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FORT WORTH, Texas — Shouts erupted outside a Tarrant County courtroom Thursday as activists and community leaders decried that a former Fort Worth officer found guilty of manslaughter wouldn’t face a more serious conviction for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson in 2019.

Democrats were in the minority the entire time O’Rourke was in Congress. He says that experience working across the aisle prepares him to be governor of a red state.

FORT WORTH, Texas — As F-35 joint strike fighters move from station to station along Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth production line, screens display information that includes the jet’s overall sequence number, the military base where it’s headed and the country that ordered it.

The handful of Texas Democrats who have a penchant for defending the state’s oil and gas industry includes members of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee and representatives from some of the top oil producing, refining and transporting regions of the state.

The race between Representative Jasmine Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton has divided leaders of the North Texas Democratic establishment.

DALLAS — Texas state Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Tuesday was cruising to a first-place finish in the race to replace longtime U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, but the Democrat is likely to face a runoff against former congressional chief of staff Jane Hamilton.