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Texas governor signs disaster declaration for 16 counties ripped apart by tornadoes, storms

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a disaster declaration for 16 counties where severe storms swept through Monday, tearing open schools and leveling homes.

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Guardian of the Guard

Jason Featherston, who has devoted more than half his life to the National Guard, is now the leading critic of Governor Greg Abbott’s border surge.

Texas Observer

Tornado warning - live: Video shows Texas Walmart shoppers being dragged as South now faces flooding

About 22 million people are at risk for severe storms

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Texas appeals court again halts child abuse investigations into parents of transgender youth

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas appeals court has again temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents solely for providing gender affirming care to their transgender children.

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Beto O’Rourke officially responds to oil pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren’s defamation lawsuit

DALLAS — Democratic nominee for governor Beto O’Rourke on Monday reaffirmed that he wouldn’t let a defamation lawsuit brought by billionaire energy executive Kelcy Warrant “silence” him from telling Texans how Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s allowed energy companies to “profit off last year’s power grid failure.”

Tribune News Service

Texas appeals court temporarily blocks investigations of families with trans kids

The temporary injunction is "necessary to maintain the status quo and preserve the rights of all parties."

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DISRUPT, DEPLETE, DESTROY

This is merely the latest incarnation of a decades-old Republican playbook to discredit, defund, and ultimately destroy the Texas public education system.

Texas Observer

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Gov. Greg Abbott signs disaster declaration for 11 counties as wildfires rage west of Fort Worth

Dozens of local, county and state crews were struggling to contain a cluster of wildfires about 120 miles west of Fort Worth on Friday. Fueled by wind and dry conditions, the largest of the fires had swelled to over 45,000 acres, burning dozens of homes, forcing evacuations in Abilene and…

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Transgender children, families rally outside Texas Capitol, Governor’s Mansion

AUSTIN, Texas — More than 200 people showed up on Gov. Greg Abbott’s doorstep Sunday with a message: Leave transgender children alone.

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Beto O’Rourke calls Texas governor Greg Abbott an ‘authoritarian’ and ‘thug’

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate compared his Republican opponent to the Russian president Vladimir Putin

The Guardian - US

Judge blocks Texas from investigating parents of transgender children

The halt follows an ACLU lawsuit that accused Greg Abbott of trampling ‘on the constitutional rights of transgender children’

The Guardian - US

Editorial: Does Texas have a solution to teacher shortages?

We are pleased that Gov. Greg Abbott wants a task force to examine the reasons behind a chronic shortage of teachers in Texas and to recommend policy changes. But if we’re truly honest with ourselves, most of us already know a few uncomfortable truths about this shortage.

Tribune News Service

Does Texas think transgender care is abuse? Ken Paxton’s comments contradict state's legal stance

AUSTIN, Texas — Fighting to keep his job in a heated GOP primary this year, Attorney General Ken Paxton repeatedly insisted that certain medical treatments for transgender youth abusive and illegal.

Tribune News Service

Texas flagged 27,000 mail ballots for rejection in primary

More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S. It puts the rate of rejected mail ballots in Texas on track to significantly surpass previous elections

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Salon

Trans teen caught up in Paxton's game

Parents of a trans child who reached out to Paxton over dinner are now under investigation for child abuse

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Beto O’Rourke says Dallas pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren’s defamation lawsuit won’t silence him

DALLAS — Beto O’Rourke is being sued for defamation by Dallas billionaire Kelcy Warren in what the Democratic gubernatorial nominee describes as an effort to silence him from criticizing energy companies that he says made illegal profits from last year’s winter storm that left millions without power.

The Independent UK

Oil billionaire GOP donor sues Beto O'Rourke for defamation

A Texas oil pipeline billionaire is suing Beto O’Rourke for defamation after the Democrat criticized his $1 million donation to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign following last year’s deadly winter blackout

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Gender-affirming care needs more research, not more politics

It is hard for most of us to imagine what it is like to have a child who is experiencing gender dysphoria. Even as the number of children expressing such feelings has been rising at a concerning rate across the country, such cases remain a tiny fraction of the total…

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Axios

"Terrifying": Understanding Abbott's order on trans kids in Texas

"To equate gender affirming care with child abuse is just outrageous and extremely harmful,"

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Biden says Texas transgender directive ‘must stop’ as White House moves to combat order

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday forcefully criticized a Texas effort to investigate the parents of children receiving gender-confirming treatment, calling the directive from Gov. Greg Abbott “cynical and dangerous” while vowing to support the families in question.

Axios

Culture war around care for transgender kids heats up

The culture war over transgender health care for kids is heating up again as Texas Governor Greg Abbott doubled down this week on a rule directing state officials to investigate 'transition care' for minors as "child abuse."

Tribune News Service

As judge halts directive regarding transgender child, Biden tells Texans to file federal complaints

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a new state directive defining gender-affirming care for transgender children as “child abuse” in the case of a 16-year-old teenager.

The Independent UK

Judge blocks Texas investigation of trans teen’s parents

A Texas judge has blocked the state from investigating the parents of a transgender teenager over gender confirming treatments she’s received

Al Jazeera

Abbott to face O’Rourke as Texas primaries set political field

Progressive Democrats fare well, pro-Trump candidates yield mixed results as early voting starts in US 2022 election.

Reason

Texas Sued As State Starts Investigating Parents of Trans Children for 'Child Abuse'

ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”

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