The lone star of Texas tells All In with Chris she “would be lying” if she said she didn’t have gubernatorial ambitions. 
 
 Tuesday, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis set out to conduct a 13-hour filibuster to stop Senate Bill 5, a restrictive abortion bill, from passing. Her performance made her an overnight political sensation: over 100,000 people tuned in to watch the filibuster and thousands tweeted along with the hashtag #StandWithWendy. She joined All In with Chris Hayes to reflect on her experience. 
 
 Strict filibuster rules barred Davis from meal or bathroom breaks; she had to stand the entire time without even leaning on anything for support. And she had to stay on topic. “It really wasn’t just a physical endurance but a mental one as well” she admitted to Chris Hayes on Wednesday night. But Davis was energized by the prospect of stopping the closure of 37 of the 42 state’s abortion clinics and blocking a ban on abortions past 20 weeks. 
 
 
 
 When asked whether or not she felt disrespected by her male colleagues Davis replied: “You know I did. I wish I could tell you that’s atypical here…We were talking about a group of primarily men who were coming together to make decisions about women’s healthcare and literally intruding upon private decision-making by women.” Davis started the filibuster at 11:18 am and and was slated to go until 12:00 am but was interrupted by Republicans claiming her comments on ultrasounds strayed from the topic at hand. Of Governor Perry and Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, Davis told Chris, “They have overridden and made a mockery of all of the rules we run by in this state…What we saw yesterday was injury to that insult where Senate rules became meaningless.” 
 
 Closing in on midnight, Davis’ supporters and colleagues saved the day, raising points of order in their turn. Their cheers pulled her over the finish line and the bill did not come to a vote in time. ”Ultimately in that last 15 minutes of the evening, it became the People’s Filibuster. And they were loud and they were heard. And that is what democracy is about. And I was really proud of the way they conducted themselves,” a delighted Davis proclaimed. 
 
 Governor Perry said Wednesday that he would call another special session and try again to pass the abortion ban (as well as some transportation funding legislation). Davis issued a statement saying, “If they intend to keep pushing their extreme personal political agenda ahead of the interests of Texas families, I will not back off of my duty to fight.” 
 
 Now that she has a national profile, is the next step a run for the Texas governor’s house? “You know I would be lying if I told you I hadn’t had aspirations,” she said. 
 
 In other words, the #StandWithWendy campaign has only gotten started. ||||| Politics 
 
 The summer’s Democratic hero, Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis — whose 13-hour filibuster against a Texas abortion-restricting bill catapulted her into the national spotlight — is set to be featured in the September issue of Vogue. 
 
 The gushy profile, published online Thursday, details Davis’ personal story from a single teen mom to political star. 
 
 “Looking back, I don’t know if I could do it again. But somehow you just have the energy to do what you have to do,�? she told Vogue of being a single mom and attending community college classes in the morning while she worked as a paralegal. “And the great thing was, after a year, I realized that college wasn’t only for other people.�? 
 
 Davis’ hair struggles (she admitted to having “super-supercurly hair�?), clothing (“She loves to put on something nice, dresses by Chloé and Victoria Beckham, and Miu Miu heels or Louboutins�?), home life (she lives in a “Spanish-style town house�?) and speculation about a potential run for Texas governor are also prominently featured. 
 
 In the profile, Davis revealed that she was not always interested in politics, finding such conversations boring when out with her second husband Jeff Davis, a lawyer and the youngest person to be elected to the Fort Worth city council. 
 
 “I remember we’d go into restaurants and everyone wanted to talk politics, and I thought, God, this is soooo boring,�? she said. 
 
 From bored with politics to Harvard law, law career to city council seat, and State Senate to household name, the profile delves into her potential run for governor. 
 
 “I feel confident that the next campaign will sort itself out in due time,�? Davis wrote Vogue in an email after Republican Gov. Rick Perry announced he would not seek reelection. “For now my priorities remain the same—focusing on the work at hand and fighting to make Texas a great place for all families.�? 
 
