It's been a while since we've had a trans person elected to their national legislature.   In fact there have been only six trans p...

I've been saying for a while now that trans folks need to be on the legislative bodies that the local, state and national level writ...

Y'all know I have no love for Rep. Steve King, the unrepentant racist who has represented Iowa's 4th Congressional District for 18...

When we get to cast ballots in the general election this November, Texas Democrats are only nine tantalizing flipped seats away from gaini...

There are a lot of folks who are shocked (or in the case of Bernie supporters angry) at what took place last night.   I'm not.  I'...

Tony Buzbee spent $13 million of his own money in an attempt to get a chair he claimed he didn't want or need.   In the end he was blo...

The November 5 elections left the mayor's chair and several council seats in runoffs. The City Council District B race was removed f...

Our Houston municipal elections back on November 5 led to the mayoral race and several city council  races going into runoffs. One of th...

No thanks to a last minute jacked up ruling from the Republican Texas Secretary of State Ruth R Hughs, the election results in Harris Cou...

It has been four years since we last had a municipal election, and that 2015 Houston municipal one was a painful and conflicting emotion i...

Since one of the things I talk about on this blog is politics from a trans perspective, I do pay attention to what's going on at the c...

Back in 2015 Bill King narrowly lost in a December runoff to current mayor Sylvester Turner in large part because ethnically diverse Houst...

When I was a student at UH, the 1980 presidential election was happening during my freshman year.  While I eventually cast my ballot in ...