Commentary & Opinion

Commentary & Opinion

Republican legislators: control the curriculum; tiptoe around slavery and racism, rewrite history

By David Almaraz | May 13, 2021

Richard Raymond, lone Democrat to support that effort

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Farewell to an Icon: Judge George P. Kazen

By David Almaraz | April 30, 2021

A man of courage and integrity

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The roots of Central American migration: gang violence, civil war, poverty, the lack of employment to sustain a family

By By Rev. Phillip G. Ley, OFM Conv | April 28, 2021

The matter needs serious bi-partisan attention

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Utterances of racism 52 years ago persist indelibly in memory

By Carlos Valle Jr. | April 5, 2021

The jailer in Palmetto, GA evoked characters in The Heat of the Night

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Former U.S. Army Lt. Col., now Texas GOP Chair Allen West: a fear-monger removed from military service for torturing an Iraqi detainee

By Dr. Carlos Valle Jr. | March 29, 2021

West in Laredo as part of right wing foray to document non-existent dangers of non-existent “border crisis” rooted — like the border wall — in hate and xenophobia

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Hinojosa counters Gov. Abbot’s claim in Mission that migrants have brought COVID into Texas

By Gilberto Hinojosa, Texas Democratic Chair | March 10, 2021

This rhetoric of the border being a lawless and violent place, and blaming Latino migrants for bringing in COVID-19 into Texas is racist and dangerous, and it’s downright incorrect. 

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John Lewis: crossing the bridge, then and now

By Rev. T. Carlos Anderson and Rev. Jim Harrington | March 2, 2021

Well we could learn from his “good trouble”

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Who told his cheering mob to march to the Capitol and blatantly lied to them, telling them he would be marching with them?

By David Almaraz | February 27, 2021

Why was Trump disappointed that those around him were not excited and gleeful as he was as the Capitol building was being desecrated?

Evil evinced by the likes of Cruz, Taylor Greene, and Boebert is entangled in deceit, but cannot stand the light of truth

By Carlos Valle, Jr. | February 8, 2021

We must not give in to proponents of authoritarian rule; the man who despises another will never make anything of him

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Trump’s unforgivable response to the pandemic cost 420,000 American lives; on Day 1 he lied about the size of his inaugural crowd; on his last day in office, he lied about an election stolen from him

By David Almaraz | January 27, 2021

Let me review what I believe will be the low points of the Trump legacy