 The word “abortion�? — the practice she fought to protect after 20-weeks of pregnancy in her multi-hour filibuster — does not appear a single time in the nearly 3,000 word essay. The word “antiabortion�? appears three times. 
 
 Since the Perry announcement, Davis has remained coy about her future plans. At the National Press Club last week, Davis said Texas needed a change, but would not reveal if she will run. 
 
 “I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: Either my state Senate seat or the governor,�? she said at the Press Club. 
 
 This week, a lawyer and lobbyist Robert Miller published a report claiming that “credible sources�? have told him Davis will run for governor in 2014. 
 
 Davis posed in the Texas Capitol for her Vogue spread, titled “Stand and Deliver: After Her 12-Hour Filibuster, How Far Will Texas Senator Wendy Davis Run.�? 
 
 Follow Caroline on Twitter ||||| Hundreds of pages of email and text message correspondence made public last week shed new light on the infighting and organizational disarray that have plagued America’s leading conservative Christian political consulting firm in recent months. 
 
 As BuzzFeed reported in June, the Columbus-based Strategy Group for Media — which has represented dozens of tea party and religious right Republicans, including Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich — has been mired in lawsuits and internal tumult since last spring, when seven of the firm’s managers staged a religious intervention with their CEO, Rex Elsass. After the managers made their demands in a dramatic meeting that culminated with them laying hands on their boss and praying for his soul, Elsass fired three of his top lieutenants, including his longtime protégé and Strategy Group President Nick Everhart. 
 
 The series of emails and text messages, made public on the Franklin County Court website in the ongoing lawsuit between Everhart and Strategy Group, adds further detail to that meeting, and shows the extent to which the company’s managers were worried about Elsass’ psychological and spiritual health. They also reveal potentially embarrassing anecdotes for the company, including one incident in which an executive said Elsass accidentally mailed a “female pleasure machine” to Rep. Michele Bachmann. 
 
 A transcript of text messages sent among the managers prior to their April 1 intervention with Elsass suggest they were nervous about confronting him, and even concerned for their physical safety. 
 
 “At least you have baby bird wings that can fly away if Rex goes nuts,” one of them texted to the others a few days before the intervention. “It might be like game of thrones. All our heads on spikes and then a celebration!” 
 
 “I just personally don’t think it’s safe to be in that empty building with him waiting for us,” said another. “Call me crazy…” 
 
 A third manager attempted to ease the others’ concerns: “Men, don’t be anxiety filled pray about it, but the group confrontation is biblical & what must be done. We know where he’ll be we meet him there in love & the reaction is in his hands.” 
 
 The text messages show that the managers planned to begin their intervention with a prayer, “to set the tone in a loving way” because they “had to do all possible to convey genuine love.” Everhart said they needed to let him know they were “there to help him.” 
 
 But the managers also outlined a list of personal and professional demands for Elsass, including their insistence that he seek psychiatric help, change churches, give up his hiring and firing power, and forfeit the ability to make unilateral financial decisions for the company. Below is a draft of the document the managers would present to Elsass the day after their intervention: 
 
 Personal Action Items 1. Dr. Weiss — Renew weekly sessions, should at least be under consideration if Dr. Weiss is the correct long term fit. Question whether he is the right fit considering he was on a medicine regiment that was working, but because it didn’t allow him to cry enough he simply took himself off of it. That’s not the sort of strong Doctor he needs in his life. This person can not be pushed around by simply doing what he wants. 2. Find a Christian Counselor — While Dr. Bada could be considered, would like for Matt and Mitch to work with Rex to find the correct Christian counselor to begin visiting weekly. 3. Updated/New Psychological Evaluation — Needs to be an updated evaluation on his condition, whether Dr. Weiss or a treatment center (What does Cleveland Clinic offer?), we need to ensure we have correct diagnosis and thus the correct medicinal treatment schedule is in place. 4. New Home Church — Needs to find and begin attending a new home church, if that home is Northwest Bible Church…great…if not needs to be a joint decision by he and Laurie. 5. Holding him to Family Time Accountability — Being home, finding time to be with family, this has to become a major part of his renewal, again his wife is going to have to be instrumental in letting us know if he’s keeping his promise. Business Action Items 1. Rex is removed from the EastGatePAC (Or whatever the final name of this entity becomes) project as well as all public affairs client day to day execution. 2. This remains a confidential internal SG matter, discussion is limited to those individuals in the room today. 3. Weekly accountability and prayer time with the people in room today and Rex on Monday’s at 8:00AM 4. Legacy Business Timeline — If this is really a legacy business, what is the hard timeline transition plan, doesn’t really make sense for an “interim CEO” (I.E Rob Phillips). It was always clear when it was simply the Strategy Group for Media, but with the broader Strategy Group Companies…what’s the bigger vision/plan for transferring that legacy business on? Has never been laid out, this isn’t an overnight action item but there is no reason for us not to chart a path of the next 5 months to a year. Also, separately, based upon all the internal SG company changes a new organizational chart seems in order. 5. Counseling on Big Decisions — No unilateral decision making on personnel hires/fires or major financial decisions. Needs to be a set process of discussion with senior management. 
 
