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2022 midterm elections: What to know ahead of Texas' primary

The 2022 midterm election season opens Tuesday in Texas

The Independent UK

Texas border deployment gets nearly $5 million boost after GOP leaders move money from other agencies

AUSTIN, Texas — With no fanfare, five of Texas’ top Republican leaders late last month moved nearly a half-billion dollars from three law enforcement-related state agencies to pay for the mounting costs of keeping thousands of National Guard soldiers deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Tribune News Service

Heidi Stevens: Texas attempt to criminalize medical care for transgender youth is cynical exploitation of our bully moment

We’re living in a bully moment, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott just doubled down.

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Arike Ogunbowale Calls Out Texas Attorney General, Governor Over Transgender Stance

She called their stance ‘damaging.’

Sports Illustrated

USWNT Players Wear Wristbands to Denounce Texas Governor’s Anti-Transgender Order

Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse by their guardians.

Sports Illustrated

Texas governor order treats gender-confirming care as abuse

Texas Gov_ Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as “child abuse."

The Independent UK

Outrage after Texas attorney general calls gender-affirming surgery ‘child abuse’

Rights groups argue the attorney general’s opinions, which have no legal bearing, will spread fear and misinformation

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Dan Patrick’s Ban on Tenure Could Devastate Texas’ University System

The lieutenant governor’s proposal would not only do away with academic freedom; it would make attracting the best faculty near impossible.

Texas Observer

Abbott floats clemency for indicted Austin police officers

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is lashing out at the local prosecutor in his state’s capital, floating the possibility of clemency to 19 Austin police officers indicted for tactics used against during 2020 demonstrations against racial injustice

The Independent UK

Abbott moves to outlaw trans children

Greg Abbott calls gender-affirming care "child abuse," directs agencies to investigate the practice

Salon

Abbott orders state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care for trans kids as child abuse

Abbott wrote that doctors, nurses, teachers and anyone who comes into contact with a child has a requirement to report parents.

Axios

Poll: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott up 7 points over Beto O’Rourke; AG Ken Paxton likely headed to runoff

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott again holds a single-digit lead over Democrat Beto O’Rourke in the Texas governor’s race, while scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton probably is headed for a GOP runoff, according to a Dallas Morning News-University of Texas at Tyler poll released Sunday.

Tribune News Service

Texas rejecting record numbers of ballot requests as new law takes effect

Texas counties are rejecting record numbers of mail-in ballot applications just days after the start of early voting as post-2020 changes to voting laws reshape the conduct of elections in the second-largest U.S. state.

Tribune News Service

Abbott's border stunt blows up

“We're getting treated like sh*t": Texas Guardsman might unionize over conditions at the border

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Ballotpedia

The most abortion-related statewide ballot measures since 1986

Welcome to the Wednesday, February 16, Brew.

Texas Observer

Porn in Schools?: Texas GOP Sparks a Moral Panic Ahead of the Primaries

With bans on books and “critical race theory,” Republicans are scapegoating the state’s teachers for political gain.

Al Jazeera

US: Tough border rhetoric dominates in lead-up to Texas election

Republican leaders vying for Texas governorship trying to ‘out-Trump’ each other ahead of March 1 vote, observers say.

Tribune News Service

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says ‘plenty of power available’ from electricity grid as winter storm hits

AUSTIN — All indications are that Texas’ power grid is meeting demand so far.

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Mic

An incomplete list of times Texas leaders wished Texas had more guns

More than a dozen elementary school students were killed in a shooting near San Antonio today. This is how we got here.

The Independent UK

Flights canceled as wide swath of US braces for winter storm

A major winter storm was expected to affect a huge swath of the United States, with heavy snow starting in the Rockies and freezing rain as far south as Texas before it drops snow and ice on the Midwest

Tribune News Service

‘We are ready for this storm': Texas Gov. Abbott, ERCOT discuss winter storm prep ahead of freeze

DALLAS — Texas’ power grid is ready to handle the winter storm expected to hit the state on Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders said Tuesday at a news conference in Austin.

Tribune News Service

Beto O'Rourke to visit 20 cities over 12 days to mark anniversary of winter freeze

AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke will travel to 20 cities and towns across Texas over 12 days to mark the anniversary of the deadly February winter storms and power outages, his campaign announced Monday.

Tribune News Service

Abbott support remains solid on border issues, but costs of wall aren’t popular, says new poll

DALLAS — Thirty-six percent of Texas registered voters say it is reasonable to spend $20 million per mile in state funds to extend the border wall with Mexico, while 27% say it is wasteful, according to a new poll.

Tribune News Service

Abbott running comfortably ahead of O’Rourke in DMN-UT-Tyler poll; Paxton could face runoff

AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is running 11 percentage points ahead of Democrat Beto O’Rourke in this year’s race for Texas governor, according to a Dallas Morning News-University of Texas at Tyler poll released Sunday.

The Guardian - US

Trump tours the country in support of candidates pushing the ‘big lie’

As thousands turn out to hear the former president, midterm candidates vie for his backing by pushing ‘stolen’ election myth

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