‘This Beats the Pants Off Our Favorite Houston Barbecue’
The Texans are here, and they’ve come bearing briskets. On a recent sunny, cool October Friday, you could smell them a ways off, farther down Greenpoint’s McGuinness Boulevard than you might expec...
“MAGA Needs To Be Dead”: Dade Phelan on the Republican Wipeout
Former Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan saw it coming—at least in part. Three weeks ago, when he and I sat down for an extended interview about the upcoming election, he told me the mood among Republ...
Photos: James Talarico Parties Like It’s 1994
Even early in the night at Talarico’s watch party, the mood was elated—there was an understanding that something big was happening. “I feel phenomenal,” Jose Farrera, a 33-year-old Austinite w...
At Ken Paxton’s Watch Party: Lots of Thoughts, Lots of Prayers
Ken Paxton’s election-night party felt over before it even began.Before the first returns of the night came in, a few hundred supporters mingled in a banquet room of the Westin, a four-star hotel in...