 Rick Tyler, the recently installed president of Strategy Group, told BuzzFeed the emails “demonstrate a measure of delusion that remains unfathomable to me. The idea that employees could present to the owner of a company a list of demands with which they would take ownership of the company is a delusion that I can’t reconcile with reality.” 
 
 Everhart’s lawyer, James Mowery, has said Everhart had no desire to stage a coup within the company, and that he only wanted to help his longtime mentor and keep the business on track. 
 
 The documents contain other correspondence that illustrate the discord within the company. 
 
 In February, for example, Elsass wrote to several employees reiterating his request for a daily update memo from his managers, insisting that the process would not be used as “a tool of judgment” but rather as a way to “focus, coordinate, and know what was in your mind and heart.” He added, “Papa wants to know that his boys and girl will share their heart and mind with him for a literal moment each day from EVERYONE of you.” 
 
 But a month later, Elsass had apparently grown suspicious that some of his employees were talking about him behind his back, and sent an email putting his request for daily updates in stronger terms: “This is what is essential for me….and to disregard this simple request is disrespect which I will not tolerate!” He added, “If you think I am not worth this five minutes daily just come nock [sic] on my door and let me know and we will deal with it. If you have a problem don’t talk to one another, your staffs, or anyone else.” 
 
 And an email thread from May 29 — after the three managers were fired — featured Strategy Group’s former voter-contact consultant P.J. Wenzel making reference to Elsass sending “female pleasure machines” to Bachmann. The emails don’t elaborate on the incident, but one person familiar with the story told BuzzFeed that Elsass had intended to give Bachmann a vibrating head massager to help alleviate her migraines, and that the employee he sent to buy the gift accidentally purchased something that more closely resembled a sex toy — and sent it to her office. 
 
 Tyler said the item in question was purchased at Brookstone and was not a sex toy, but he declined to provide further information about the product. (Brookstone announced in 2011 that it had begun selling “pleasure objects.”) 
 
 The person familiar with the story said the firm successfully retrieved the gift before Bachmann could open it. 
 
 The emails also show Everhart, Wenzel, and Matt Parker — another top executive fired by Elsass in what they refer to as the “Saturday Night Massacre” — discussing future plans and making arrangements to call former and current Strategy Group clients. 
 
 Elsass had made them sign non-compete agreements shortly before he fired them (though Everhart had signed a scaled-down version of the contract years earlier). The three men compared their contracts to determine whether they had any legal standing, and they agreed each individual agreement — Everhart’s was actually labeled a “covenant” — was too different to be enforceable. They continued to work to maintain the relationships they had built at Strategy Group until July 9, when a preliminary injunction was issued to stop them. 
 
 A month after his termination, Parker wrote to Everhart and Wenzel, “We are no longer working for an evil, narcissistic and perhaps mentally ill man. We are free in Christ and I don’t know about you guys, but God has dealt with me in some major ways… I love both of you guys and I know God is going to work all of this for good. Not because I see some great resolution coming, but because His word says so.” 
 
