Labor Day is the traditional start for Houston civic campaigns, but this 2015 election cycle is not any normal electoral cycle.  The polit...

I  have attended a few Houston GLBT Political Caucus meetings before and after my Texan in Exile days in Da Ville, but this one was going...

Well, the opening shots in the battle to keep the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance on Houston's law books have been fired . On Wednesd...

No thanks to the Texas Supreme Court, I and 2.3 million Houstonians (for now) no longer have local human rights coverage in my hometown. D...

"..It was unacceptable for transgendered people who are “anatomically another gender” to be treated as anything but the anatomical ge...

We have a high stakes presidential election coming up, and political junkies and people who pay attention to the issues are aware that wil...

Last night was election night in Eureka Springs, AR  and it resulted in another loss for the Forces of Intolerance. The Eureka Springs Cit...

The wonderful thing for me about living in my hometown is that ever since I moved back home in May 2010, Annise Parker has been my mayor...

It's raining here in Houston, and it's matching my mood as I type this post sorting through the news coming from a forgettable pol...

Hey, whatever it takes to get you peeps to the polls tomorrow. Here's civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who took a beatdow...

If you are planning to vote in this year's critical election starting on October 20, you need to be registered by today October 6 is...

In a few hours when the polls open in Oklahoma, Paula Sophia gets an opportunity to make some modern transgender history. She is in a runo...

I've said the most dangerous bigot is one that has the power to write legislation, and Tennessee Teapublican state senator Stacey Campfi...

As I keep pointing out, Wendy Davis isn't the only woman running at the top of the Texas Democratic party ticket this fall.   Longtime ...

In the wake of me writing about Paula Sophia being poised to make trans history and possibly get elected to the Oklahoma Legislature on Augu...

One of the things that is irritating me in liberal-progressive world is people who are obsessing about the 2016 presidential elections and w...

One  thing I actually agree with Dan Patrick on. And it's why the Teapublicans have been doing so much shady, illegal and unconstitu...

Early voting started yesterday for the primary runoff elections in Texas yesterday.   While most of the media will be focused on GOP side ...

Back in the 2010 election cycle, the world's eyes were focused on Oklahoma as Brittany Novotny unsuccessfully tried to unseat homobigote...

A few months ago I wrote about on these electronic pages former 2003 Miss America Erika Harold running for Congress in the Illinois Republic...