortey is a formidable..."

Feb. 12, 2016 News Feature

News Roundup: Sad Stories for Christmas

Foster care unconstitutional; voting rights rolled back; and more

"...Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and others over discriminatory gerrymandering in legislative redistricting, but his primary focus is the..."

Dec. 21, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Headlines

"...Gerrymandering remains, as a U.S. District Court in San Antonio..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature

News Roundup: Arrests, Assaults, and Assholes

When city politics get dirty

"...• Gerrymandering Remains: A US District Court in San Antonio has..."

Nov. 9, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Du Bois v. Washington?

Jeff Travillion formally enters Pct. 1 Commissioners Race

"...Rights Act when the Legislature violated the VRA by gerrymandering black and Latino voters out of their home congressional..."

Oct. 30, 2015 News Post by Michael King

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