Selected Writing on Politics
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Can Truman’s 1948 Not-So-Secret Weapon Elect Harris?
Democracy of Hope, Sept. 27, 2024
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Unmasking the Klansman
Texas Observer, November/December 2023
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How Democrats Can Win in 2022
Austin American Statesman, Sept. 29, 2021
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Edwin Edwards and the Politics of a Bygone South
New Orleans Advocate, July 28, 2021
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Texas Democrats must not give up in 2022
San Antonio Express News, June 28, 2021
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Texas Democrats hoping for Hail Matthew pass in 2022?
Waco Tribune-Herald, April 28, 2021
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Find a rope, get a tree: That's the sorry history of lynching, not the justice we need now
USA Today, April 11, 2021
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Opinion: Texas Democrats flopped in 2020 but could flip the House in 2022
Houston Chronicle, Jan 27, 2021
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The African American hands that picked senators in Georgia have been a long time coming
USA Today, Jan. 21, 2021
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Blue Wave eludes Democrats, but Hope laps at Texas’ shores
Austin American Statesman, Nov. 18, 2020
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Donald Trump may end what George Wallace started.
The Hill, by Dan Carter and Paul Stekler July 21, 2020
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O’Rourke-Cruz race has already changed the future of Texas politics
Austin American Statesman, Nov. 4, 2018
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Op-Ed: George Wallace stoked the fire of racial division that Trump carried all the way to the White House.
Los Angeles Times, by Dan Carter, Paul Stekler Sept. 23, 2018
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Opinion: "The real meaning of Martin Luther King Jr’s Mountaintop speech.
Washington Post April 2, 2018
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Until Democrats can reach Latinos, Texas can’t turn “purple
Austin American Statesman, Dec. 11, 2016
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For Democrats, What Now?
Austin American Statesman, Nov 9, 2016
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The problem with one-party state government in Texas
Austin American Statesman, Sept 3, 2016
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Voting restrictions will not stand
Austin American Statesman, May 12, 2014
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Change We Can Really Believe in?
Frontline, November 2008
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Wallace set the Woods on fire
Austin American Statesman, Oct. 6, 2012
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Our visit to Ralph Reed, trying to film him for “Vote for Me”
In the Pink, July 24, 2006
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Working for later imprisoned Congressman Bill Jefferson’s mayoral campaign in New Orleans
In the Pink, June 27, 2006