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Nathaniel Moran’s predecessor in Congress, Louie Gohmert, rose to prominence as a bombastic congressman prone to propagating baseless conspiracy theories ... Show more

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Texas Republicans honor retiring Rep. Louie Gohmert as he departs: Split-screen moment was a fitting farewell for the Tyler Republican who has been one of...
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Texas Republicans honor retiring Rep. Louie Gohmert as he departs
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Video of Lauren Boebert at Republican Christmas Party Viewed 870K Times: A video of House Republicans sharing Mountain Dew and squirted cheese at a party has ...
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Video of Lauren Boebert at Republican Christmas Party Viewed 870K Times
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Former colleague bills Reps. Gohmert and Gosar as conspiracy theorists: Republican Denver Riggleman brands House Freedom Caucus members Louie Gohmert and Paul ...
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Former colleague bills Reps. Gohmert and Gosar as conspiracy theorists
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Republican ex-congressman suggests colleagues ‘had serious cognitive issues’: Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert were eager to believe ‘wild, dramatic fantasies’ ...
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Republican ex-congressman suggests colleagues ‘had serious cognitive ...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert Compares FBI Office To Sin Cities 'Sodom And Gomorrah': Rightwing lawmaker claims he learned of "sexual improprieties" at bureau headquarters ...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert Compares FBI Office To Sin Cities 'Sodom And Gomorrah'
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36th Congressional District: Houston Chronicle endorses Jon Haire: The future looks bright to nuclear engineer Jon Haire and we agree. The election-denying...
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36th Congressional District: Houston Chronicle endorses Jon Haire
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Vice President Kamala Harris will headline a Texas Democratic Party event in October, according to the party. It will be the Biden administration's ... Show more

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Republican congressman presents convicted January 6 rioter with flag flown over US Capitol after her release from prison
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Gov. Greg Abbott sent two more buses of migrants to Washington, D.C., on Thursday that were dropped off near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris ... Show more

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A nurse practitioner is returning to his hometown in West Texas to provide health care as rural hospitals close and it becomes harder to access preventive ... Show more

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could be deposed about securities fraud accusations after November’s midterm elections ... Show more

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Texas ranks last among states in access to health care and has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country. Two longtime doctors in rural Henderson ... Show more

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Democrat Mike Collier is increasingly leaning into his background as a former Republican as he tries to pull off an upset against GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ... Show more

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GOP Congressman Gives 1/6 Rioter Flag Flown Over Capitol, Calls Her 'Hero': Louie Gohmert said Friday that Dr. Simone Gold, who pleaded guilty to her role in the ...
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GOP Congressman Gives 1/6 Rioter Flag Flown Over Capitol, Calls Her 'Hero'
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Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he will be off the campaign trail indefinitely after being diagnosed with a bacterial infection.

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Born from the Chicano movement of the 1960s, La Raza Unida helped coalesce Texas Latino power and briefly formed the state’s third political party ... Show more

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Gov. Greg Abbott joined 21 Republican governors Monday in denouncing President Joe Biden’s student loan relief plan, asserting that the thousands of dollars ... Show more

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A commission tasked by the Texas Legislature to recommend new ways to fund community colleges is suggesting the state fund schools based on how successful ... Show more

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A Texas attorney for the far-right militia group the Oath Keepers has been indicted on four counts related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol ... Show more

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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says he will vote against a bill to codify same-sex marriage protections into federal law, one of the few remaining Democratic priorities ... Show more

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Gohmert gifts convicted January 6 rioter with flag flown over Capitol: Gohmert referred to Dr. Simone Gold, who took a plea agreement for charges tied to her ...
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Gohmert gifts convicted January 6 rioter with flag flown over Capitol
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Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke have agreed to a Sept. 30 debate in the Rio Grande Valley.

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Texas oil and gas regulators approved new rules Tuesday that will require natural gas companies to prepare equipment for extreme weather and pay a $5 ... Show more

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Several officials named on leaked Oath Keepers' membership rolls told The Texas Tribune that they weren't familiar with the group's mission ... Show more

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CBP officials said the drownings occurred Thursday morning after a large group attempted to cross the Rio Grande, whose currents were running swiftly after ... Show more

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Tony Gonzales broke with his party to support sweeping gun safety legislation that passed after the city’s tragedy. He drew backlash from GOP activists ... Show more

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Agitators crowded a routine public testing of voting machines in Hays County this week and demanded responses to false conspiracy theories about election ... Show more

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Breaking: A Texas jury has ordered Alex Jones to pay $4.1 million to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim who sued the conspiracy theorist for ... Show more

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President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan could lower debt for more than half of Texas college graduates ... Show more

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Text messages and emails from Alex Jones show that he contradicted his own testimony during his defamation trial held Wednesday ... Show more

Quick Glance: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to the Sandy Hook family.
  • These punitive damages are in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages he must pay to the mother and father of a 6-year-old boy slain in the 2012 shooting.

  • Late Friday, jurors issued a decision against Alex Jones, ordering him to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child slain in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

  • "[Alex Jones] is worth almost $270 million that we know of."

  • The verdict concluded off a terrible trial for the conspiracy theorist, which included his own lawyers handing a lawyer for the Sandy Hook victim's family two years' worth of Jones' damaging text conversations.
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Louie Gohmert leaves Congress with one law and many falsehoods: Gohmert was a precursor to former President Donald Trump’s brand of populist ...
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Louie Gohmert leaves Congress with one law and many falsehoods
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Gov. Greg Abbott is sending state troopers to Uvalde for an “anti-gang effort” after two juveniles were injured in a shooting ... Show more

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Armed services veteran David P. Bighia has been fighting the Air Force in an employment discrimination case for more than eight years ... Show more

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A Texas judge threw out the state bar’s professional misconduct case against Brent Webster, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s top aide ... Show more

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Menstrual products are tax-free in 24 states. Texas isn't one of them.

