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Texas Democrats aim for unity ahead of expected primary to take on U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz

Lose Cruz, a new super PAC, promises big spending to help the party’s eventual nominee in the 2024 campaign.

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan join forces on property taxes. It might help the push for school vouchers.

Phelan announced the formation of a House committee that could set the tone in favor of vouchers ahead of an expected special session on education. The move comes weeks after Abbott sided with Phelan on a plan to lower property taxes.

The Texas Tribune

Scoop: New "Lose Cruz" PAC to funnel millions in 2024 race

The Texas Senate race will be one of the most closely watched in 2024.

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A Guatemalan asylum-seeker is recruiting family and friends to join him in North Texas

DALLAS — Carlos Joaquin Salinas feels desperate, lonely and tempted.

Tribune News Service

Election legislation roundup: Texas House of Representatives

As of June 11, Ballotpedia has tracked 188 election-related bills in the Texas House of Representatives since the beginning of the year. Of the 188, Ballotpedia tracked two from June 5-11. Democrats sponsored one, while Republicans sponsored the other. The two bills are below:

Ballotpedia

Angels come from behind to beat Rangers for second straight game

ARLINGTON, Texas — Hunter Renfroe picked a good time to show signs of snapping out of his slump.

The Orange County Register

DeSantis’ office tells appeals court it withheld migrant documents because of hurricane

MIAMI — Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday argued that because his administration was busy dealing with Hurricane Ian last year, it didn’t violate the state’s public records law when it failed to turn over documents related to its plan to fly migrants from Texas to Massachusetts in September.

Miami Herald

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Texas grid braces for record demand amid a summer ‘weather watch’

AUSTIN – The operator of Texas’ power grid issued a “weather watch” ahead of what the agency projects could be record demand this week as temperatures are forecast to top 100 degrees in North Texas.

Tribune News Service

Texas family moves so trans teen can escape anti-LGTBQ laws: ‘I’d rather be out than dead’

Texas part of wave of Republican states cracking down on trans youth

The Independent UK

On Trump indictment, deafening silence from many Texas Republicans in Congress

WASHINGTON — A handful of Texas Republicans in Congress have energetically defended Donald Trump since the Justice Department accused him of mishandling classified documents he shouldn’t have kept after leaving the White House.

Tribune News Service

US: Online asylum appointments halted at 1 Texas crossing because of Mexican city's safety woes

The Biden administration says the reason it halted online asylum appointments at the international crossing in Laredo, Texas was because of the “security situation” across the border in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo

The Independent UK

House with $50m asking price could become the most expensive property in Texas

Propety includes one main house and three guest homes

The Independent UK

Where to photograph 2023’s ‘ring of fire’ annular solar eclipse in America

A 5-minute annular solar eclipse will be visible from Oregon to Texas. Here’s when and where to go

Digital Camera World

Nat-Gas Prices Surge on Scorching Heat in Texas

July Nymex natural gas (NGN23 ) on Tuesday closed up +0.074 (+3.27%). July nat-gas Tuesday rallied sharply on the outlook for increased power demand in Texas, the largest nat-gas consuming state. The Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said Tuesday that due to soaring temperatures this week, it expects air-conditioning...

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Incumbents defeated in Texas city council runoff elections

The nonpartisan general runoff elections in city councils in San Antonio, Irving, Fort Worth, and Dallas, Texas, were on June 10, 2023. The general elections were held on May 6, and the filing deadline to run was on Feb. 17.

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Texas Property Tax Relief in 2024

Homeowners have started saving due to a Texas property tax relief package passed last year. Here's a breakdown of the tax cuts.

Roll Call

Retired Reps. Mike Doyle, Kevin Brady win their greatest elections yet — into the Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame - Roll Call

Doyle, D-Pa., and Brady, R-Texas, will be inducted into the Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Gay Texas woman shot dead at a gas station by gunman shouting anti-LGBT+ slurs

‘I just want people to stop hating on people for whatever they decide to do in life,’ Akira Ross’s grieving father said

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In U.S. House, the far right gains a powerful spending-cuts ally in Texas Republican Kay Granger

The chair of the House Appropriations Committee vows to hold spending bills to 2022 levels to counter “years of out-of-control spending.”

USA Today Sports Media Group

Did ‘Stanford twilight’ cost Texas a trip to the College World Series?

There's a reasonable explanation for the brutal end to Texas' baseball season.

The Independent UK

The Covid con: How billions in coronavirus relief was stolen or wasted

Criminals and gangs grabbed the money. But so did a US soldier in Georgia, the pastors of a defunct church in Texas, a former state lawmaker in Missouri and a roofing contractor in Montana

The Texas Tribune

T-Squared: The regular 2023 legislative session is behind us. We were with Texans the whole way.

The Tribune’s editor-in-chief on covering the 2023 Texas legislative session.

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Sharleen Spiteri of Texas

Have you got something to ask the Scottish singer and guitarist ahead of the band’s performance at Glastonbury? Send it our way and we’ll put it to her

Ballotpedia

Election legislation roundup: Texas State Legislature

As of June 11, members of the Texas State Legislature, which includes the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas State Senate, have passed 10 bills related to election administration since the beginning of the year. Of those 10 bills, legislators passed four during the week of June 5-11. This…

The Texas Tribune

Where Texas redistricting lawsuits stand after U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Alabama case

The high court left intact a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act in a case many feared would go the other way. The decision’s importance in ongoing litigation over Texas’ political maps will largely be felt in what didn’t happen.

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