Ed Espinoza on Twitter: @EdEspinoza Progress Texas on Twitter: @ProgressTX Progress Texas’s website: ProgressTexas.org Ed Espinoza at ProgressTexas.org: Flipping Texas in 2020 Y’all. What’s happening in Texas right now did not happen overnight. And it started well before 2018. I wrote an analysis of voter growth entitled “Flipping Texas 2020” and I’ll offer a summary here 1/https://t.co/VeB2zWC18O — Ed Espinoza […]

The show notes for Episode 31 are at http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/05/episode-31-without-progressive-resistance-were-bringing-a-squirt-gun-to-a-gunfight-wsg-lonnie-scott-of-progress-now.html .@SpeakerRyan tells @GStephanopoulos: "Under this bill, no matter what, you cannot be denied coverage if you have a pre-existing condition." pic.twitter.com/m7vXnDpuYR — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 7, 2017 Maggie Fox at NBC News: What Are Pre-Existing Conditions and What Would the GOP Bill Do? Sam Berger and Emily Gee at the […]

A web of money, power, and deception Earlier this year, I wrote about Lee Fang’s important piece in The Nation magazine titled “The Right Leans In”. In that piece, Fang detailed the pervasive influence of the corporatist network called the State Policy Network (SPN) in shaping public policy in states throughout the country. Funded heavily by corporate interests and wealthy […]