Efforts to repeal the "tampon tax" have failed before and removing the ... Show more

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A century of enterprise brought the Rio Grande to its brink. Now authorities are “praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom on ... Show more

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Kayli Lord aged out of the foster care system without being adopted. She’s now a 23-year-old master's student at Texas State University — something she ... Show more

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An adult Harris County resident who was diagnosed with monkeypox has died. State health officials cautioned that they are still investigating how the virus ... Show more

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Guy Reffitt has been sentenced to 7 ¼ years in prison for bringing a gun to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, helping instigate the insurrection and ... Show more

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When a second busload of migrants arrived in New York City from the Texas border on Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams was there to greet them — and again slam Gov ... Show more

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Weston thought he had fully come to terms with his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Then he saw the video of her speaking at a school board meeting ... Show more

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Uvalde school officials could fire Pete Arredondo, the school district’s police chief, on Aug. 24.

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The Biden administration has offered to free a Russian arms dealer in exchange for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, two Americans being detained in Russia ... Show more

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New: WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner of Houston has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court after bringing less than a gram of ... Show more

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A state district judge ruled the Texas Department of Public Safety does not have to release records related to the Uvalde school shooting for now based on a ... Show more

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To stay in Congress, Mayra Flores bets Democratic South Texas is ready for an outspoken conservative

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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz helped the Senate pass a bill providing care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Last week, he drew criticism after voting to delay ... Show more

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The Gulf of Mexico’s first offshore wind farms will be developed off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, the Biden administration announced Wednesday ... Show more

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A coalition of news organizations including The Texas Tribune has sued the Department of Public Safety, alleging it's illegally withheld body camera ... Show more

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BREAKING: A Texas House committee released an exhaustive report of the Uvalde shooter, his planning, his attack and the fumbling response ... Show more

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Texas schools have long had too few teachers. The pandemic worsened the state's teacher shortage — but issues like low pay ... Show more

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Louie Gohmert says 'grieves' for Capitol rioters in prison after hearing: Thursday night's Jan. 6 hearing found that Trump did little to try to stop his fans ...
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Louie Gohmert ‘Grieves’ for Imprisoned Insurrectionists on Night of Jan. 6 Hearing
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Beto O’Rourke raised $27.6 million from late February through June, according to his campaign.

That’s the most money a Texan seeking state office ... Show more

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Gov. Greg Abbott signed a state disaster declaration Tuesday for 23 counties after the Dallas area experienced what he described as the city’s second-worst ... Show more

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NEW: The state’s power grid operator is asking Texans again to conserve energy on Wednesday as it expects record-high demand for power amid ongoing ... Show more

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College-bound Uvalde students worry how the mass shooting at Robb Elementary will define them in their new environments and struggle with guilt about the ... Show more

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Breaking: The Texas grid operator is urging electricity conservation on Monday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. You can conserve power by setting your thermostat to 78 ... Show more

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New: Pete Arredondo, the law enforcement official state police said was most responsible for a flawed response to the Uvalde elementary school shooting in ... Show more

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In this week's TribCast, we discuss the power grid, the race for governor and the extra money the Texas Legislature will have on hand to spend next ... Show more

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Legal questions shroud Gov. Greg Abbott's recent order authorizing Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guard service members stationed at ... Show more

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The couple saved at least $2,300 in property taxes, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.

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Concan, an unincorporated area in Uvalde County, is busing in thousands of gallons of water to keep the region from going dry ... Show more

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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s lead over Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke narrowed to 6 points last month, according to a poll conducted by the Texas ... Show more

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First Lady Jill Biden apologized Tuesday after she said that the Latino community was “as unique as the breakfast tacos” during a San Antonio speech Monday ... Show more

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Linda Coffee was 30 years old when she won a U.S. Supreme Court case protecting the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. Now 79 ... Show more

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In an interview with The Texas Tribune following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said he would repeal ... Show more

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Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert Among Republicans Who Asked Donald Trump for Pardons After Jan. 6
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Quick Glance: Trump to a Justice Department official: "Just say the"
  • The House committee's note read, "Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."

  • On Thursday, the January 6 committee revealed scans of notes taken by Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general during Trump's final days in office.

  • One note, labeled Republican Rep.

  • "That's an exact quote from the president, yes," Donoghue said.
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New Mexico has now been cemented as one of the closest safe havens for abortion for a large swath of states amid the end of Roe v. Wade ... Show more

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Texas leaders announced Tuesday that over $100 million in state funds will be given to boost school safety and mental health services following the Uvalde ... Show more

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Weeks after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday advanced what could be the first major federal legislation on gun ... Show more

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The detention of WNBA player Brittney Griner, who was arrested in Russia more than four months ago, has been extended by six months pending the outcome of ... Show more

Quick Glance: Layshia Clarendon of the WNBA: Republicans are coming for all of our rights. Yours as well. | Opinion
  • Nothing beyond that is actual freedom until we are free to chose what is proper for our own flesh and the same for our offspring.

  • --One transsexual student participating in female athletics.

  • Under the pretense of safeguarding women and girls, Idaho's "Fairness in Women's Sports Act" was passed into law in March.

  • Republicans want us to debate the virtues of transgender athletes in sports while passing awful policies like this that impact everyone's children and rights.
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In the fall, the Texas School Safety Center plans to start randomly checking school buildings to detect weak access points ... Show more

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Despite abortion services coming to an end, Texans still have access to a range of birth control and reproductive health care services through most health ... Show more

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South Texas county officials called on Gov. Greg Abbott to declare an “invasion” under the Texas and U.S. constitutions and begin using state resources to ... Show more