 Meanwhile, Wenzel has filed his own suit against Strategy Group in an effort to work for his father’s political consulting firm, Wenzel Strategies. He’s also claiming that Elsass is holding personal items of his hostage in the office, including a computer and a harpoon. Strategy Group has countersued, arguing that Wenzel’s work with his father would violate his non-compete agreement. The Strategy Group also claims the firm has already returned the harpoon to Wenzel. ||||| Within 90 minutes of the end of the GOP debate, Michele Bachmann's camp emailed on the HPV vaccine dust-up with Rick Perry, highlighting her status as a mom as she questioned his conservative credentials. 
 
 It's also the first time I can remember Bachmann going after a Republican rival in one of her fundraising pitches. And while she didn't quite deliver a Perry contrast that her team had curtain-raised - one that focused on Social Security - she certainly hit him hard, and has signaled a new stage of the race. 
 
 The email is below. (h/t Hohmann and Ball). 
 
 Dear Fellow Conservative, 
 
 I'm offended. 
 
 If you watched tonight's Republican debate, you saw Rick Perry defend his decision to mandate a vaccine for young girls through an executive order while he was governor of Texas. As a mother, I have raised three biological daughters and 23 foster daughters, and I believe taking away a parents right to direct the health care of their children is flat out wrong . It’s a violation of liberty and everything you and I stand for. 
 
 Tonight, I also questioned why Governor Perry made this executive order. When you look at the facts, the question becomes, is this about life or is this about millions and potentially billions for the drug company? 
 
 We cannot forget that in the midst of the executive order, a big drug company made millions of dollars because of this mandate. This drug company's PAC made thousands of dollars in political donations to Governor Perry, and his own former Chief of Staff was working as the lobbyist for this drug company when he issued the mandate. This is flat out wrong. 
 
 Governor Perry says if given the option again he would not issue the mandate. However, as President of the United States there are no mulligans; there are no do-overs. 
 
 I am also concerned that Governor Perry also supports giving subsidies to illegal immigrants. The American way is not to give taxpayer-subsidized benefits to people who have broken the law and are here illegally. That is not the American way. 
 
 I believe it is going to take a strong constitutional conservative to defeat Barack Obama. Our constitutional conservative values must guide our actions for solving America’s challenges. And if these values are not represented in the White House, we are in for four more years of the same policies that have led our country in the wrong direction. 
 
 Our nation's challenges are have reached a critical point. And we cannot risk electing a Republican nominee to face Barack Obama who doesn't get it right the first time. The stakes are too high. The current polling of Republican voters show we are endanger of sending a candidate who does not adhere to our shared values to face Barack Obama in the general election. There are a number of candidates who say they are “members of the Tea Party,” but their records of policy and action do not reflect Tea Party values. 
 
 As conservatives, it is our charge to make Barack Obama a one-term President. I know that I am the only candidate in this race who can not only defeat Barack Obama, but who will adhere to constitutional conservative values as President. 
 
 I need to know you stand with me today, and ask that you make a special emergency donation of $25, $50, $100 or more. 
 
 We need to defeat Barack Obama, and you can help me do this by joining my campaign right now with a generous contribution. My opponents are raising money hand-over-fist from donors with deep pockets. My campaign relies on the generosity of you- everyday men and women- to fund my campaign with small donations. 
 
 Your support is needed now more than ever if we are going to win this fight. Thank you for your generosity and God bless you and your family. 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 
 
 Michele Bachmann 
 
 P.S. If we don’t join together and take action, we risk allowing a candidate who does not represent our values to go up against Barack Obama in the general election. Please take action today by following this link to make a generous contribution of any amount to help our campaign take on our opponents. Thank you. ||||| Texas on Tuesday night stole the national spotlight as a state senator led nearly 13 hours of filibuster in protest of a controversial abortion measure — and succeeded in killing the bill. Here’s what you need to know about the Austin showdown: 
 
 1. Who led the charge? State. Sen Wendy Davis, a Democrat from Fort Worth, spoke for close to 13 hours on Tuesday as she voiced her opposition to the abortion legislation during the end of a special session of the state legislature. 
 
