James C. Moore - Texas Outlaw Writers

How I Voted

A few weeks after Ma had the procedure, whatever it might have been, the local newspaper ran a story about an abortion doctor in Saginaw who had been arrested for running a clinic out of a motel. Pictures were of dark filthy rooms with trash and rumpled blankets and tossed bloody towels.

Texas Politics

What's the Matter with Texas?

“The rest of this country’s lost its goddamned mind,” I heard one of them say. “They say he is gonna win again.” "I’d sure as hell let him know we don’t like the idea of no damn n****r in our White House. Don’t matter how much time he spent at Harvard, he’s still a n****r and it ain’t right.”

Election

A Turbulent and Troubled Land

"We refuse to own our history, to learn from it, and cannot know who we truly are as a people or what binds us as a nation, because we have been hiding from ourselves for too long."

Election

Donny is Done

The most confounding element of this election is the ability of the MAGAts to listen to Trump speak and still consider giving him their vote. His speeches are filled with his strange non-sequiturs and speech pathologies that would have him sent to a rest home by most families.

Music

The Pilgrim/Chapter 34

"I've always thought “Bobby McGee” was suffused with immortality. The story defined America - 2 lovers wandering the roads trying to discover their country and each other. I wanted that life, writing and drifting, and Kristofferson became the thematic soundtrack of my dreams, and then my actions."

War

The Last Battle of Rudy Gonzalez

“My grandparents and aunt never accepted Uncle Rudy’s death,” Rudy’s nephew Jerry Gonzalez said. “They hoped, prayed, and believed that one day he was going to come home, walk through their front door. Every day they woke with fresh faith. Every day for decades.

Trump

Little Johnny's Sex Change

"Out of all the senile rantings the Republican presidential candidate spouts off, the 'trans surgery at schools' trope clearly establishes his disconnect from reality and the psychotic break he has undergone."

Election'

A Culture of Cowardice

I thought about a conversation I had with him on an airplane once because of the recent speculation that George W. Bush might endorse Kamala Harris. Sure, there is a non-zero chance of that happening, but I suggest you place your bets elsewhere.

Guns

Cemetery America

"We avert our eyes from the cause and nod sadly at the effect, but take no steps to prescribe a solution. The culture of the gun in the U.S. has lost no battles in the modern era. Our politics keep fertilizing the bloody fields with fewer and fewer controls."

Trump

A Garden of Stone

Arlington National Cemetery was supposed to be their last place of sanctuary. Surely, no politician would ever dare think to produce a campaign commercial. Who walks among those gardens of stone and contemplates themselves? Had America ever produced such a politician?

Trump

Lying All Along the Line

"Trump often looked constipated or maybe he was grimacing at the memories of how he had been diminished to a punch line by speakers in Chicago. He was cuddling up next to his favorite issue, snuggled there with his lies about how he had built 400 miles of wall on the border."

Religion

Boxing with God

"Tonight at 7:00 p.m., Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick will join Matt Crouch, Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Dr. Phil for a thought-provoking discussion: whether President Trump’s survival of the recent assassination attempt was a mere stroke of luck or divine intervention."

Trump

American Dreaming

"We are tired of his anger and name calling and lying about subjects as mundane as crowd-size comparisons between his speeches and those of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Further, how does he think he can win by calling Kamala Harris a “fucking bitch” while rolling around on a golf cart?"

trave;

On the Loose

"I never stopped returning to the Grand Canyon and never will. There is no medication to cure political and emotional ills coursing through your country and your brain but one hike into the canyon can temporarily render them into near irrelevance."

Election

The Tortilla Curtain

No matter how often Greg Abbott and Trump lie about her being a failed “border czar,” Harris’ responsibility was to mitigate the root causes of migration, which, unsurprisingly, she accomplished.

Election

Hillbilly Hypocrite

"Vance also does not care about the Constitution, which he would be sworn to uphold should Trump and he win. Vance said he would not have certified the 2020 results were he the VP. He would happily defy the constitutional laws he was sworn to uphold."

personal stories

A Summertime Dream

"It's hard not to feel hopeful on days like this and it is just as difficult to avoid thinking about how little America has changed since that Dallas gunfire took us off course. We have had our victories, but they feel now as if they are dissolving in the old anger and we are back where we started."

Biden

A Speech for the American President

I realize this might sound awkward, but the electoral processes in many nations tend to be far shorter and less costly than the ones by which Americans choose their leaders. This can be done, and a new national discourse will arise that will show voters the strength of the Democratic Party...

War

July 1, 1916

“Boys were falling on either side until there were only two of us left. He got it. He was killed. Then I got it. I got two bullets in me. I dropped. Blood was coming out of me...I stopped the blood as best I could...I said my prayers and I seen my mom, as far as I knew, but I knew she wasn’t there.”

Trump

The Old Man with a Spray Tan

The notion that anyone can accept the idea that the former president is the last, best hope to save American democracy is repulsive in the extreme. The opposite, in fact, is true.

After D-Day

The most disturbing memory I had was the day he was angry at my mother and he broke a broom handle in two and stabbed her in the arm. I saw the wooden shaft plunge into her forearm, I tried to stop Daddy - later I woke up on the kitchen floor. What makes a man do such a thing?

Trump

An Innocent Man?

Republicans are so concerned about Trump’s political ego and their proximity to his putative power that they are willing to toss the rule of law into a ditch flowing with their lickspittle, and further Trump’s destruction of U.S. democratic institutions.

War

When Johnny Came Home

The odds of Johnny Mata encountering harm or great danger were considered minimal. But Nancili Mata knew her husband, and it made her worry while her family expressed confidence.

Texas Politics

Darlin' of the Devil

Label it evil: the drowning of immigrants, the dismantling of public education, children that go without healthcare, pardoning murderers, and making sure the next school shooter can buy a gun unimpeded. It's the work of a Devil.

Humor

The Laughing Legend

"I sure wasn’t reassured by the flight attendant pointing out emergency exits in the event of a crash. Folks, I’ve seen airplane crashes; there are hundreds of exits.”

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