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2023 in the rearview mirror

The big lie: Medical exemptions for abortion

Fear and Loathing, past and present

Growing up in a house full of hate

How to talk to Trump supporters

Abbott continues to shoot blanks

A vote to give teachers a break (for once)

Some Court decisions slow to have impact

A good time to consider taking up praying

A time to weep; no time to laugh

Abbott’s assault on our public schools

East Texas’ Gregg County makes top of the list

Paxton acquitted by Senate but he’s not innocent

What’s this? Tucker Carlson tells the truth?

The fake ‘trial’ of Ken Paxton

A million little ways to hate

The fires next time...

Fighting racial unity behind the Pine Curtain

When human compassion is labeled radicalism

Legislature cools its heels as it just gets hotter

Now, we’re waging a war on tots

The politics of cannibalism

Taking another swing at public education

Can’t everyone be against lynching?

Beware of those lurking haters

The race to replace Slaton ‘family values'

Don’t coddle criminal suspects like Paxton

A little less sleaze in the Legislature

The ‘Three R’s’ don’t include religion

Schaefer hoping to bring vigilantes into action

The real danger to Texas’ education system

What a ‘drag’ it is watching the legislature work

Bringing a little relief to Guatemala

Perhaps Rep. Slaton was just making a ‘funny’

East Texan leads the war on dangerous pronouns

Secession dreams roiling Texas politics

March of the MAGA Republicans

Legislature needs to tackle a real problem

Texas Republicans have a dream to delete factual history

Here’s hoping Moran will represent East Texas more effectively

Abbott’s message of cruelty seems aimed at DeSantis