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Was the Trump campaign’s messing with Diana Denman on Ukraine really proof of...
Good day Austin: A question I have yet to get it is, Why can’t First Reading be longer? But, in anticipation of that question, the answer is, yes it can be, and here it is. And, in anticipation of a...
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Chuck Todd meets the press, or, at any rate, some Statesman reporters and...
Good morning Austin: Chuck Todd, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, host of MTP Daily on MSNBC, and political director for NBC News, is in town for SXSW. Monday, he did a panel with the cast of...
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Notes from Beto and Will’s livestreamed, bipartisan, Texas-to-D.C. town hall...
Good day Austin: Somewhere, about 12 hours into his excellent adventure with his congressional colleague Will Hurd, Beto O’Rourke reflected yesterday on the prerequisites of a great road trip. There...
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Matthew Dowd on how an independent (maybe him) could beat Ted Cruz in 2018
Good morning Austin: I had a story in Sunday’s paper about the early action in the 2018 race for the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Cruz, with Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic congressman from El Paso,...
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Roger Stone to Alex on Infowars: “I’m Jonesing to appear before the committee.’
Good day Austin Let’s start with Marlanna VanHoose singing the National Anthem at President Trump’s rally last night in Louisville, Kentucky. Wow. OK. Now to the news. The House Intelligence...
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How Austin mom Jinny Suh is taking on anti-vaxxers, President Trump and RFK...
Good day Austin: Jinny Suh is a South Austin mother with a baby and a four-and-half-year-old, a lawyer who received a bachelor’s and master’s in biology and the founder and leader of Immunize Texas,...
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Rick Perry takes break from Cabinet duties to intervene in Aggie GlowStickGate
Good day Austin: Well, I suppose glow sticks do come under the purview of the Department of Energy. Maybe. After all, all you do is crack them and they produce light, which is some crazy science,...
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`When Trump says something, I believe him.’ On telephone town hall,...
Good day Austin: U.S. Rep. John Carter, the rock-ribbed Round Rock Republican, had an hour-long telephone town hall Wednesday night from his Capitol office. I listened on my lap top. Telephone town...
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Now that’s real news. On Alex Jones’ Pizzagate apology and the perils of...
Good morning Austin: Woe is unto Alex Jones. Or so it seemed. On Friday, Jones did the unthinkable. He apologized for his role in spreading the Pizzagate story. “Alex Jones here with an important...
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If this Trump thing doesn’t work out, how about Ben Sasse for president?
Good morning Austin: If this Trump thing doesn’t work out, Ben Sasse, the 45-year-old Republican senator from Nebraska, could end up being our next president. Or, if this Trump thing really doesn’t...
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Beto from the get-go. O’Rourke gets running start in campaign against Ted Cruz
Good morning Austin: Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic congressman from El Paso, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Cruz Friday in his hometown and then traveled to Dallas, Waco,...
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Et tu, Jared? Roger Stone tells Alex Jones that Kushner is conspiring with...
Good day Austin: Forget small-screen reality TV. Seventy-five days in office, and President Trump is emerging as a tragic figure of Shakespearean dimensions, worthy of Macbeth, Hamlet or Julius...
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The education of Briscoe Cain: On the schooling of Jonathan Stickland 3.0.
(An image passed around by members of the Texas House after the confrontation between Reps. John Zerwas and Briscoe Cain during the budget debate last week.) Good morning Austin: Briscoe Cain is a...
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It’s not lack of an ID but the `uninformed and misinformed state of the Texas...
(A voter ID ad being used as part of the voter education campaign by the office of Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos.) Good day Austin: Voter ID in Texas is back in the news. As Chuck Lindell...
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Under disability flag, advocates held all-night vigil at Capitol seeking...
Good morning Austin: About 25 people in wheelchairs and other disability advocates spent last night into this morning on the sidewalk in front of the south sate to the Capitol, an all-night vigil...
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On the eve of his own child custody trial, Alex Jones suggests Obama’s...
Good morning Austin: I had not intended to write about Alex Jones in today’s First Reading. I have a story in today’s Statesman about a child custody trial involving Jones and his ex-wife that I’ll...
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In Alex Jones’ moment of truth, the call should go out, `Get me Roger Stone’
Good morning Austin: Alex Jones is expected to testify at the child custody trial he is engaged in with his ex-wife Kelly Jones at the Travis County Courthouse today. Meanwhile, Roger Stone –...
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Alex Jones: `We’re the most bona fide, hard-core, Real McCoy thing there is.’
Good morning Austin: I don’t know, but I think before the Alex Jones trial is over I may have to put some money in the Infowars coffers and buy me some Caveman. It’s the ultimate in true...
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Sex and drugs and alcohol, gleanings from the Alex Jones Famous Fiction...
Good morning Austin: I was sitting on a bench yesterday in the Travis County Courthouse where the Alex Jones-Kelly Jones child custody trial was in its fourth day, my head down looking at my laptop,...
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In midst of custody battle, Alex Jones reveals that at 16, ‘I’d already had...
Good Monday Austin: On Saturday afternoon Alex Jones tweeted this. LIVE: Alex Jones Responds to Sandy Hook Vampire https://t.co/oChA78oeHL #tcot pic.twitter.com/1WjBb6Cboo — Alex Jones...
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