Divisive crosscurrents in Crockett-Talarico Senate showdown threaten Democratic unity ... and more news

While Crockett and Talarico aren’t hurling insults at each other, their supporters, especially online, have been bickering over the candidates’ perceived failings with some of the exchanges tinged with racial overtones, even if unintentional. In other news, after more than a decade atop Texas agriculture policy, longtime commissioner Sid Miller is facing a rare, fully loaded Republican revolt; a 51-year-old woman died Friday when she was stabbed in the neck by her son following a domestic altercation in Fort Worth; and some people dare to imagine something bigger and find ways to get a substantial breather from stress or their day-to-day routines, taking mini-sabbaticals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices