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  Abortion Still Legal in Texas After Judge Slaps Paxton, Abbott

  March 31 at 4 a.m.

  Despite Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton's best efforts to make hay while the coronavirus spreads, abortion remains as legal in Texas as it was before the virus hit, following a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel. A little more than a week ago,...

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  Ticket Scalpers Are Pushing for a Bailout. They Should Try Justifying Their Existence First.

  March 30 at 4 a.m.

  Remember Matt Colvin? That guy from Tennessee who saw an increased demand for hand sanitizer, surgical masks and disinfectant wipes, and decided to stockpile them and flip them for a profit? Remember how he was initially without shame at having taken on such an endeavor, so much that he agreed...

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  John Cornyn Traipses Down an Old, Racist Path on Coronavirus

  March 19 at 4 a.m.

  Oooh boy. Texas Sen. John Cornyn has some thoughts on the novel coronavirus. Wednesday, the man who's running for reelection during a pandemic, the same one who tweeted out a picture of himself drinking a Corona at a bar over the weekend — he's so funny — decided to smear Chinese...

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  Coronavirus Leaves Texas Politics in Uncharted Waters

  March 18 at 4 a.m.

  On Tuesday, maybe for the last time in a long time, Americans voted. Florida, Arizona and Illinois residents cast their ballots as their state governments did the best they can to keep voters and poll workers safe. In Ohio, which also had a primary scheduled for Tuesday, Gov. Mike DeWine...

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  What’s Good for the Car Wash Is Good for South Dallas, and That’s Really Bad

  March 12 at 4 a.m.

  The wolf is at the door in South Dallas. The very near future could see massive dispossession and displacement there to dwarf the city’s long, ugly history elsewhere of dispossession and displacement. The elected leadership of South Dallas not only will fail to raise a hand to protect it. They...

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  The World May Be Going to Hell, but at Least Ted Cruz Is Back to Normal

  March 12 at 4 a.m.

  For a few moments Sunday evening and as this week got started, we actually felt a little bad for Ted Cruz. At the Conservative Political Action Conference a couple of weeks ago, Cruz shook hands with a man later diagnosed as having been infected with the coronavirus. Cruz did the...