Thank you to my 100 subscribers!

I started the year despondent. Even coming off of two years of working for successful political campaigns, I don’t sense that more work is coming in. Social media is incredibly broken, and I am not even allowed to create the same kind of magic that I once could. I don’t blame anyone for cutting social media from their budget. It’s unreliable.

That said, yes I WILL WORK FOR YOU ha ha.

That’s why I started this project to track what’s happening in the Texas legislature this session, and why I am finding energy in working on it. I get to be some of myself again, which I really need right now. I hope it feeds my future work. But I also deeply care about what happens. I care about how the people who represent us in Houston act, how they represent the people they should be most responsive to. And if they’re not, we need to make them feel our power.

YOU still hold the power when it comes to your local representation. Maybe you can’t get a meeting with Ted Cruz, but you can make sure that Mayes Middleton hears from you and your neighbors in whatever creative way you can devise. We can probably find ways to communicate with Briscoe Cain, bless him. Let’s figure it out together.

This is all to say that on Monday I will turn on the payments and I guess that makes all pledges real, so if you don’t really want to pay for my work, that’s fine! Just cancel your pledge! I don’t mind! But the little bit of funds I collect will go toward newspaper and magazine subscriptions that I need to read to keep up with this madness and maybe upgrade the stuff on and around my work desk.

I truly appreciate those who have already put their faith in me. Thank you. You have no idea.

I’m going to be launching a weekly podcast to go along with the feed, for those who find audio more palatable. Might be one or two people. I produced a very early podcast for the Houston Chronicle in 2007 until I was laid off in 2010, and I’m an avid enjoyer of podcasts, so I hope I’ll be able to produce one that is enjoyable.

Until then, please enjoy a song I was reminded of today that I love a lot.

You will learn to try again
When you get your second wind

How long is the road paved with good intentions
Forever waiting divine intervention
Of love and it's way and you will not fight it
While everyone dozes, you're coming up roses

Have a good weekend after our most historic week. Turn it all off. Lay around in the sun tomorrow. Eat a giant sandwich.