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Starting now, GOP strategists should know, “if we’re on hurricane watch or hurricane warning.” @cd_hooks breaks down what we can *actually* glean from surge of early voting in Texas.
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Here's my dispatch from a Paxton rally back in July texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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NEW from me: Dallas billionaire and GOP donor Kelcy Warren’s ranch was facing the prospect of enormous high-voltage transmission lines. Then the proposed route changed. Few other landowners have seen such relief.
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NEW from @Forrest4Trees: Revised maps show Kelcy Warren, a major donor to President Trump and Governor Greg Abbott, no longer faces the prospect of transmission lines severing his property even as hundreds of other landowners beg for relief.
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"When I asked Pulido if he would join the Blue Dog Coalition if he won his race, he responded, “Oh, hell yes. Are you kidding me? Yeah. Yes, absolutely.” No one has ever sounded more enthusiastic about joining a small centrist congressional group." texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
If she is elected, Hinojosa is vowing to appoint both Republicans and Democrats and build a “postpartisan” administration—beginning with the Texas Education Agency. “I’m going to fire Mike Morath on day one and hire an educator,” she says.
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NEW: Can tejano musician Bobby Pulido help win back South Texas for the Dems? @TexasMonthly's Eric Benson followed him across the state—from campaign events-turned-concerts, to weddings, and more—to find out how Texans are responding.
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.@Forrest4Trees spent a year reporting this story on UT-interviewing professors, students, & staff: "I was struck by the degree of fear on campus and the sense that a freewheeling intellectual culture was dead or dying." Hook 'em, Forrest @TexasMonthly texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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Texas Republicans used to debate. This cycle, they won't. (Gift link).
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With early voting already underway, we're likely to close out this election cycle without a single debate between top-of-the-ticket candidates.
Why? texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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.@UTAustin President Jim Davis will give his state of UT address at 3 pm today.
Before then, clear your morning to read this masterful piece by @Forrest4Trees on where UT is today. ⬇️
The University of Texas is on the verge of becoming one of the top five public universities in the country.
But will a new conservative administration and political meddling by Republican lawmakers mess up a good thing? texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
French’s widely condemned post of a UT football game “laid bare something that the highfalutin debates over academic freedom sometimes obscure: that UT’s diversity, Texas’s diversity, is seen by some in power not as a strength but as a terrible problem.”
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The University of Texas is on the verge of becoming one of the top five public universities in the country.
But will a new conservative administration and political meddling by Republican lawmakers mess up a good thing? texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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Last month Jane Coates flew to Texas from her home in Warrington, England, to demand that Collin County officials reopen the investigation into her daughter's fatal shooting. The shooter was Coates's ex-husband, who said it was an accident. texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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Though it’s unpatriotic, I have to note something here about the Battle of the Alamo
New @TexasTribune: Ken Paxton is setting off on a "Come And Take It" bus tour that will take him to over 30 stops across Texas and land him at the Alamo on the eve of Election Day.
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“Separation of church and state”—filthy myth used by secularists to obscure America’s true Christian heritage? Or brilliant idea conceived by the founders as a bulwark against theocracy? Where Dan Patrick leads, Donald Trump follows. @TexasMonthly texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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Fascinating tidbit in this interview with @DadePhelan: The former Republican speaker says that Texas Republicans anti-transgender ads aren't "resonating."
"What Republicans are talking about is just not what the swing voter is really interested in."
TX Monthly: Fmr. Speaker Dade Phelan Says Republicans Are “Freaking Out” & why he is buying the Blue Wave. texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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This is a great interview, but here’s the key part. It’s not just Cornyn—Paxton’s side has spent 15 years calling khaki Rs traitors and degenerates and that’s not easy to fix texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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The former Texas House speaker and Paxton antagonist on why he’s buying a blue wave: texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
Look at this photograph ...
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