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Trump awards contract to resume border wall construction in Texas
The feds will spend $70 million-plus to construct 7 miles of fence.
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Bad Takes: The Trump GOP’s vilification of government workers is an old and familiar game
So much for the notion Trump is a champion of working people. Especially if they happen to be civil servants.
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Trump tariffs will kill 410,000 jobs in Texas, longtime state economist warns
Mexico accounted for $157.6 billion in Texas business last year, and the state also does substantial trading with Canada and China.
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Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes
Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.
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Abbott’s border splurge
Operation Lone Star has unleashed a windfall for private contractors cashing in on a four-year-long emergency shopping spree.
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Rep. Al Green disrupts Trump speech and is escorted out
The Texas Democrat who has a history of attention-getting acts repeatedly shouted ‘no mandate to cut Medicaid.’
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Another protest against Trump and Musk planned outside San Antonio City Hall on Tuesday
The rally comes as the White House has cut $45 million in funding to San Antonio nonprofits and other entities.
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Bad Takes: Trump’s and Abbott’s targeting of DEI is ripping MLK’s dream to shreds
The right-wing clickbait machine’s stoking of outrage over DEI has real and damaging consequences.
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Bad Takes: Whether from right or left, militant protest deserves mercy, not mass incarceration
It’s unlikely conservatives will scrape either the ‘Trump 2024’ or the ‘Back the Blue’ stickers off their cars following the president’s pardon.
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After teasing border security rollback, Texas plunges in deeper
Texas’ border spending exploded after Joe Biden’s election, then state leaders signaled a new willingness to reduce it when Trump won. That didn’t last long.
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Assclown Alert: Puckering up to the Great Orange Leader with U.S. Sen. John Cornyn
Cornyn has dragged himself to new lows of bootlicking subservience to Trump.
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San Antonio shuttering Migrant Resource Center amid Trump’s immigration crackdown
Over the past seven days, the daily average of migrants arriving at the center has been 12, city officials said.
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‘A lot of fear going on’: Texas immigrant community on edge during Trump’s first weeks
Across the state, immigrants and their loved ones are changing their daily habits as the Trump administration orders at least 1,200 daily arrests of undocumented people.
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Trump, others dismantling legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., San Antonio MLK speaker warns
Rev. Dr. Kenneth R. Kemp will deliver Trinity University’s annual MLK Lecture this Thursday.
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Texas’ top GOP officials won’t comment on Trump’s pardon of Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted police
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton had no comment on the pardon, which included dozens charged with hurting police.
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Did Elon Musk give a Nazi salute at Monday’s inauguration?
Users on BlueSky, Instagram and X are calling it a “sieg heil.”
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A Trump DOJ could bring an end to the yearslong investigation of his ally Ken Paxton
Donald Trump and the Texas attorney general have forged a friendship over the years, one that has been cemented in their shared political and legal struggles and their willingness to come to each other’s aid at times of upheaval.
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Again emulating Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott proposes calling Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of Texas’
Abbott’s comments come a day after Trump said he wants to rename the body of water the ‘Gulf of America.’
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Bad Takes: Let’s stop with the myth that working class voters handed Trump the election
Those ‘most enthralled with Donald Trump were not at the very bottom,’ but rather ‘the elite of the left-behind.’
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The Trump picks who could decide our climate future
It’s not just the EPA. From Elon Musk and RFK Jr. to Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, Trump’s choices to lead key agencies are poised to set a very different climate agenda.
