I appreciate @natecohn.bsky.social & Eve Washington's NYT piece pointing out that random simulations of nonpartisan districting tend to produce many minority opportunity districts, perhaps as many as we have now. But although the subhead comes close, the authors do not ever quite say the key point—

I like this because it's taking a more-holistic view of what the Supreme Court is actually trying to accomplish. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

Just wanted to point out that Angela Paxton's name also appears as a donor here--TTP is a hate group, if you were unaware. Looks like Angela got Tim Dunn in the divorce!

I will say, seeing astroturf campaigns on BSKY suggests that the platform is viewed by the groups that run these operations as a legitimate source of political discussion that influences and moves voters.

I know that there's a lot of controversy over whether or not it's worthwhile to attempt to flip Texas, which I assume will pop up again because of Rehmet's win in SD9. If you're from out of state, I wanted to point out that Rehmet's win (and any Dem win) blunts the power of billionaire Tim Dunn.

Super happy with the results from SD9! Lots of people are noting that the GOP candidate was...sub-optimal, and that's exactly what's been happening in Collin County as well. If you let people like Tim Dunn run the show, you're never going to have good candidates, or good policy. Keep fighting!

I'm finally going to post, because I've seen some really naive takes on voter suppression in Texas and how it can't possibly have any kind of meaningful impact on voting. (You might wonder why Republicans bother!) Anyway, this is what a successful Dem get-out-the-vote effort looks like in Texas:

Most recent: A trashy romance series!

My grandfather's letters from World War II--he was a surgeon:

I've also written the YA book The Weirld:

Cautiously putting another toe in here: I write books! My best known is the sci-fi series Trang: