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  Ted Cruz: From #NeverTrump to Begging for the President's Attention in 7 Steps

  August 20 at 4 a.m.

  Over the last couple of weeks, Sen. Ted Cruz has traveled Texas, coming home to answer the campaign challenge issued by Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic U.S. House member from El Paso facing the incumbent in November. Cruz hasn't, as O'Rourke has, visited each of Texas' 254 counties, but he's made...

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  Larry Casto Resigns as Dallas City Attorney

  August 16 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas City Attorney Larry Casto is resigning effective Aug. 31. Casto took over as city attorney from Warren Ernst in October 2016. During his time as Dallas' top lawyer, he helped dig the city out of two legal holes, working with the Texas Legislature on a compromise to keep the...

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  Recall Election For Plano City Council Member Canceled After Charter Snafu

  August 15 at 12:30 p.m.

  Plano City Council member Tom Harrison, facing a recall effort for sharing anti-Muslim messages on the internet, appears set to serve out his term after all. Late Tuesday, state District Judge Mark Rusch ruled that the petition filed to recall Harrison earlier this year was insufficient.

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  Dallas' Katrina Pierson Finds Herself in Eye of Omarosa Storm Over Trump and the 'N-Word'

  August 15 at 4 a.m.

  Longtime Dallas tea-partier and President Donald Trump supporter Katrina Pierson has found herself in the middle of this week's presidential mini-scandal, thanks to allegations made by former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault-Newman. According to Manigault-Newman, tapes exist of Trump using the racial slur "n——-." In a taped conversation provided by Manigault-Newman to CBS...

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  Trump Hosts Roundtable on Prison Reform. Ken Paxton, Naturally, Stars.

  August 10 at 4 a.m.

  For further proof that the underlying code of the simulation in which we all live is fraying, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, still under multiple felony indictments, hung out with the president of the United States in Bedminster, New Jersey, Thursday, ostensibly to discuss reform in America's prisons. In introducing...

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  Dwaine Caraway's Greatest Hits

  August 10 at 4 a.m.

  Despite the clear and convincing evidence, not to mention the guilty plea, showing that now-former Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway took about $450,000 in cash to push the City Council to pass Dallas County Schools' bus stop-arm ticketing scam scheme scam, the Observer is going to miss the guy. For...