Julián Castro announces presidential run
Julián Castro, the former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor, made it official Saturday: He's running for president. Full Story
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![Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro announces his 2020 bid for president in San Antonio on Jan. 12, 2019. Castro served as mayor of San Antonio from 2009 to 2014.]()
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Watch Julián Castro announce his presidential run
Julián Castro announced his 2020 bid for president in San Antonio on Saturday. Full Story
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![Former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor Julián Castro talks to reporters about his potential run for president in 2020. Castro held the press conference in his home in San Antonio on Dec. 12, 2018.]()
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National left-wing group creates fund to oust Laredo Democrat Henry Cuellar from Congress
Justice Democrats, which helped elect New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has made the seven-term Texas official its first target for the 2020 primaries. Full Story
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Bill would prevent Texans from unknowingly buying homes in areas designed to flood
After Hurricane Harvey inundated the Houston area with rain, scores of homeowners learned too late that their properties were designed to flood. Senate Bill 339 would require sellers to disclose that risk, as well as whether a home has previously flooded. Full Story
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Cornyn, Cruz doubt Trump would use Harvey funds for border wall; Cornyn says he'd oppose it
Reports surfaced that the Trump administration would divert funds meant for Hurricane Harvey relief to help build the president's long-sought border wall. Full Story
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Tornillo tent city for youth migrants is now empty, Texas congressman says
"This tent city should never have stood in the first place," U.S. Rep. Will Hurd said Friday on Twitter. Full Story
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Texas lawmakers indicate they may use rainy day fund for school security, hurricane recovery and teachers' pensions
Hurricane Harvey, school safety and teacher pensions all made the list of priorities likely to receive funding from the state's Economic Stabilization Fund. Full Story
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![Short meeting of the Legislative Budget Board to take stock of the health of the Texas economy for 2019 as likely incoming speaker Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, greets Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound.]()
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Oprah to interview Beto O'Rourke in New York in February
Oprah Winfrey is set to sit down with Beto O'Rourke on Feb. 5 as part of a series of conversations she's holding in Times Square in New York City. Full Story
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Texas officials vote to remove Confederate plaque that says Civil War wasn’t over slavery
State Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, has led a crusade to get rid of the plaque, which asserts the Civil War was “not a rebellion, nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery." Full Story
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![The "Children of the Confederacy Creed" plaque has drawn controversy for its denial that preserving slavery was an underlying cause of the Civil War. Dec. 5, 2018.]()
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Analysis: For Dan Patrick, something new — the passenger’s seat
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has been the biggest agenda-setter in state leadership in recent legislative sessions. With a narrower majority in the Senate, a closer result in his last election and a new House speaker in place, he's a bit quieter. Full Story
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At least 35,000 Texans with federal jobs aren’t being paid because of the shutdown
The partial federal shutdown could come to a head Friday, when tens of thousands of Texas federal workers will miss their paychecks. Meanwhile, officials also worry about small businesses who rely on federal contracts. Full Story
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Tarrant County GOP’s vice-chairman survives recall vote over his religion
County party officials overwhelmingly rejected attempts to remove Shahid Shafi because he's Muslim. The 139-49 vote in his favor came after the state's top Republican officials denounced the failed move to oust the trauma surgeon. Full Story
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![Shahid Shafi, his family behind him, speaks to the press on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. He said the vote result to keep him in his position of vice chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party reaffirmed his belief in the country and his party.]()
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Point of Order: How Dan Huberty wants to fix school finance
In our new podcast, Point of Order, Evan Smith asks Dan Huberty, chairman of the House Public Education Committee, what it will take — and what it will cost — for state lawmakers to solve the state's most intractable problem. Full Story
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In the Rio Grande Valley, Trump's visit to push for wall funding draws cheers and protests
Amid signs, shouts and waving flags, a veteran says Trump's talk of the border as a war zone is overblown and an immigrant from Mexico says she supports the president's push to protect the border. Full Story
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![President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he visits the banks of the Rio Grande River with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agents during the president's visit to the U.S. - Mexico border in Mission on Thursday, January 10, 2019.]()
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Donald Trump says Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick offered Texas' help building the border wall
It's unclear how serious the president is about the idea, but Gov. Greg Abbott expressed skepticism for such a plan since the federal government isn't committing the billions of dollars Trump wants. Full Story
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Bill would curtail criminal prosecutions of rent-to-own customers
Sen. Borris Miles, D-Houston, wants to restrain the practice of prosecuting people who default on rent-to-own contracts for household items like TVs and sofas. The proposal comes in the wake of an investigation of rent-to-own prosecutions by The Texas Tribune and Nerd Wallet. Full Story
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In increasingly diverse Texas, the Legislature remains mostly white and male
Here’s a look at the demographics of the 86th Legislature by lawmakers’ race, gender, age, education and religion. Full Story
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Watch: A conversation with Comptroller Glenn Hegar
Watch our interview with Glenn Hegar, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, at the beginning of the 86th legislative session. Full Story
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Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick and Dennis Bonnen promise unity in 2019 legislative session
Texas' top three leaders are eager to show they're on the same page as the 86th legislative session begins. Full Story
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Texas House votes to strengthen sexual harassment investigations
The chamber voted on a resolution that moves misconduct complaints to a committee with subpoena power. Full Story
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![House Speaker Dennis Bonnen presiding over his first votes as speaker of the house. Jan. 9, 2019. Miguel Gutierrez Jr. / The Texas Tribune.]()
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