In a new campaign web video released Monday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst tells voters that “you can’t have opportunity without freedom” and urges them to “stand tall” with him against Washington encroachment on Texas values. He faces three challengers in the 2014 Republican primary.

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Morgan Smith was a reporter at the Tribune from 2009 to 2018, covering politics, public education and inequality. In 2013, she received a National Education Writers Association award for “Death of...