On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Cassi and Patrick about what we learned from recent campaign finance reports, a nationally targeted special election runoff for a Texas House seat, and presidential endorsements.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Michael Bloomberg’s Texas strategy is expensive and unprecedented. Can it work?
Bloomberg is skipping the early states and hoping his big staff and big spending in states like Texas can launch him to victory.
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Homeless in Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas nonprofits helping refugees should focus on homelessness. Refugee groups say it doesn’t work that way.
“Resettlement funding cannot simply be reallocated to other problem areas such as homelessness,” said the CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Warren reveals more endorsements from former Castro, O’Rourke supporters
The Massachusetts U.S. senator’s latest endorsements come from four state lawmakers who represent O’Rourke’s native El Paso and previously supported him or Castro.
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Meet the Texas-based church security business training worshippers to fight back in mass shootings
Texas has seen two mass shootings in churches in three years, which has some churchgoers exploring training programs to take down an attacker.
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Trump names U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe to advisory and advocacy role during impeachment trial
The Heath Republican was an outspoken defender of President Donald Trump during impeachment hearings in the U.S. House last year.
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Analysis: Voters elect Texas’ judges. The state might take that power — but it’s risky.
Even the Texas lawmakers who want to change the way the state selects judges are wary of taking that power away from voters. The politics are more difficult, in some ways, than the proposed policy changes.
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Texas 2020 Elections
In Houston congressional district, Republicans see a chance to boost party diversity and reflip a seat
U.S. Rep. Lizzie Pannill Fletcher won Texas’ 7th Congressional District for the Democrats in 2018. Republicans are vying for a chance to win it back.
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Texas 2020 Elections
“The farmers are sticking with Trump”: President touts new trade deal during Austin speech
The president also exuded confidence that Texas will remain in Republican hands in 2020, despite some political watchers suggesting it’s more purple than it has been in years.
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Texan Ken Starr joins Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team
Starr was president of Baylor University during a time when the school was rocked by sexual assault scandals.