A few years ago, a drought really hurt our family farm.

Water is personal to me.

I will fight to protect it for all Texans.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.

Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Hutto. Fort McKavett. San Angelo.

Texans are coming together to ask questions about why data centers are being built in their backyards (literally), why transmission lines are cropping up to scar their land, and why data centers are being built in dry areas. 1/

They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.

Here’s the thing—especially on April 15: cutting the IRS isn't some abstract budget trim. It's a tax cut delivered through weaker enforcement. And it mostly goes to people with the most scope to hide income.

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 158
Active Redistricting Cases: 45
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 84
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 31

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Well put.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The depth of the Republican betrayal of the American people is that even as the GOP leadership sees the president becoming increasingly deranged and dangerous, they're still thinking only of their own petty, meaningless political careers.

Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia

The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration

An Arch Too Far: Trump's Vanity Monument and the Dishonoring of Arlington National Cemetery How the President's Arch Turns Hallowed Ground Into a Backdrop

The fallen buried at Arlington deserve better than to spend eternity in the shadow of someone else’s ambition. Some places should not be improved. Some views should not be interrupted. Some silences should be left alone. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Was at an event at Yale tonight, and had to peek at my phone at one point to be sure that Artemis made it home safely.

They stole our hearts.

Plus—it’s so joyous to be proud of something.

The Hungarian Candidate Is Orbán's Decline Trump's Fall?

On Sunday, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections. These elections loom large the world over. Viktor Orbán is a central figure in the international far right and his loss would be blow to familiar figures like JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are his pupils.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

I am, and it is, and no, they don't

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Trump’s ICE has arrested the wife of a soldier while he prepares to go fight Trump’s War in Iran. LP Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens joins MSNOW to highlight this cruelty and how it endangers our national security.

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic.

Boy, did they screw up.

Comparing Easter messages

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Oh dear. Oh my.

Big Tech is using Texans, esp rural Texans, as sacrificial lambs for AI.

They want to drain our water, jack up our power bills, and take our land so that they can reach super intelligence — the kind of AI that will automate most jobs away. 1/

Goodbye and good riddance to Pam Bondi but whoever comes next as AG will be… worse.

Sigh.

Trump says we can pay for war in Iran but can't afford childcare.

Mr. President, the billions you wasted in Iran could pay for $10 day childcare for every American family with childcare workers paid $25 an hour.

Pete Hegseth — the most unqualified Defense Secretary in modern history — blocked the promotion of two Black & two women Army officers.

These are servicemembers who earned their rank, served with distinction, and put their lives on the line for this country — & they deserve better than this mess.