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ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Embree was cohost with Thorne Dreyer on Rag Radio interviewing author Martin … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Austin 'Red Squad', Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State, Martin J. Murray, SDS, Surveillance, Texas
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ALICE EMBREE / Town Hall Lessons in Accountability / A Poison Bill and its Antidote
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / May 26, 2025 This article originally appeared in Alice Embree’s Substack. The New York Times provided the autopsy report on the budget bill that passed by one vote. The tax and spending … Continue reading
Jim Hightower : Best Little Chicken Sanctuary in Texas
“Me and my Gal.” Painting of Farm Street chickens in Bastrop by Jo Knoblach Castillo. Inset photo below: Free-ranging Bastrop chickens. Photo by Terry Hagerty / Bastrop Advertiser.The Best Little Chicken Sanctuary in Texas A flock of feral chickens has … Continue reading
Lamar W. Hankins : Freedom of Conscience in Hays County, Texas
Kyle, Texas-area Constable James Kohler: “If they can’t pledge allegiance to that flag, they need to get the hell out of the United States. Image from Hays Free Press. Respect for freedom of conscience missing in Hays County By Lamar W. Hankins … Continue reading
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Tagged Freedom of Conscience, Hays County, Lamar W. Hankins, Pledge of Allegiance, Supreme Court, Texas
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Peter Montgomery : Newt Gingrich Wants to Make America More Like Texas!
Newt Gingrich: Texas Number One!Worse campaign promise ever?Newt Gingrich wants tomake America ‘like Texas’ By Peter Montgomery / AlterNet / May 18, 2011 In his presidential campaign announcement on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show last week, former House Speaker … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Elections, Conservative Politics, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Texas, Texas Legislature
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Lauren Kelley : Packing Heat on Texas Campuses
Texas Governor Rick Perry fires a six shooter at an event in Fort Worth. Photo by Rodger Mallison / AP.Pretty scary: Texas about to make it legalto carry guns on college campuses By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet / February 21, … Continue reading
Carlos Calbillo : On the Passing of Carlos Guerra
“America’s friendliest angry looking retired columnist… and feared by fish.” — Carlos Guerra, on Twitter.Columnist and Sixties Chicanoactivist Carlos Guerra dies See “Memories from ‘the day’: On the passing of Carlos Guerra,” by Carlos Calbillo / The Rag Blog, Below. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carlos Calbillo, Carlos Guerra, Chicano Movement, Journalists, La Raza Unida, MAYO, Mexican-Americans, Sixties, Social Activism, Texas, Thorne Dreyer
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Diana Claitor : Why We Need To Protect Texas Inmates
Texas Jail Project protests at Taylor County Jail in 2008. Image from Abilene Reporter-News. Texas Jail Project director Diana Claitor will be Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio on KOOP 91.7 FM in Austin, Tuesday, October 19, 2-3 p.m. (CST). … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice Reform, Diana Claitor, Prison Conditions, Texas
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Greg Moses : Deporting Texas Student Was Big Mistake
Saad Nabeel. Photo by Shehab Uddin / Der Spiegel.What the Times forgot to mention:Story of deported Texas studentAwaits President in Dallas By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / August 9, 2010 While the New York Times Monday morning proclaims … Continue reading
Green Party Scandal : Dime’s Worth of Difference
A difference between Democrats and Republicans? Ask FDR.And furthermore:There IS a dime’s worth of difference By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver / The Rag Blog / July 5, 2010 [On June 30 The Rag Blog posted an article by Tom Cleaver titled … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic Party, Dirty Tricks, Electoral politics, Green Party, Republican Party, Texas, Thomas Cleaver, Two Party System
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Texas Republicans : A Platform for Atilla the Hun
Texas Gov. Rick Perry welcomes the flock at the first general session of the Republican Party of Texas convention on June 11, 2010, in Dallas. Photo from AP.A document for the (middle) ages:Platform of the Texas Republican Party By Ted … Continue reading
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Tagged Republican Party, Rick Perry, Right Wing Extremists, Ted McLaughlin, Texas, Texas Republican Platform
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Michael Dell : Did He Violate Texas Antitrust Laws?
The artist as a young nerd: Michael Dell at Dell Computers production facility in Austin, 1989. At age 24 he was already a multi-millionaire. Photo by Rebecca McEntee / AP / Academy of Achievement. Monopolies in Texas A new era … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Feldman, Corporate Corruption, Dell Computers, Michael Dell, Monopolies, Texas
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