The Latest Breaking News from Greg Abbott

Blockade at Mexican border risks $35 billion in shipments

Mexican truckers blockaded a key Texas border crossing for a second day to protest Governor Greg Abbott’s stepped-up vehicle inspections, raising the specter of delivery disruptions for everything from avocados to auto parts.

Tribune News Service · Apr 12, 2022

Annual Inflation Hits 8.5 Percent, Highest Rate Since 1981

Plus: China's unsustainable COVID lockdowns, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's performative anti-immigration antics snarl supply chains, and more...

Reason · Apr 12, 2022

Child welfare workers protest bigotry

Agency "losing so many tenured staff and wisdom because this job is just not manageable anymore," a supervisor said

Salon · Apr 12, 2022

Nun who wrote ‘Dead Man Walking’ joins calls to save Melissa Lucio from execution

Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed on 27 April over the death of her two-year-old daughter which her attorneys insist was ‘a tragedy, not a murder’

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2022

Beto O’Rourke touts education, jobs and health care in run for Texas governor

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — With the uproar over last year’s winter storm in a holding pattern, Democratic nominee for governor Beto O’Rourke is trying to sell Texas voters on bread-and-butter issues that he hopes will compel them to fire incumbent Greg Abbott.

Tribune News Service · Apr 10, 2022

Melissa Lucio ‘a symbol of wrongful convictions,’ documentary director says as execution approaches

Director Sabrina Van Tassel tells Josh Marcus about award-winning Melissa Lucio documentary and impact of Kim Kardashian’s activism on case

The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022

Los Angeles County bans official travel to Florida and Texas over anti-LGBT+ policies

‘This order is discriminatory, harmful and just plain cruel,’ wrote the authors of the Los Angeles County motion in response to the Texas order

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022

Greg Abbott Has Used Migrants as Political Pawns Again and Again. Now, He Says He'll Bus Them to Capitol Hill.

Given his track record, it isn’t surprising that Abbott would opt for a blusterous anti-migrant spectacle that comes at the expense of Texas taxpayers.

Reason · Apr 7, 2022

Texas lawmakers visit woman on death row with hugs, prayers

Seven Texas lawmakers who traveled hundreds of miles to update death row inmate Melissa Lucio on their efforts to stop her execution were able to connect with her through embrace and prayer

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2022

Abbott's border stunt blows up

Rep. Dan Crenshaw went a step further, suggesting that migrants be sent to Kamala Harris' house

Salon · Apr 7, 2022