Austin's Lamar Smith Town Hall Feb 25
Austin, get involved! Come on out to Lamar Smith’s town hall meeting next Saturday Feb 25.The Austin constituents of Texas's 21st Congressional District have formally invited our represntative, Lamar...
View ArticleTricked by a Rose on the Page: Smith Takes Up Tabloid Conspiracy Crusade
Over the past two weeks, David Rose has tried his hardest to keep the air in his “blowfish” attack on Tom Karl’s pausebuster study, with two follow-up stories on the 11th and the 18th. But ever since...
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The Wanted Posters - On Tuesday, House Republicans Will Betray US
On Sunday Dartagnan wrote a piece www.dailykos.com/…titled “On Tuesday, House Republicans Will Betray Their Oaths, Their Country And The American People”. I just wanted to add my two cents. Here are...
View ArticleRepublican Anti-Science Bills Target School Children in 4 More States
Republican state lawmakers in four more states, many of them adherents of a theological worldview with no basis in science, are advancing legislation allowing educators to teach “alternative...
View ArticleAGs Push Back on Lamar Smith’s Exxon Defense; GOP Pushes Back on EPA Destruction
New developments in Lamar Smith’s Exxon defense plan might give him reason to pause and reconsider. First, a group of 15 Democratic state attorneys general wrote him a letter making it clear that he...
View ArticleThere’s More than One Way To Gut The EPA
While The Donald continues to grab headlines for his continued assault on the environment and public health, there are other shenanigans afoot that deserve attention. For more on that, we turn to Ed...
View ArticleAnswer from Lamar Smith on Trumpcare
Hello All,I have the misfortune of having Lamar Smith as my Congressman. I went through Daily Kos here and sent him a letter about not voting for Trumpcare. I was polite and told him that we would be...
View ArticleMy Letter To Lamar Smith
Dear Mr. Smith: I have never been so embarrassed to be your constituent as I was today. Your bullying of Michael Mann, and your denial of the fact that the Heartland Institute denies climate change,...
View ArticleLamar Smith Must Go!
This is a big shout out to a local Indivisible group that is active and making a difference. TX21 is Lamar Smith’s district and this group has been causing him grief. They have done more activism than...
View ArticleLamar Smith Presents: Climate Science Cirque du So-Lame
No one thought that Lamar “my career has been funded by fossil fuels” Smith was going to put on an unbiased hearing on climate science. After all, the minority Democrats on Smith’s House Committee on...
View ArticleLamar Smith and Big Tobacco Present: Shill Advisory Boards and DisHONEST...
Wednesday was a busy one for everyone’s favorite fossil fuel-funded science inquisitor. Not only did Lamar Smith make an embarrassment of himself and the Science Committee by literally attacking...
View ArticleTexas judge deals ExxonMobil a blow in their climate change fraud case
ExxonMobil took a loss last week when the judge handling the New York and Massachusetts attorneys general case denied the oil giant’s attempts to get the case moved to Texas. The judge decided on...
View ArticleGorsuch's Stolen Confirmation; 'Unlawful' Syria Attack; Major Civil Rights...
Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern...On today's BradCast, the world and the U.S. Congress respond to Trump's bombing of Syria earlier this morning, even as Republicans in the Senate complete their...
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#TX21: Another sign of why @GOP is running scared ... (w/serious...
Yesterday, Kansans voted in an unexpectedly close race to replace now Trump CIA director Mike Pompeo in KS-04, which 'is' a R+30 district. While a win is a win, a 7% victory in what should have been a...
View Article250 Million Reasons to Reject HONEST Act, 200,000 to Reject Mar-a-Largo
The (dis)HONEST Act, Lamar Smith’s latest attempt to hobble environmental regulations, is already living up to this name. As it turns out, it the bill would likely cost around $250 million to...
View ArticleScientists on House Science Hearing Myths: What’re They Smoking?
The old saying goes that a lie can travel around the world in the time it takes the truth to tie its shoes. With that in mind, it makes sense that the corrections to various denier claims from the...
View ArticleNYOAG Schneiderman No, Rep Smith, We Will Not Comply
from Sierra Club Santa Lucian newspaper This is presented in only pdf format from Sierra Club. I felt it should be presented as a full article on the SierraClub website or another site, so i am posting...
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I'm running for Congress against U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (TX21)
My wife and I struggled for a long time to have a child. We did everything short of IVF, and spent a lot of money on fertility treatments. Several miscarriages later, we dried our tears, threw up our...
View ArticleThe Scientific Integrity of Lamar Smith, Scott Pruitt, and the WSJ
News that the #ExxonKnew suit is rolling along in court got us to wondering what Exxon’s stalwart congressional defender has been up to lately. So let’s check in on House Science chair Lamar Smith. To...
View ArticleCounter Trump on Climate: Burn the Deniers in the Midterm
I tried to listen to President Trump’s full announcement that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, but after a few minutes I had to turn off the TV. I couldn’t listen...
View ArticleLamar Smith Reaches a New Low, Blaming Media for Gunman’s Attack on Lawmakers
Lamar Smith has reached a new low in toxic political posturing today:The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee is blaming the “liberal media” for the level of public anger...
View ArticleRepublicans have all kinds of old tweets slamming what they're doing right...
The Republicans may have a tiny Senate cabal working in secret, but the men who are making large, unprecedented decisions that’d have long-reaching effects on our citizens have very public histories of...
View ArticleTurning Texas Blue - Starting with District 21
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.” -...
View ArticleScientist felt 'bullied' when EPA chief of staff told her to mangle her...
As noted here and here, the Trump regime is intent on wrecking the Environmental Protection Agency. And it is clear from the comments of the head of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors that the...
