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Trump, Biden to visit Texas in competing border trips Thursday
President Joe Biden will meet with law enforcement in Brownsville on Thursday while former President Donald Trump travels to Eagle Pass.
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Paxton’s push to oust incumbents puts spotlight on Court of Criminal Appeals primaries
The attorney general has tried to supplant eight Republican judges on the court after they rejected his efforts to unilaterally prosecute voter fraud. The judges are now pushing back.
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The Internet can’t stop mocking Ted Cruz’s tight pants and moose knuckle
Texas’ junior senator apparently dressed to impress on a recent trip to Mar-a-Lago.
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Texas abortion laws front and center in Biden’s White House bid
Two Texas women who were forced to leave the state to terminate non-viable pregnancies will be part of the Biden campaign’s reelection campaign.
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New Jan. 6 video shows U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls in tense Capitol standoff
Despite once condemning the violent attack, Nehls has since downplayed the insurrection and defended many of the rioters who have been prosecuted.
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Assclown Alert: Tamping down on free speech to score political points with Texas AG Ken Paxton
Paxton announced his office is investigating watchdog group Media Matters for ‘potentially fraudulent activity’ after it reported on white supremacist content on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Gov. Greg Abbott endorses Donald Trump during border trip
Abbott made the presidential endorsement after he and Trump served meals to service members deployed for Operation Lone Star, Abbott’s sprawling border security mission.
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Biden quietly gave border wall contract to company used by Trump, Abbott
‘Clearly DHS, under the Biden administration, has no more respect for border residents than it did under the Trump administration.’
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Former San Antonio-area congressman Will Hurd ends presidential campaign
Hurd, who called Donald Trump a threat to democracy, failed to qualify for both GOP primary debates.
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Biden administration presses forward with border wall plans in Texas, angering allies
Even as the president says the barriers don’t work, his administration says it will waive environmental laws to build them quickly.
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Assclown Alert: Bashing the Godless Democrats with Christian nationalist David Barton
Barton, who once said Christians are obligated to vote for Trump, recently said Democrats aren’t ‘God-fearing’ and are more prone to cheat in elections.
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Will Hurd of Texas fails to qualify for first GOP presidential debate
Anemic poll numbers barred him from the debate stage, but Hurd also fell short of another requirement by declining to pledge his support for the eventual Republican nominee: ‘I will not sign a blood oath to Donald Trump.’
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San Antonio tech bro-turned-Trump insider Brad Parscale has moved back to Texas
The former web designer is reportedly in Midland, running a company that promises to shield conservative figures from ‘cancel culture.’
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Former Republican South Texas congressman Will Hurd joins the presidential race
Hurd also said that, if elected, he wouldn’t pardon Trump should the former president be convicted of the federal charges he faces for allegedly taking classified documents.
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‘Colossal Waste of Money’: Texas nears $1 billion in border wall contracts
The Webb County coalition that opposed Trump’s boondoggle is now scrambling to oppose the state’s expanded construction plans.
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Bill to ban Chinese citizens and government from buying Texas land gains steam among Republicans
Sen. Lois Kolkhorst filed a bill that would ban citizens, governments and entities from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from purchasing land in the state, part of what she and other Republicans have said will help stem foreign influence in Texas.
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Bad Takes: Donald Trump isn’t the only threat U.S. democracy is facing from within
Lucky for us, Trump is not only an attempted rapist of democracy, he’s also a moron.
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Bad Takes: In a ‘Tale of Two Documents,’ the one about Texas women should draw real outrage
The noise about ‘Hunter Biden’s laptop’ is obscuring a report from the Texas government on a real world tragedy: the hundreds of mothers in this state who have died during or after childbirth over the past decade.
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Federal court ruling may prevent Texas teens from getting birth control without parental permission
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a former religious liberty lawyer, found that a federal program that gives teens access to birth control denies a parent ‘a fundamental right to control and direct the upbringing of his minor children.’
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U.S. House Jan. 6 committee investigated four Texas conservative figures, transcripts reveal
The figures, who include leaders of right-wing groups and political allies of the Trump White House, largely pleaded the Fifth Amendment to questions about the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
