Allegra Hobbs

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.

Jul 14, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Allegra Hobbs

The Lord works in mysterious ways—mysterious, at least, to those who are not certain of their own hopeful interpretations of world events as divine providence. Most of us are doomed to stumble blindly through the morass of modern life, stringing our feeble human narratives together for some measure of comfort. But in the world of politics, it pays to know the mind of God. On Saturday, at a rally in Pennsylvania, a gunman on a rooftop shot at former president Donald Trump, grazing his right ear.

Jul 10, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Ben Rowen |Sandi Villarreal |Allegra Hobbs |Dan Solomon |Michael Hardy |Russell Gold

So many cities; so many rivalries. Houstonians seem to view Dallas with contempt, while Dallasites claim not to think about Houston at all. Most San Antonians could happily live the rest of their lives without hearing anything else about Austin. West Texans would like folks along the Interstate 35 corridor to remember that they exist.

Jul 1, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Allegra Hobbs

The middle-aged man, seated near the front of the room for a training on when he could use deadly force, expressed displeasure upon being told that doing so often was not legally advisable. He had driven to a suburban Fort Worth church to attend a seminar hosted by the True Texas Project, a prominent right-wing group. He asked what he could do if he returned to his home to find a squatter there—a “common problem” around the state, as he put it.

Mar 5, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Ben Rowen |Christopher Hooks |Forrest Wilder |Alex Samuels |Michael Hardy |Sasha von Oldershausen | +2 more

Howdy!Ben Rowen, 10:00 A.m. Welcome to the Texas Monthly primary live blog! Election Day is finally upon us, after a seemingly interminable campaign season. Electioneering started more than nine months ago, after the Texas House impeached Ken Paxton and rejected Greg Abbott’s school voucher program for the first time. Those two seismic events widened deep rifts in the GOP and inspired a spate of primary challengers. In the interim, our politics has gone full Mad Libs.