reporter @statesman👩🏻‍💻 | formerly @chron @HoustonPress | @ecjrn alum | Htown 4ever
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Texas AG Ken Paxton has taken about 350 out-of-state trips with a state-funded security detail, including 25 to foreign countries.
During a 2017 Israel trip, organizers said Paxton insisted on his own security despite the government providing it for six other AGs. His detail cost $75,000.
New with @bethreinhard:
nytimes.com/2026/10/26/us/po… #txlege
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Last year, Mark Miller's death by suicide in the VA parking lot reverberated through the veteran community
Now, his dad is pleading for change to VA protocol, echoing a sentiment common among vets - that traditional PTSD treatment just isn't cutting it
sanantonioreport.org/larry-m…
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Texas resident and construction company owner Benny Melendez says he’s regretting his decision to vote for President Trump in 2024, in part because of ICE’s deportation efforts.
“He said he was going to go and get all the criminals,” Melendez told CBS News’ @camiloreports. “Our workers are not the criminals.”
Melendez says many of his workers are now scared to show up to work, fearing arrest and deportation.
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Here is a small sampling of the most overt racism from Bo French, who was just hosted by Lakepointe Church. Related: Supporting racism is among the things that can get churches booted from the Southern Baptist Convention, of which Lakepointe is a member.
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See the full list of where competitive #txlege seats stand through one week of EV: texasbullpen.com/daily-bull/…
In Monday's Daily Bull:
➡️A partisan balance breakdown of early votes cast so far in #txlege battlegrounds.
➡️@jamestalarico launches closing message.
➡️Knocking doors with @GregAbbott_TX.
texasbullpen.com/daily-bull/…
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New: head of CBP Rodney Scott tells @AP if the Big Bend region doesn't get new border infrastructure like other parts of the U.S. he's "100% convinced it will be completely overrun and destroyed." marfapublicradio.org/news/20…
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NEW: After a Longhorns win 9/12, @UTAustin celebrated, posting an “apply now!” link & tracking who posted a photo with PJD (UT’s Jim Davis)
But 9/13, when Bo French posted a racist tweet about its student, UT was quiet. What happened behind the scenes⬇️
statesman.com/news/education…
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Just in: @JDVance to hold midterm rally in Weatherford, TX on Thursday, per RNC
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“It’s good to be home,” Democrat @GinaHinojosaTX says to thousands at a get-out-to-vote rally in Weslaco.
Hinojosa said Texas is ready to end Gov Greg Abbott’s 30 year political career.
“People want change,” she said. – at Weslaco, TX
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Houston: Hundreds of Texans leaving their "I voted" stickers at the site where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot by ICE
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Inbox: Congressional Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York is joining Congresswoman Garcia to discuss "Trump administration’s cruel mass deportation machine is affecting the city’s workforce,"
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I’m in Weslaco in the Rio Grande Valley right now for a get-out-the-vote rally with @jamestalarico @GinaHinojosaTX & @PulidoForTexas. Check out the crowd as they wait for them and @tigresdelnorte who will perform later.
.@GregAbbott_TX is block walking in Hutto following his campaign stop
.@GregAbbott_TX is in the building
📍Hutto for @GregAbbott_TX ’s campaign stop — the line keeps going and going and we’re an hour out from doors opening
📍Hutto for @GregAbbott_TX ’s campaign stop — the line keeps going and going and we’re an hour out from doors opening
@GovHotWheels_TX ’s team tells me they have roughly 1,000 RSVPs for the event
Programming starts w/ @PeteSessions making an Ella Langley “Choosin’ Texas” reference
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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip.
The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century.
But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