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Green Party of Texas hopes to create viable alternativenew

David Collins walked to the front of the Hill Country cabin with a green toga draped over shirt, tie and slacks, a throwback, he said, to mankind's first republic: the Roman Senate.
San Antonio Current  |  Michael Barajas  |  06-19-2012  |  Politics

George Rodriguez lays out his go-local approach for the Tea Partynew

The mostly elderly, mostly white Tea Partiers inside the Northside sports bar sit with eyes trained on the wall of TV screens as a conference call organized by right-wing lobbying group the American Action Network is spinning rebuttals by an assortment of GOP all-stars and conservative thought-leaders to President Obama's "liberal tax-and-spend agenda" over the bar's loud speakers.
San Antonio Current  |  Michael Barajas  |  02-01-2012  |  Politics

San Antonio Group Pushes to End Corporate Personhoodnew

Saturday marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision that wrenched open the spigot on corporate cash, drowning us in breathless campaign-season attack ads.
San Antonio Current  |  Michael Barajas  |  01-27-2012  |  Politics

Dispatches From the Front Lines of Rick Perry’s Political Revivalnew

Before a throng of 30,000 faithful, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered a message that was anything but apolitical. Amid the calls to defend marriage from homosexuals and end abortion, an even more fundamental refrain kept repeating: a call for the “faithful” to drive the nation and her leaders “back to God.”
San Antonio Current  |  Michael Barajas  |  08-10-2011  |  Politics

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