AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democrat who filibustered an abortion law for nearly 13 hours wearing pink running shoes, began the slow rollout of her campaign for Texas governor on ...

Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis announced her candidacy to become the Governor of Texas Thursday, on the same stage where she received her high school diploma. Davis was greeted by a crowd of ...

She is now simply Wendy. As the leader of a last-minute fight against a rigid antiabortion bill, the filibustering, pink-sneaker-shod, Harvard Law School–trained, hardscrabble Texas-raised state ...

Legendary Texas Longhorn football coach Darrell Royal famously said you should "dance with who brung ya." Democrat Wendy Davis appears to be taking that advice as she builds her campaign for Texas ...

Wendy Davis v. Greg Abbott. Let me take the suspense out of this race: Abbott will win in convincing fashion. As I’ve noted before, there are simply not enough women and minority voters in Texas who ...

It took just 13 hours for Texas State Senator Wendy Davis to get national name recognition for filibustering that Texas abortion bill. And now she’s using that fame to try to change the national ...

In the battle to replace outgoing Texas governor Rick Perry, totals show state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) has outraised her GOP opponent Attorney General Greg Abbott during the last six months of ...

Wendy Davis lost her bid for Texas governor as soon as the polls closed Tuesday night (actually before that, but this made it official), and one of the most interesting pieces of information from the ...

Today, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will attempt to spend 13 hours filibustering a generally senseless state law that would, effectively, ban abortion within the state of Texas. As of this writing, ...

Last night, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” launched its first episode in a series of Austin-based installments which have been sardonically dubbed “Democalypse 2014: South by South Mess.” The ...

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