Texas Democrats raised the stakes in their effort to flip a Republican House seat to their side in Fort Bend County. It was a long-shot, promoted as a promising opportunity. And they lost, big.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Bernie Sanders endorses Jessica Cisneros, primary challenger to Henry Cuellar
Cisneros was one of nine candidates Sanders endorsed early Wednesday, in addition to incumbent Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Peter Welch of Vermont.
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Politics
How U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston landed in the middle of Donald Trump’s impeachment
Decades of nuts-and-bolts political work and a friendship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed the first-term congresswoman a starring role in the Senate trial of President Trump.
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Conservative activists helped elect Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Now some say there’s a disconnect.
A group of hardline grassroots activists has called on Patrick to be more outspoken on party priorities and worries that lines of communication appear to no longer be there.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analysis: Testing the Texas political waters by breaking the rules
Break the political rules and lose, you’re a footnote. But break them and win, and the whole game changes. Michael Bloomberg is the latest candidate to try on the presidential stage.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Republican Gary Gates handily beats Democrat Eliz Markowitz in Texas House District 28 runoff
Democrats had hoped the race would build momentum for their push to take control of the Texas House in November. The Houston-area contest garnered national attention and overshadowed two other special election runoffs for House districts Tuesday.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Bernie Sanders campaign homes in on Texas as primary nears
The Democratic presidential candidate is expanding its efforts in the state a little over a month before Texas’ delegate-rich primary.
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Higher Education
UT-Austin students condemn school’s handling of sexual misconduct cases
“You’re not trying to help us,” university President Greg Fenves and other administrators were told at an emotional public meeting called after months of campus protests.
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Marijuana in Texas
CBD, hemp, medical marijuana? Here’s what you need to know about Texas’ changing pot laws.
Marijuana and hemp are often indistinguishable by look or smell because they both come from the cannabis plant. But hemp is legal, and marijuana is not.
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Higher Education
Texas State Technical College bought furniture from store owned by CFO and his wife
College officials say there was no impropriety because their chief financial officer disclosed the conflict and had no say in the furniture purchased from the family store. An internal audit cleared the school and CFO of wrongdoing.