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 ‘’What I think it accomplished is what I hoped it would and that was to inspire people to understand that there are voices here on the senate floor that represent them,” she told reporters. “And I felt empowered by their presence, by their support, by the letters …. They made a difference and they are what makes Texans so amazing. And I am proud to be a Texan tonight.” 
 
 (PHOTOS: Longest filibusters in history) 
 
 Davis, raised by a single mother, was by age 19 a single mom herself after being married and divorced. She earned her family’s first bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University before attending Harvard Law School. First elected to the state senate in 2008, she has had a briefer experience with filibustering before: in 2011, she took to the floor over public education cuts. 
 
 2. What was the legislative fight about? At issue was Senate Bill 5, which according to the Texas Tribune “would have banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, required physicians to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of an abortion facility, required abortions — even drug-induced ones — to be performed in ambulatory surgical centers and required doctors to administer drugs that induce abortion in person.” 
 
 “Thanks to the powerful voices of thousands of Texans, #SB5 is dead,” Davis tweeted early Wednesday morning. “An incredible victory for Texas women and those who love them.” 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Texas filibuster nets national attention) 
 
 At 3:01 a.m., Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said that the bill had passed after the special session had expired, and therefore couldn’t be signed into law. 
 
 “An unruly mob, using Occupy Wall Street tactics, disrupted the Senate from protecting unborn babies,” he told reporters, according to the Austin American-Statesman. 
 
 3. What’s next for Davis? She received a massive outpouring of support from national figures via social media, sparking some to ponder her next steps. Tweets linked Davis to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (“Hillary Clinton/Wendy Davis 2016” read one popular tweet) and she got nods of support on Twitter from leading Democratic accounts including those belonging to President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Texas abortion bill falls) 
 
 A column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram asked, “Is Wendy Davis ready for a bigger stage?” and explored the possibility of a gubernatorial run in 2014. 
 
 “She doesn’t play games or worry about what’s going to get her votes,” Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa told the progressive outlet the Raw Story. “She does what she believes is right. We’ve been sorely lacking that kind of leadership in the state of Texas for more than 20 years. So, yeah. I’m hoping she runs for statewide office, and I know that should she decide to, all of these women and men that are here today, young and old, will work their hearts out for her. She’d probably get elected governor, or whatever other office she wants to run for.”
– Wendy Davis took her 10 hours of filibustering fame and extended it by at least 15 minutes, appearing on three Sunday shows today and unloading on Texas Republicans trying to push through a 20-week abortion ban. “Gov. Perry and Lt. Gov. Dewhurst are willing to … put women in harm’s way in order to step up on the political ladder,” she said, adding that Republicans "mismanaged the clock terribly last time, and ran roughshod over a lot of our senate rules and traditions to try to ram this bill through. And they’ll probably be a bit smarter. But what they now have to confront is that the eyes of Texas, the eyes of the country are watching.” As for Rick Perry's musings on her beginnings, she responded thusly: "My life story is something that belongs to me. I had choices and chances and opportunities. What I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that." Elsewhere on the Sunday dial, as per Politico: Nancy Pelosi on Edward Snowden: “We have to know what is it that he has. And I don't know that he has that much substance. He may know something about the machinery. I don't know that he knows that much about the content. But now that he's threatening to share information with Russia and China, if he in fact he has any information, I think that should disabuse anybody of the notion that he is a hero.” And furthermore: “I think it's pretty good that he's stuck in the Moscow airport. That's OK with me. He can stay there, that's fine.” Former NSA chief Michael Hayden on NSA leak: It has caused "significant" damage, and “in an ideal world, I’d keep all of this secret because any of it I make public slices some of my operational advantage away from me. But democracies like ours don’t get to do something over a long period of time without national consensus." Conservative leader Ralph Reed says Prop 8 supporters aren't bigots: Joe Biden and Pat Leahy were among Dems who "voted for this law and Bill Clinton, who signed it into law, (so were they) intolerant and motivated by an animus toward gays? Obama was 14 months ago. Was he a bigot 14 months ago?"