Tag Archives: Steve Hotze

The Texas Tribune reports: From his booth in the exhibit hall of the Texas GOP’s 2024 convention, Steve Hotze [photo] saw an army of God assembled before him. For four decades, Hotze, an indicted election fraud conspiracy theorist, has helmed hardline anti-abortion movements and virulently homophobic campaigns against LGTBQ+ rights, comparing gay people to Nazis and helping popularize the “groomer” …

Axios reports: A federal court ruling that struck down required coverage of HIV prevention medication may have far more sweeping implications for whether insurers will have to continue offering a range of no-cost preventive health services. This is not just about PrEP. It’s much broader,” Katie Keith, a health law expert at Georgetown University told Axios. “If we l0se the …

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: A former Houston Police Department Captain was arrested and charged for running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove claims of a massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County. Mark Anthony Aguirre [photo], 63, was arrested by Houston police Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault …

NPR reports: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has denied a bid by Texas Republicans to block Election Day drive-through voting in Harris County. In a terse order, the three-judge panel wrote: “It is ordered that appellants’ motion for injunctive relief to issue a preliminary injunction banning drive-thru voting on Election Day, November 3, 2020, is denied.” No explanation was …

NPR reports: U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen today threw out a suit challenging the legality of some 127,000 votes cast at drive-through voting sites in the Houston area. He ruled the plaintiffs don’t have legal standing to sue. Harris County, Texas’ most populous county, and majority-Democratic, erected ten tents to expedite the early voting process, as a way of …

The Texas Tribune reports: For the nearly 127,000 people who did so at drive-thru polling places instead of in traditional indoor sites, many are now watching with fear as a wealthy conservative activist, a Republican state representative and two GOP candidates aim to throw out their ballots at the last minute. In the state’s most populous — and largely Democratic …