The hardline conservative group can claim a victory for ousting Bonnen. But will that be good for its ideological interests?
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Texas Voting Rights
Texas Democrats are suing the state over its move to end temporary voting locations
The lawsuit — filed with the Democratic campaign arms for the U.S. House and Senate — alleges that a change in state law that effectively ends the use of temporary or mobile early voting sites is unconstitutional because it discriminates against young voters.
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Homeless in Texas
Texas getting ready to move homeless residents camping beneath Austin highways
The Texas Department of Transportation began posting notices Tuesday letting homeless Austin residents know they must leave encampments under state overpasses by early next week.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Elizabeth Warren and Julián Castro may be rivals — but they’re buddies, too
As one candidate’s stock has climbed and the other’s has dipped, Warren and Castro have continued to share policy ideas — and hugs — on the campaign trail.
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Politics
Capitol insiders: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is letting the state’s budget agency fall apart
The Texas Legislative Budget Board is hemorrhaging staff and has been without an executive director for a year.
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Politics
Drawing Trump parallels, Sylvester Turner battles Tony Buzbee, other competitors in rollicking Houston mayoral race
Turner is fighting for a second term in the Nov. 5 election, invoking the president as he clashes with Buzbee and other competitors in the solidly Democratic city.
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Politics
Analysis: The best antidote for a political scandal? Sound a base note.
The state’s high officials probably don’t want to talk about the uproar around House Speaker Dennis Bonnen. And they’ve got plenty of distractions to keep it that way.
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Economy
Border U.S. representatives from Texas make final pleas as vote looms on North American trade deal
Texas members of Congress are playing an integral role in drafting final provisions in the deal. Some Republicans don’t think the House will get to vote on it this year.
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Politics
With a lame-duck speaker, Texas House confronts the work of the interim
For the next 14 months, the powerful committee chairs who called for House Speaker Dennis Bonnen to step down will be asked to carry out his will — and every decision the speaker makes will be viewed in the shadow of demise.
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Demographics
Donald Trump compared his impeachment to lynching. Texans in Congress respond: “How dare you?”
The White House insisted Trump wasn’t equating the impeachment probe to “one of our darkest moments in American history,” but Democrats said the president was “weaponizing hate.”