A far-right Republican is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission on an anti-DEI and Islamophobic platform. But the culture war-heavy campaign masks an intra-GOP battle over establishing basic environmental protections in Texas oil drilling.

Trump may not have been part of a Klan contingent that brawled with the police in 1927, but the violent moment shows the roots of political tensions that linger today.

‘He can build the ballroom this way, he can build his triumphal arch this way, he can fund the Iran war this way.'