Allegra Hobbs
Senior Editor at Texas Monthly
Senior editor at @TexasMonthly. Former managing editor @bigbendsentinel. @DNAinfoNY forever. Reach me at [email protected].
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Allegra Hobbs
Where do lawmakers, lobbyists, and legislative staff hang out when they manage to escape the Capitol grounds? We asked around (and kept our eyes peeled). Here are a handful of spots where you might catch some of the session’s movers and shakers eating and drinking. In a final act of public service after announcing his retirement from lawmaking, Representative Dan Huberty opened this coffee shop in 2023.
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2 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Allegra Hobbs |Christopher Hooks |Forrest Wilder |Robert Downen
A GOP chief of staff damned Representative Brian Harrison with the faintest possible praise when he told us that the Midlothian Republican would be “good for Congress.” There’s a certain type of lawmaker—like Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and Republican Congressman Jake Ellzey—who turns a short, unproductive Texas House stint into a ticket to D.C. In the state legislature, being useless is cause for embarrassment. In Congress, it can be the foundation of a lengthy career.
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2 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Robert Downen |Allegra Hobbs |Christopher Hooks |Forrest Wilder
Our practice of naming the Ten Best and Ten Worst legislators every session is a tradition that connects us to our founding year, 1973, and to reporter and Capitol fixture Paul Burka, who kept the franchise going for nearly four decades and who died in 2022. As we set out to make the lists in recent years, however, it became common to hear legislative insiders describe each successive session as the worst they’d worked.
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1 month ago |
texasmonthly.com | Allegra Hobbs
At the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds, thousands of ralliers formed a circle around two men who are known mostly for losing elections. Beto O’Rourke, the former congressman from El Paso, has since 2018 been beaten in a Senate and gubernatorial race and dropped out of a presidential primary two-plus months before voters even cast ballots.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
texasmonthly.com | Allegra Hobbs
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris came to Texas last week, eleven days before the presidential election, with the same goal: to mine personal narratives of women here that could drive their closing arguments home. Our state does not serve as a natural ending location for a campaign. It is not a battleground—Harris has virtually no chance of winning here—but the national stage of CNN and Fox News means it can still serve as a potent plot device.
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