Probably the most interesting moment of the debate came much later when they were asked about the other side of the 2016 ticket. Both candidates strongly supported Bernie Sanders in a Democratic primary race that has been called into question by Sanders supporters and some party officials. The issue remained contentious among Democrats nationally right up until the general election. (Ed. note: The issue remains contentious; legally so.)

Fisher said he pivoted, vocally supported Clinton and proudly voted for her. Fagan said she cast a write-in ballot for Sanders. She referred to the DNC as a threat to democracy.

“You guys could boo me, I would want to boo myself,” she said. “But I was part of that group that said, ‘I’m done. I’m done with politics. I don’t trust any of these people. These people don’t care about me. They don’t care about my voice. My voice is being superceded by superdelegates, it doesn’t matter anyway.'”
—In These Times observes the pathetic reality of Houston being rebuilt post-Harvey on a foundation of immigrant labor...and theft of their wages

Texas and other Southern states are home to small-town doctor shortages, skyrocketing rates of preventable disease among rural residents and some of the highest uninsured rates in the nation, according to a new report that places Texas’ rural health care failings in a national context for the first time.

The “report card,” published last month by researchers at Texas Tech University’s F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health, examines each state’s rural health care in terms of mortality, quality of life and access to care. Texas was slapped with a grade of “D-” and ranked 36th out of 47 states (New Jersey, Delaware and Rhode Island were not included in the analysis for lack of rural counties). Among other factors, Texas was dinged for high rates of death from heart disease and stroke in rural areas

...and I'd like to point out to our viewers here, because it almost never gets any airtime: Paul Manafort was working for the Yanukovych government before it was overthrown illegally in February 2014. Yanukovych was trying to get into a European association agreement, something the Russians didn't particularly like, okay?

So you have this—you know, they always say—"pro-Russian" president. Well, no he wasn't pro-Russian, he was defending his oligarchic clan behind him. Because his clan—mostly in the east and the Donbass, that is under siege right now by the Kyiv government—these oligarchs, they wanted to clean their money, and they said to Yanukovych, "You run our clan, now make a deal with the Europeans cuz we want to clean our money." That is the origins of what Paul Manafort was doing in Ukraine, okay: selling a deal so the oligarchs could clean their filthy money from the eastern part of Ukraine.

So next time you hear someone say, "Yanukovych, the pro-Russian president," it's garbage! It has no basis in truth in it whatsoever. And I know Ukrainian politics pretty damn well.