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Texas 2020 Elections
Tom Steyer hires a Texas state director
He’s the fourth Democratic presidential candidate who’s still in the race to announce such a hire.
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Politics
Sen. Ted Cruz launches daily podcast about Trump impeachment trial
In the podcast, Cruz reacts to what he’s seen in the trial and makes the case for defending the president.
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Health care
Obama cut women’s health money in Texas for the state’s targeting of Planned Parenthood. Trump just restored it.
The Trump administration announcement reverses an Obama-era decision in 2012 to cut federal women’s health funding to Texas. That came as punishment after the Texas Legislature excluded Planned Parenthood from the Healthy Texas Women program in 2011.
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TribCast
TribCast: The money fight for the Texas House and a very special election
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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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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Politics
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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Politics
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.