’Tis the Season for Politics

Ramiro Luna-Hinojosa from Somos Tejas joins us to break down the biggest races and surprises from the primary election.

This week we have a jam-packed special episode with our friend Ed Espinoza from Progress Texas. Ed is helping us break down some of the biggest races on the ballot as we all get ready to head out to vote!

We discuss Abbott’s trifecta of failures: COVID-19, the border, and the grid

The ballot is set and the candidates are on their marks. And the biggest mark of all, Gov. Greg Abbott, is taking fire from the right and left over his failure to secure the grid.

The ballot is set and the candidates are on their marks. And the biggest mark of all, Gov. Greg Abbott, is taking fire from the right and left over his failure to secure the grid.

We discuss some last-minute filings in key state races, a sobering new investigation into what’s happening to troops at the border, and where did Sid Miller’s Borat 2 appearance go?

From abortion to vaccines the GOP continues to oppose public health measures in the name of being “pro-life.”

There are many turkeys in Texas politics that won’t get pardoned this year but that doesn’t mean we don’t have some things to be thankful for.

Beto O’Rourke’s record-breaking 24-hr fundraising haul puts Gov. Abbott on notice.

We discuss: Ted Cruz has an angry bird on his tail and Louie Gohmert flirts with disaster.

Progressives see the silver lining on Election Night and Gov. Abbott continues his slide to the far right.

The Texas GOP banned trans kids from sports, mask and vaccine mandates in schools, and now they are coming for the books.

Austin CM Greg Casar has been a nemesis of the regressive GOP state legislature who often takes direct aim at his policy agenda — now he’s looking to go over their heads in Congress.

Both men continue their anti-democratic efforts from appointing a Trump legal team member as top elections official to pushing Trump’s statewide audit election request.

Texas GOP has been busy gerrymandering election maps but Donald Trump says Republicans aren’t voting in 2022 if 2020 election “fraud” isn’t “solved.”

Donald Trump is adding to the pile-on of Gov. Abbott but he’s also now endorsing in the GOP primary for Texas Senate.

Texas Republicans barred cities from reducing Police funding and yet “Save Austin Now” falsely claims Prop A is needed to adequately fund the department.

Texas Republicans claim to be “race-blind” yet they managed to reduce black and brown representation even people of color represented 95% of the state’s growth.

From Fox News to Donald Trump, from the border to Beto O’Rourke it’s been a week of very bad news for Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

We discuss how Texas’ abortion ban and poor handling of COVID was a big factor in the failed recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

We discuss the proposed I-35 expansion project from segregation to how we can “stitch our city back together” with the right plan in this special edition of the SignalCast.

Gov. Abbott sparked rage across the political spectrum when he tried to ban abortion but said it’s OK for victims of rape to do so before six weeks. He also showed he needed a lesson in human reproduction.

The bills Republicans managed to get passed this session are a right-wing fever dream and yet they still weren’t satisfied. They came back to further make life harder for women and people of color during this special session.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick falsely blames black people and Democrats for Texas’ low vaccination rates and GOP plows ahead with their voter suppression bill

Salman Bhojani, the former Mayor Pro-Tem of Euless, Texas, is challenging Sen. Kelly Hancock for SD 9. With bipartisan support, he’s focused on the fight to regain local control.

As Democrats trickle back Republicans are able to make quorum to pass voter suppression, anti-abortion, anti-trans, and COVID precaution legislation.

Gov. Abbott is being sued by virtually every local government over his ban on mask and vaccine mandates.

We break down the latest twists and turns of the Texas Democrats quorum break and the fight against Gov Abbott’s consolidation of power.

As a surge in COVID overtakes Texas hospitals, Gov. Abbott did the worst thing possible — he took legal measures from local governments to contain the spread of the virus.

Another day another executive order from Gov. Abbott that blocks local governments from implementing mask or vaccine mandates, or capacity limits for businesses.

Greg Abbott received a $1M donation from the largest profiteer of the winter storm, meanwhile his quest to suppress voting access continues.

With Joe Deshotel off this week, Jessica Montoya Coggins and David Leffler discuss the conversations they’ve had with a number of Democratic representatives about their fight to pass federal voting rights legislation.

We chat with State Representative Joe Deshotel about what Democrats plan to discuss with US senators about protecting American voting rights.

Gov. Abbott continues to campaign on taxpayer dollars while holding the salaries of over 2,000 families hostage to his right-wing agenda.

As Texas GOP Chair Allen West enters the race for Governor we discuss what’s on the special session agenda, what CPAC is, and get an inside view of how capitol staffers feel about being defunded.

Texas Democrats reach 80% vaccination while GOP allows variants to persist. VP Harris comes to the border and Trump follows behind to see the wall he never built.

Greg Abbott says he backs the blue but cuts funding for crime prevention and law enforcement, says he supports family values, and vetos anti-domestic violence and child abuse legislation. What gives?

It’s voter intimidation and retribution vs voter inspiration: We compare and contrast a week of Gov. Abbott’s temper tantrum with Beto’s tour for voting rights. Plus, when to expect the next big fight.

What does gun deregulation, voter suppression, use of force, historical revision all have in common? They are the Jim Crow-era tactics for the modern GOP.

The Texas Democratic Party launches an aggressive campaign to register 2 million new voters and Beto makes his way across the state as the GOP turns barbs to each other.

Texas Democrats vow to continue to fight against SB 7 as GOP leaders take aim at each other and Gov. Abbott threatens to defund the legislature.

As the legislative session comes to a close Dan Patrick calls for an immediate special session to pass anti-transgender, anti-local control and other conservative “priority” bills.

With Austin’s Prop B passed, GOP backers move to next line of attack on the City of Austin — police funding.

Welcome to another episode of SignalCast!

Signal’s Joe Deshotel and Jessica Montoya-Coggins discuss the busy week in state politics, including the Texas legislature, the race for Texas governor, and the polls coming out about how Texans feel about the budget, guns and a number of other issues.