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The 2019 Texas Tribune Festival
Watch a 2019 Texas Tribune Festival conversation about El Paso, Dayton and mass shootings
Watch a conversation with El Paso Mayor Dee Margo and Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley as they talked about an unbearably tragic weekend and a remarkably resilient aftermath.
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Politics
Analysis: Texas gun laws might not change, but the conversation is evolving
Repeated mass shootings can change officials’ minds about their policy stances. After recent massacres, Texas politicians and officeholders are talking about guns in new ways.
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Courts
How hard-charging Dallas lawyer William Brewer III helped fuel a civil war inside the NRA
The well-known attorney’s hardball methods were labeled “Rambo tactics” long ago by other Dallas lawyers. Now the Democratic donor has emerged as a major figure in the fracturing of the powerful gun lobby.
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TribCast
TribCast: Texas Democrats get their debate moments; a gun debate at home
In this edition of the TribCast, Emma talks to Ross, Patrick and Alexa about the Democratic debate, background checks for stranger-to-stranger gun purchases and a Fort Worth woman who faces a five-year prison sentence for casting a ballot that didn’t count.
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Analysis: Back on the outs, right where Michael Quinn Sullivan thrives
The conservative Empower Texans leader was out of favor with Republican state leaders at the end of the legislative session. Now he’s on the outs with them in a whole new way.
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Beto O’Rourke’s call for mandatory buyback of assault weapons roils Texas politics
The Democratic presidential candidate’s proposal has upended the gun debate nationwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in Texas. It’s here that both parties are facing internal divisions as they work to respond to recent shootings in El Paso and Odessa.
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Politics
Texas Republican lawmaker to Beto O’Rourke: “My AR is ready for you”
State Rep. Briscoe Cain’s tweet was taken as a death threat against a presidential candidate from a state that recently experienced two mass shootings.
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Beto O’Rourke gets debate moment: “Hell yes, we’re going to take your” assault weapons
The Democratic presidential candidate offered an unapologetic defense of his proposal to mandate buybacks of assault weapons.
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Analysis: The end for a time-honored Republican recipe in Texas politics
Texas Republicans are talking openly — and in opposition to gun rights advocates — about firearms restrictions that used to be sacrosanct for conservative politicians.
