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Nine out of 10 Texans say housing costs too much, poll finds
Some Texas lawmakers have signaled an appetite to tackle the state’s housing affordability crisis when they convene next year.
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Texas schools got billions in federal pandemic relief. It is coming to an end as the school year starts.
Educators say they’ll struggle to keep the programs they created with those funds, highlighting their precarious situation without more state help.
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Biden says Texas governor, lieutenant governor were slow to request aid after Beryl
Gov. Greg Abbott was overseas when the storm hit, and the White House said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was unreachable until Tuesday afternoon.
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Assclown Alert: Making empty threats about the Ten Commandments with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
‘Texas WOULD have been and SHOULD have been the first state in the nation to put the 10 Commandments back in our schools,’ Patrick tweeted last week.
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Assclown Alert: Sphincter snorkeling at Trump’s hush money trial with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Patrick and two MAGA-minded members of Texas’ congressional delegation showed up at the New York trial to bestow praise on Trump.
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Texas GOP convention kicks off with party leaders attacking Speaker Dade Phelan
Phelan’s foe Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick urged Republicans to stop giving Democrats a say in the speaker election.
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Assclown Alert: Railing against God haters and refugees with Dan Patrick
Patrick told a church gathering that the 2024 election is a battle between Bible-believing Christians and those who ‘hate God.’
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Assclown of the Year: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is an utter embarrassment to Texas
Patrick tried to pretend he was an impartial overseer of Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial, but it should clear it was rigged from day one.
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Ken Paxton’s impeachment cost Texas taxpayers more than $4 million
The bulk of the costs came from bills from Rusty Hardin’s law firm, according to records released this week.
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Texas Republican Party votes against ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers
The vote comes two months after a top conservative activist and former Texas House member was caught hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes for an hours-long meeting.
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Nick Fuentes is just the latest white supremacist embraced by Defend Texas Liberty
While Fuentes’ unapologetic hate mongering has made him one of the nation’s best-known white supremacists, he was merely the latest in a long line of people who have been embraced by Defend Texas Liberty and its close allies.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick won’t return $3 million he got from group linked to white supremacist
Patrick said the leader of Defend Texas Liberty made a ‘blunder’ for holding an hours-long meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
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Paxton critics pile on, calling impeachment trial rigged
House Speaker Dade Phelan wrote an op-ed for his hometown newspaper saying the ‘fix was in from the start,’ while other Republican officials are calling for Phelan’s resignation.
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New Anti-Defamation League study brands Texas as hotbed for hate groups
ADL documented two extremist murders in the Lone Star State and six terrorist plots during 2021 and 2022. It also highlighted antisemitic incidents in San Antonio.
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GOP senators, open to Paxton conviction, flipped when they realized they were still short the votes
‘I feel there were six senators who were ready to be the 21st vote,’ said Sen. Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas. ‘But they didn’t want to be the 20th vote.’
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Assclown Alert: Putting bias on full display with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Patrick tried to appear impartial during the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, but his recent words about the process suggest he had an agenda.
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Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial escalates Texas Republican civil war
Paxton’s far-right supporters doubled down on their promises for swift retribution against fellow Republicans who supported his removal from office.
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Impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could end this week
Both sides are quickly burning through their allotted time for testimony and cross examination of witnesses.
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Texas’ years-long refusal to accept the Medicaid expansion has dire consequences for the working poor
Texas is the nation’s most uninsured state, and San Antonio residents live with the consequences of leaders’ refusal to take federal money to expand coverage.
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Pressure mounts on Texas senators ahead of Ken Paxton impeachment trial
Senators who will act as jurors in the impeachment trial of the attorney general are being lobbied and targeted by political groups.