View ArticleTaking on Economic Royalists - It’s Time to Bust Monopolies
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”Supreme Court Justice Louis BrandeisI want to tell you a story: in rural North Carolina there...
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Straight Out of the Nazi Playbook: Lamar Smith’s Latest Attack on Immigrants
The contrast in this race could not be clearer: I spent Monday rallying with community leaders outside the federal courthouse in San Antonio against the racist “show me your papers” law, S.B. 4. U.S....
View ArticleDemocratic candidate for Congress arrested while protesting health repeal
Health care bills don’t kill people. The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA, the Senate version of the GOP’s Affordable Care Act repeal) isn’t a health care bill. It’s a tax cut for very rich people,...
View ArticleInvest in America’s Future: Make Higher Education Free
“The best way to enslave people is to keep them from education.”- Eleanor Roosevelt There could never be so much truth packed into such a tight space as Eleanor Roosevelt’s 12-word quote. If one does...
View ArticleLamar Smith goes to Greenland to see 'non-existent' climate change with his...
The headline says it all, friends. Representative Lamar Smith of Texas — the anti-science, climate-change-denying head of the House Science Committee — went on a secret trip to Greenland to see the...
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GOP House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith touts "the positive effects...
Today’s Republican Party embraces the proposition that Ignorance is Strength with enthusiasm. Earlier this month a revealing USA Today poll showed that “60% of Republican and conservative-leaning...
View ArticleLamar Smith Claims Global Warming is Good Because Plants Need CO2
It’s never a dull week with both Trump and Lamar Smith of TX-21 in Washington, D.C. This week ol’ Lamar tells us:“Don’t Believe the Hysteria Over Carbon Dioxide.”Lamar Smith reveals his agenda in the...
View ArticleCorporate Power in Politics on Display as Science Committee Chair Extols...
Climate change poses huge dangers to the people of Texas’s 21st Congressional District. Rising temperatures will worsen wildfires, flash floods, and rural water woes — to say nothing of the incredible...
View ArticleLow-bar Lamar
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the good people of Texas are coming together to help one another. Lamar Smith, however, apparently didn’t get the memo. Instead of extending a helping hand, his op-ed...
View ArticleDemocracy for America endorses Derrick Crowe for Congress in TX-21
Today, Democracy for America (DFA) announced its endorsement of my run for U.S. Congress in Texas’ 21st congressional district.Democracy for America has 79,226 members in Texas and more than one...
View ArticleInjustice in the St. Louis Justice Systems
There is another police shooting in St. Louis and once again we are asking the wrong questions. Were Michael Brown's hands up? Did Michael Brown just rob a store? Was Lamar Smith a heroin dealer?...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Powerful Texas GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling heads for the exits
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Another senior Texas congressman bails, and Democrats may...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleState AG Quits Defense of GA Sec. of State in Election 'Server Wipe' Case:...
Guest: Marilyn Marks, Republican election integrity advocate of Coalition for Good Governance and Georgia election lawsuit plaintiff...The fallout -- and disturbing mysteries -- following a lawsuit...
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What Lamar Smith's Retirement Means
Note: Derrick Crowe is a long-time DailyKos community member running for Congress in the 21st District of Texas. The district’s Republican incumbent, Lamar Smith, announced this week that he would not...
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Reckless Roger
We’re in the midst of a constitutional crisis -- this week’s events illuminated a clear connection between the 2016 election robbery and the ensuing tax cuts for the wealthiest few.On Monday, Robert...
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Campaign Update: Winning Big in Bexar and Block-Walking TX-21
Derrick Crowe is a longtime DailyKos community member running for Congress in Texas' 21st Congressional District. Crowe is a former Democratic congressional staffer, small business owner, and climate...
View ArticleDespite Watching It Happen, Lamar Smith Still in Denial of Climate Change
Back in July when Buzzfeed’s Zahra Hirji reported that Lamar Smith went on a trip to the Arctic, some folks optimistically hoped this would portend a change in his steadfast anti-climate position....
View ArticleUpdates on Attacking Science, Astroturfing on Pipelines, and Staffing the Swamp
One of our goals with this roundup is to alert you to upcoming denier threats before they hit the mainstream. Occasionally, great reporting can further illuminate issues we noticed some time ago. With...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks resigns after asking staffers...
LEADING OFF●AZ-08: The strangest political story in a very strange year just got even stranger. Just a day after GOP Rep. Trent Franks announced he'd resign because he'd asked two female staffers to...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Lamar Smith- 2017 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" posted profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 21st Congressional District, Lamar Smith, a 15 term...
View ArticleHouse Science Committee wants to investigate scientist for reporting science...
Ever since the House Science Committee was taken over by the likes of Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, it has been using its powers to harass scientists, protect the oil and gas industry from climate change...
View ArticleLamar Smith in Fox and Oren Cass in WSJ: Not RickRolling, but Still Trolling
It’s already a weird month for climate op-eds. While powerful pieces like Alison Spodek Keimowitz’s reckoning with leukemia and climate change or 16-year-old climate activist Jamie Margolin’s story can...
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Why Do Voters in TX 21 Congressional District Like Mary Wilson?
More voters in Texas’ District 21 chose Mary Wilson who has always actively served people than any of the slicker, better financed candidates for Congress. How shocking! The majority of the votes in...
View ArticleMorning Digest: California Democrat Gavin Newsom acts to ensure he'll face...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleIn The Belly of The Beast
In 1972, Linda Jenness, the then Presidential Nominee of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP, a Trotskyite faction too insignificant to be a real political party per se) came to speak at Trinity...
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