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Sky York Journal The Associated Press has called the Republican primary runoff race for the open Texas Railroad Commissioner position for extremist candidate Bo French, who defeated the incumbent by less than 15,000 votes. The incumbent has not yet conceded. French will face Democratic state Rep. Jon Rosenthal — whom French has labeled a “radical Democrat” — and Libertarian candidate Arthur DiBianca in November. The runoff primary race pitted French against Jim Wright, the incumbent chairman and a longtime figure in Texas’ oil and gas sector. With 95% of the vote in on Wednesday morning, French defeated Wright with 50.6%…

Sky York Journal Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday in a Republican runoff election for the Texas Senate seat. The Associated Press called the race for Paxton around 9:00 p.m. ET, after Paxton secured 62.6 percent of the vote compared to Cornyn’s 37.4 percent.  Paxton received a last-minute endorsement from President Donald Trump, making him the favorite in the race after months of polling that put him neck-and-neck with Cornyn. In a March primary, Cornyn got 42 percent of the vote to Paxton’s 40, which sent the race to a runoff. It’s been…

Sky York Journal FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A swanky stockyards-themed venue in this Texas city hosted a far-right politician whose candidacy for a top state oil regulator position asks a simple question: is racist posturing enough to win an election?  Far-right figures in attendance helped set the scene. Kyle Rittenhouse, Ken Paxton, Brandon Herrera, and an influencer called “MAGA Barbie” all milled around at Bo French’s launch party in early April for his runoff campaign for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission. It’s a powerful role that oversees the Texas oil and gas industry.  French will face off against Republican…

Sky York Journal Antifascists were fighting with their far-right rivals. An anti-immigrant group with surging membership took to the streets and clashed with the police. And a member of the Trump family was at the center of it all.  The year was 1927.  On Memorial Day, 99 years ago, the celebrations in New York City turned violent. The chaotic scenes, which involved the Ku Klux Klan rioting in Queens and black-clad Fascists who stormed Times Square after shots were fired by their antifascist rivals in the Bronx received renewed attention during President Donald Trump’s two White House bids. And the…

Sky York Journal A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that he was the victim of vindictive prosecution by the Trump Justice Department. The indictment of Abrego Garcia was a reprisal for him having prevailed in his civil case against the government for wrongfully deporting him to El Salvador, U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. ruled: The objective evidence here shows that, absent Abrego’s successful lawsuit challenging his removal to El Salvador, the Government would not have brought this prosecution. The Executive Branch closed its investigation on the November 2022 traffic…

Sky York Journal Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed his family home and set it on fire, murdering his father, Vernon. He still remembers the shootout; he remembers watching his father die from smoke inhalation. The trauma lingers to this day, 60 years later.  Vernon Dahmer had been a fixture in the African American community near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He ran a successful local grocery, and, after the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, obtained the right to register voters and collect poll taxes, which were still in effect, at his store. Members of…

Sky York Journal Choking on the blistering injustice of the Callais decision, even normie Democrats are starting to make noise about drastically remaking the Supreme Court.  Both former Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) have come out in support of court expansion in recent weeks, the reform that has come to shorthand a willingness to fundamentally change the institution. That two 2028 presidential hopefuls have come onside suggests a calculation that changing the Court will be a litmus test for the future nominee.  Even a Republican, retiring Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), made overtures to House Judiciary Ranking…

Sky York Journal Last month, the DOJ left officials across the state of Michigan in a state of bewilderment.  Civil Division chief Harmeet Dhillon demanded the clerk of Wayne County, where Detroit is located, provide records from the 2024 election, saying the DOJ intended to investigate supposed fraud from that election in the state.  The reason for the letter didn’t surprise local and state officials. This is Trump II, after all: the FBI has executed search warrants at the Fulton County, Georgia elections hub and has obtained the results of a crackpot Arizona audit into the 2020 election results in…

Sky York Journal The winner of Georgia’s GOP Senate primary will be decided in a June 16 runoff after no single candidate received a majority of votes cast in Tuesday’s primary. MAGA election denier Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) will face off against football coach Derek Dooley, who has repeatedly stopped short of saying the 2020 election was stolen and privately admitted Trump lost that election in audio leaked earlier this year. Tuesdays results are only a half-win for the dominant, hardline sect of the GOP, as their other self-professed MAGA warrior Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter came in third place. Republicans…

Sky York Journal Minnesota state prosecutors charged a second ICE agent on Monday with assault over incidents that took place during the Trump administration’s winter occupation of the city. Prosecutors brought four counts of second degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime against Christian Castro, who allegedly shot a man of Venezuelan origin. The man, who had legal status to be in the United States, told law enforcement that he had helped a housemate escape an ICE officer and was inside his home at the time that Castro allegedly shot him. The charges set up what’s likely…