The New Secret Engine of Texas Politics:

The article discusses the evolving landscape of political outreach in Texas, where campaigns are increasingly shifting from traditional methods to innovative recruitment strategies via platforms like Craigslist. This approach targets “gig seekers” with paid participation, transforming casual voters into paid recruiters. The model emphasizes relational organizing and efficiency, raising concerns about the commercialization of personal networks for political engagement.

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A Morning Text Message and the Quiet Evolution of Politics

This morning, standard phone-buzz routine: a text message hit my screen with a link attached. Glancing at the preview link, my immediate knee-jerk reaction was to write it off as

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Looking at a Weather Map and seeing The Geometry of a Lifetime

Looking at the radar map on my screen this afternoon, watching the familiar colorful bands of a summer thunderstorm drift across the upper Texas coast, it brought back to me

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Sunday was a very long day…

I relearned a lesson yesterday. One I learned a long time ago but had forgotten in the almost two decades I have been retired. The lesson is organization… Specifically computer

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Friday Afternoon On The Gulf Coast…

I haven’t posted anything in a little bit. I have been killing a good chunk of time creating music videos and uploading them to Youtube and Facebook though. It’s been

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Coastal Muses: A Blueprinted Morning in Alvin

There is a familiar architecture to these early hours on the Texas Gulf Coast, one that begins with a standing appointment with the horizon. I’ve taken my usual position in

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