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Today’s Republican Party has abandoned its roots

The party first turned its back on its values in 1876 by agreeing to dismantle Reconstruction. Ever since, power rather than principle has been its driving motive.

Chicago Sun-Times

Texas teachers grapple with their raises caught up in voucher fight

As a special session starts with a focus on “school choice” but no mention of public school funding, some teachers said they are even considering leaving the profession.

The Texas Tribune

Primary threats loom over House Republicans as lawmakers again consider school vouchers

Gov. Greg Abbott promised that if House Republicans block school choice again, he’d go after them in the primaries

The Texas Tribune

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Controversial issues to come up in Texas special legislative session

School vouchers and border security are the focus of a special legislative session beginning this week in the Texas Statehouse. Both are key issues for the state's Republican governor.

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Influential Texas activist Jonathan Stickland hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes at office near Fort Worth

The Texas Tribune also observed Texas GOP chair Matt Rinaldi outside the building, but he denied meeting Fuentes and denounced him.

The Texas Tribune

Abbott Demands Vouchers—Or Else

The governor and the billionaires behind him are determined to defund public schools.

Texas Observer

Vouchers return this special session — and school funding might be left out. Here’s what you need to know.

Gov. Greg Abbott called lawmakers back to Austin to try again to pass education savings accounts, which would let families use state funds to pay for their children’s private schooling. Teacher pay was not part of his agenda.

The Texas Tribune

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Texas will have an $18.6 billion surplus and avoid a recession, comptroller projects

The updated comptroller’s report raises the amount of revenue available to the state over the 2024-25 cycle to $194.6 billion.

The Texas Tribune

City seeks donations — and ideas — to provide for migrants as temperatures drop

Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, asked residents to step up on both fronts as cooler weather hits Chicago and the influx of asylum-seekers continues.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden administration presses forward with border wall plans in Texas, angering allies

Even as the president says the barriers don’t work, his administration says it will waive environmental laws to build them quickly.

The Texas Tribune

Education savings accounts and illegal immigration will be part of third special legislative session’s focus

Gov. Greg Abbott announced the items lawmakers can consider when they return Monday. His agenda also includes COVID vaccine mandates and the Colony Ridge development outside Houston.

The Texas Tribune

A Texas neighborhood became a target of the right over immigration. Locals are pushing back

A booming Texas residential development is pushing back after being put into an unwelcome national spotlight over immigration

The Independent UK

Colony Ridge developer defends Houston-area community as state leaders vow action against it

GOP leaders claim the development markets to undocumented people and is plagued by crime. One of its owners refutes the allegations and says he’s ready to show lawmakers that Colony Ridge isn’t different than any other rural Texas community.

The Texas Tribune

Defenders of the Florida and Texas Social Media Laws Contradict Themselves

If Facebook et al. are pushing a "radical leftist narrative," why don’t they have a constitutional right to do that?

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Advocates Request Clemency for Jewish Man on Death Row

Advocates argue that a difficult childhood and religious devotion should lead to a commutation or delay of execution.

The Texas Tribune

Residents in one of Texas’ most populous cities are working to decriminalize marijuana

Home to more than 260,000 people, the West Texas town of Lubbock is no stranger to passing local laws by petition. In 2021, residents overwhelmingly approved a local ban on abortion.

The Texas Tribune

Legislative marathon delays criminal trial for North Texas House member charged with felony

Rep. Frederick Frazier was indicted over a year ago on two charges of impersonating a public servant. But the case has not gone to trial yet, partly because Frazier has been able to delay the case until the Legislature concludes its work.

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott says special lawmaking session will begin on Oct. 9, likely on school vouchers

The session comes as a rift between the Texas House and the Senate grew following Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial, raising questions about the chambers’ ability to compromise on education issues. The governor has threatened to call for more special sessions if lawmakers fail to pass a “school choice”…

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Gov. Greg Abbott orders special lawmaking session to begin on Oct. 9, likely on school vouchers

greg-abbott-texas-legislature-school-choice-vouchers This third special session comes as a rift between the Texas House and the Senate grew following Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial, raising questions about the chambers’ ability to compromise on education issues.

The Texas Tribune

Houston-area development has become a right-wing lightning rod on immigration

After conservative media portrayed the Colony Ridge development north of Houston as a haven for illegal immigrants, Gov. Greg Abbott said the upcoming special legislative session will look into the issue.

The Texas Tribune

‘An understaffed and broken system’: 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid as others struggle to access SNAP benefits

Texas Democrats in Congress are urging the federal government to audit the state’s Medicaid eligibility system

The Independent UK

After sending busloads of migrants to NYC, Texas governor visits city to fault Biden for crisis

For more than a year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants from the southern U.S. border to places like New York, Washington and Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times

Ald. Beale takes a page from Texas Gov. Abbott’s playbook on migrant emergency

Ald. Anthony Beale wants voters to consider undoing the city’s Welcoming City ordinance, a move that panders to Gov. Greg Abbott and the anti-immigrant crowd.

The Texas Tribune

Dallas selected as one of three national hubs for new medical innovation federal agency

The city joins Cambridge, Mass. and the Washington, D.C. area as epicenters of the new agency. A Biden administration initiative, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will work toward medical breakthroughs in treating diseases like cancer, Alzheimer and diabetes.

Al Jazeera

Texas cities struggle to address influx of arrivals along US-Mexico border

The administration of US President Joe Biden has reached out to Mexico for help confronting the spike in migration.

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