The Brief: Top Texas News for Sept. 4, 2012

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With Julián Castro just hours away from making his national debut, some Texas Democrats say their comeback begins tonight.

Like their Republican counterparts last week in Tampa, Fla., Texas Democrats were passed over for the prime real estate in their party's national convention, which starts today in Charlotte, N.C. (Those slots this year go to Illinois and Delaware, the president and vice president's home states, and swing states like Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia.) Texas Democrats have, like the Republicans, also been housed several miles from their convention site, largely secluded from the ...

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