Texas

Friday morning on NBC’s free streaming platform NBC News NOW, NBC Capitol Hill correspondent and MSNBC’s Way Too Early host Ali Vitali offered a fawning but mournful puff piece on a Texas family with a 15-year-old transgender child — born a boy but posing as a woman — that’s grown so fearful of their child’s existence and safety they’re leaving the United States for an undisclosed country.

While their evening counterparts were nowhere to be seen on Monday night, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today followed through early Tuesday in celebrating Texas Democrats returning to the Lone Star State, painting them as conquering heroes for (temporarily) halting the GOP-proposed congressional maps and trumpeting their latest demand for attention.

New York Times columnist David Brooks may have officially lost it. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Brooks reached back over 100 years into the time machine to pull out an analogy that says what President Trump and Texas are doing on redistricting is the equivalent of the German use of mustard gas in World War I.

The standard in what passes for elite legacy media doing their jobs is so eroded that we’ve almost allowed ourselves to cheer when they do something as rudimentary as ask a Democrat politician a question that might seem just a teensy bit uncomfortable. But, as we can learn from the latest episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, merely asking a question is not enough.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering.

Once again, leftist billionaire George Soros’s political machine has reared itself to wreak havoc. This time, it's stoking the flames of ongoing political turmoil taking place in Texas over the issue of redistricting.

In 2021, the media were instantly lovestruck when Texas Democrats fled the state in order block an election integrity bill from passing. Today, many of those same Democrats are hunkered down in Chicago, in a vain attempt to prevent their state from being redistricted, and once again, the corporate media have rushed to their defense.

A redistricting arms race? Texas Republicans' plan to redraw the congressional map and eliminate five Democratic-held U.S. House seats, which would help the GOP retain control of the House in next year's midterm elections, sent Democrats in the Texas legislature fleeing to Illinois and New York to avoid a sufficient “quorum” in the chamber to vote on the measure. The spat led off Monday…

NBC’s Seth Meyers was in a good mood for a change during Wednesday’s Late Night. While Meyers accused Texas Republicans of trying “to rig the 2026 midterms” by redrawing the state’s congressional districts, he praised blue states for threatening to do the same, not realizing many are already more gerrymandered than Texas.

What the Texas redistricting fight has exposed is that there’s a huge (D)ifference in how liberals in the media react to partisan gerrymandering. The panel liberals on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip had a very hard time defending Texas Democrats’ flight to gerrymandered blue states.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s invitation to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to appear on Tuesday’s The Late Show preceded the fleeing of Texas Democrats to that state in the wake of the state legislature’s redistricting efforts, but the developments were impossible for Colbert to ignore. Even Colbert, however, recognized the irony of complaining about gerrymandering to the governor of Illinois,…

On Monday, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning news shows to gush over the “Texas-sized fight” and “standoff” state Democrats pitched by cowardly flocking to Illinois in opposition to a Republican-led redrawing of the Lone Star State’s 38 House seats. Framing it as standing up for “democracy,” CBS and NBC ignored the left’s penchant for gerrymandering and all three saw no problem…

On Friday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur devoted a segment to promoting the latest viral Democrat, Texas state legislator James Talarico, touting his history of arguing against the "far right," and letting him blame Fox News for political divisions in America.

The playbook for the PBS/NPR lobby in the defunding fight has been to send liberal journalists to talk with station managers in small communities in red states, as if that somehow represents the Eastern leftist elites that make the programming on "public" broadcasting. Politico's "West Wing Playbook" column talked to Don Dunlap, a station manager in Corpus Christi, Texas. He said people…