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This page is maintained by Skye Kilaen, an Austinite who has previously worked in direct human services, legislative advocacy, and state government in Texas.
As of January 2012, all of these blogs have been actively posting within the last four months. If you have any corrections, feedback, or TO ADD YOUR BLOG, fill out the contact form. Thanks!
What follows is a collection of blogs in Texas that often discuss Democratic, liberal, and progressive politics.
- Progressive Blogs Sorted (Vaguely) by Location
- Progressive Organization Blogs
- Candidate and Elected Official Blogs (currently none listed)
- Where Are The Women in Texas Progressive Political Blogging? (all the blogs from the list that have at least one female author)
- Newspaper and Other Publication Blogs
- Other Reasonable Folk and Informational Blogs
Blogs By Location
Amarillo
Austin
- And Doctor Biobrain's Response Is...
- Darth Politico
- Grits For Breakfast
- I Blame the Patriarchy
- Keep Austin Wonky
- Letters from Texas
- McBlogger
- Mean Rachel
- Only In It For The Gold
- Pandagon
- Prairie Weather
- Texas Tea Pad
- The Rag Blog
- Urbanism South
- Weblogsky
Authors From All Over
Cleburne
College Station
DFW Metro
- Dallas Progress
- Dallas South
- Dungeon Diary
- First Door on the Left
- Hugo Zoom
- I Tell U What
- Janet Morrison's Community Dialogues
- Larry James' Urban Daily
- Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
- Pete's Place
- SocraticGadfly
- The Collin County Observer
- Three Wise Men
- Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot - over.
- jobsanger
El Paso
Georgetown
Glen Rose
Houston Metro
- America for Purchase
- Bay Area Houston
- Brains and Eggs
- ConFrijoles
- Daily Commentary By Marc Campos
- Dos Centavos
- GregsOpinion.com
- Half Empty
- Isiah Carey's Insite
- Off The Kuff
- Our New Anhuac
- Texas Liberal
- The Daily Hurricane
- Yellow Doggerel Democrat
Hutto
Laredo
Location Unknown
- All Power to the Positive!
- BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com
- Beginning to Wonder
- BlueBloggin
- Eddie G. Griffin (BASG)
- Latina Lista
- Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues
- Margaret and Helen
- NewsHog
- Prairie Fire Journal
- Relaxed Politics
- THOLOS OF ATHENA
- Texas Civil Rights Review
- Texas Prison Bid'ness
- The Texas Cloverleaf
- The WAWG Blog
- TruthHugger
- Zippidy Doo Da
Pasadena
Richmond
Rio Grande Valley
San Antonio
South Texas
Wise County
Progressive Organization Blogs
- Dream Act - Texas
- No Border Wall
- Southwest Workers' Union
- Texas Death Penalty Blog
- Texas Freedom Network Insider
- Texas League of Conservation Voters Blog
- Texas Moratorium Network
- Texas Vox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas
- The StandDown Texas Project
- Waco Friends of Peace
Candidate and Elected Official Blogs
Where Are The Women in Texas Progressive Political Blogging?
This list includes blogs by women and group blogs with some female authors.
- Asian American Action Fund
- Beginning to Wonder
- Bluedaze
- Dog Canyon
- I Blame the Patriarchy
- In The Pink
- Janet Morrison's Community Dialogues
- jobsanger
- Juanita Jean's: The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon
- Latina Lista
- Margaret and Helen
- MB Lockhart's Blog
- Mean Rachel
- MOMocrats
- Oil Patch Democrats
- Pandagon
- Panhandle Truth Squad
- Pulp Friction
- Relaxed Politics
- South Texas Chisme
- Texas Tea Pad
- The Daily Hurricane
- The Texas Observer: La Linea
Newspaper and Other Publication Blogs
May or may not be progressive. You decide.
- ABC13: Prof13
- Austin American Statesman: Austin Legal
- Austin American Statesman: Postcards Texas Politics and Government Blog
- Austin-American Statesman: First Reading
- D Magazine: Front Burner
- Dallas Morning News: Trail Blazers
- Dallas News City Hall Blog
- Ft. Worth Star Telegram: Politex
- Houston Chronicle: Houston Politics
- Houston Chronicle: Kuff's World
- Houston Chronicle: Texas on the Potomac
- Houston Chronicle: Texas Politics
- Texas Monthly: Burkablog
- The Texas Observer: Forrest for the Trees
- The Texas Observer: La Linea
Other Reasonable Folk and Informational Blogs
These blogs may be strictly informational, lean rightward, or have some other characteristic that doesn't quite fit our main group. But we like 'em.
