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by Brewing America | Feb 11, 2021 | All, Beto O'Rourke, Joe Biden, Julian Castro, Politics, Texas Democrats | 0 |
You have to admit it: as Texans, we are a little thin-skinned when it comes to getting our share of recognition—or to put it more bluntly, we become mighty aggrieved when we are ignored, overlooked, or just plain dissed. A...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 28, 2021 | All, Business, Drilling, Energy, Joe Biden, Keystone XL, Oil, Politics | 0 |
President Joe Biden took his oath of office just before 11 a.m. on January 20. By 11:15 that day, I’d received my first email decrying the forthcoming death of America’s energy industry. A few minutes after that came a press...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 14, 2020 | All, Donald Trump, electoral college, Joe Biden, News, Politics | 0 |
Half an hour before deciding to deliver all of Texas’s 38 electoral college votes to Donald Trump and Mike Pence, the Texas electors faced a simpler vote. Who would chair their meeting? There were several contenders. Matthew...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 2, 2020 | All, brownsville, coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Joe Biden, Medicine, News | 0 |
In early July, as COVID-19 cases surged in the Rio Grande Valley and hospital beds filled with patients struggling to breathe, Congressman Filemon Vela reached out to his lifelong friend, Robert Rodriguez, for help. It wasn’t...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 16, 2020 | All, dallas, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, MAGA, News, Politics, Stop the Steal | 0 |
This weekend, a few hundred Texans gathered at Dallas City Hall to protest a stolen presidential election and, with it, the triumph of a global cabal of pedophiles, the introduction of Caracas-style economics, and the imminent...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 9, 2020 | 2020 Election, All, Democrats, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, News, Politics | 0 |
Saying that Texas Democrats had a deeply disappointing election is like saying the Sacramento Kings had a bad season. They’ve had a lot of them, so some clarification is needed. This is a pretty odd-looking one, as disasters go:...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 3, 2020 | 2020 Election, All, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, john cornyn, News, Politics | 0 |
What we’re watching: federal races 4:45 P.M., Ben Rowen Welcome to Texas Monthly’s election night live blog! At long last, the torrent of campaign ads/experimental films will mercifully cease and we will have votes to count and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 28, 2020 | 2020 Election, All, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Politics, Texas GOP | 0 |
Editor’s note: Christopher Hooks is taking stock of the Republican and Democratic parties’ electoral prospects in complementary pieces. Read his take on the Democrats here. Boy this has been a weird year, huh? The most...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 31, 2020 | 2020 Election, All, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, News, Politics | 0 |
At long last, the conventions are behind us. If you watched them both, my condolences. The Democrats’ virtual gathering was alternately grim and corny, in the party’s traditional style. One moment Michelle Obama warned the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 14, 2020 | All, Books, Joe Biden, Paul Begala, Politics, The National Podcast of Texas | 0 |
There are a surprising number of Texas references in You’re Fired: The Perfect Guide to Beating Donald Trump, veteran political strategist Paul Begala’s book focused on what it’ll take for Joe Biden to win in November. For...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 4, 2020 | All, Beto O'Rourke, Food, Joe Biden, The Culture, Whataburger | 0 |
Whataburger! It is pretty good. Those enormous hamburgers, that spicy ketchup, that honey butter chicken biscuit—all of those things are good for a quick positive association for most Texans. If you are looking for a fast...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 3, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Election, All, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Politics | 0 |
If Bernard Sanders and his brethren cruise to an easy delegate lead today and the nomination soon after, the events of last night in Dallas, when several of Joe Biden’s former rivals endorsed him at the last possible moment in...
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