We name just a few of the many people from Texas working for companies related to the crude oil industry who have given money to help Sean Bielat try to get a seat in Congress. It’s a rather odd pattern, considering that Bielat isn’t running for Congress in Texas. He’s running in Massachusetts, where there are no giant oil fields.

A scandal has recently hit the New York Police Department, members of which have been convicted of planting drugs on innocent people and then arresting them for possession. This practice, called “flaking,” leads to impressive arrest statistics for a police department. The side effect: massive miscarriages of justice. The practice of false accusation is not [...]

Lobbyist Henry Ryan isn’t one of Farenthold’s constituents. He lives in Washington D.C., not Texas. So why is Ryan giving money to Blake Farenthold?

Blake Farenthold said that global warming was just a scare tactic, but now he’s begging Washington D.C. for help with record-breaking fire and drought in Texas that was caused by global warming.

Which states will gain seats in the U.S. House in 2013? Which states will lose seats because of the 2010 Census? Find out here.

Blake Farenthold is the latest Republican to be officially placed in the win column in the 2010 congressional elections. Today, Solomon Ortiz officially conceded his loss to Farenthold in an extremely close contest. Those looking to understand the policy implications of Farenthold’s addition to the U.S. House of Representatives can focus first on energy. Farenthold [...]

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has issued a statement concerning the increasingly contentious issue of whether to ban mosques in America. Her statement draws a distinction between feelings of emotional pain and standards of religious freedom: First and foremost, I understand the pain, trauma, and grief suffered by the men, women and children who [...]

If residents of the 2nd district are looking for a representative who will be more active and responsive to offshore drilling problems, it seems that they’re going to have to wait for another couple of years

With a campaign slogan of “Send Kesha to Congress, and your grandchildren to Mars.”, Kesha Rogers won the 22nd district Democratic congressional primary in Texas, with a platform of opposing the White House’s “British imperial controllers”.

Why did John Cornyn celebrate a document that calls the military an eternal enemy of civil liberty? Why did Cornyn praise the document, which refers to priests as “ever ready minions of power”? Is Cornyn some kind of Communist?