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Greg Abbott compares Hamas attacks to Texas border crossings at sheriffs’ conference
The governor’s comments followed a screening of raw Oct. 7 footage for Texas lawmen.
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Texas teachers stand behind Kamala Harris after years of feeling targeted, neglected by Republicans
At a gathering for teachers in Houston, educators saw Harris as a potential ally at a time when conservatives push for changes in Texas classrooms.
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House ethics chair says Paxton’s claim he’s being impeached again is meritless
Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday evening said the Texas House ethics committee, which scheduled a meeting for next week, is planning to recommend impeaching him a second time.
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Litigating Texas’ Republican civil war
The crusade against Texans for Lawsuit Reform and the rise of conservative lawfare reveal a new side of Texas’ ruling party.
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Suits and Shame: Tracking the fallout from Texas’ anti-LGBTQ+ laws
Many of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws the Texas Legislature passed as now under court challenge.
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Assclown Alert: Stoking the fires of anti-immigrant hate with Gov. Greg Abbott
The Texas governor’s new ‘most wanted list’ of immigrants is his latest attempt to gin up fear for political gain.
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‘War on white America’: Influential Texas group hosting pro-Christian nationalism conference
True Texas Project has for years worked with Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sen. Ted Cruz and other prominent Republicans.
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Bad Takes: Texas Republicans sure love to invoke Orwell without understanding his work
The extreme new platform the Texas GOP adopted at its San Antonio convention is about anything but freedom and democracy.
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How Ken Paxton is stretching the boundaries of consumer protection laws to pursue political targets
The attorney general repeatedly uses laws meant to protect against fraudulent or deceptive practices to target hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and LGBTQ+ groups.
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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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Documents detail how Texas’ DEI ban is changing university campuses
In an update to lawmakers, university system leaders expressed worries about how the ban might affect crucial applications for federal funds.
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Bad Takes: Texas Republicans’ war on DEI is a war on public institutions
The chair of UT’s Mexican American Studies program said those caught up in the layoffs are ‘largely Black and brown, queer and trans folks.’
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Texas politics leave transgender foster youth isolated — during and after life in state care
Support once afforded LGBTQ+ foster kids has vanished and a culture of silence has blanketed the agency tasked with raising children growing up in the system.
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Layoffs and upheaval at Texas universities spur fear as lawmakers continue DEI crackdown
As administrators scramble to comply with new limits on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, students and faculty worry more tumult is coming.
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Texas could require social media influencers to disclose paid political posts
The Tribune reported last year that a company called Influenceable LLC was paid to recruit influencers to defend Attorney General Ken Paxton over his impeachment.
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Ted Cruz tries to troll old law-school classmate, confuses him with someone else
Cruz wrongly identified California state Sen. Scott Wiener as former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned after reports that he sent naughty pics to women.
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Assclown Alert: Doubling down on a racist conspiracy theory with U.S. Rep. Chip Roy
The Austin-San Antonio congressman is once again spreading the racist ‘Great Replacement’ theory.
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Texas is among the worst states for women financially relative to men
Texas women earn considerably less than men and are far less likely to own businesses, contributing to the state’s third-from-the-bottom ranking.
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Texas county’s GOP officials declared hand count a success, but kept finding errors
At the canvass of the Gillespie County GOP primary, election workers said poor penmanship, data entry lapses, transposed numbers, and simple math mistakes led to discrepancies.
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The booksellers’ revolt
Texas’ READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools — and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.
