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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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  Ken Paxton Pressures Fort Worth ISD on Sexuality and Gender

  July 3 at 4 a.m.

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding Fort Worth ISD show him a sixth-grade sexuality and gender curriculum that has been taught for about five years now. In a letter to the school district, the sixth-largest in the state, Paxton said the district had told some parents that their kids could...

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  Standing with Muslims in Dealey Plaza

  June 27 at 12:36 a.m.

  As a response to the recent Supreme Court ruling to hold up President Trumps ban on travel from majority Muslim countries to the U.S., Dallasites gathered in support of Muslims at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas on Wednesday night. Photos by Brian Maschino

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  First Baptist Billboards to Multiply Like Loaves and Fishes

  June 20 at 4 a.m.

  Score this round for First Baptist Dallas. Big. Less than a week after seeing two billboards celebrating the title of pastor Robert Jeffress' "Freedom Sunday" sermon — "America Is a Christian Nation" — taken down by New York City-based Outfront Media, the church is putting up 10 times as many...

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  First Baptist's Robert Jeffress Blames Rawlings, DMN for Billboard Removal

  June 19 at 4 a.m.

  Late last week, Outfront Media took down a couple of billboards it owns in Dallas. Normally that wouldn't be news, but the ads on these billboards belonged to First Baptist Church of Dallas and depict its pastor, Robert Jeffress,  so a storm began brewing immediately. That storm struck in earnest...

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  Bonus Jeffress: The Pastor Talks to the Observer About Trump's Child-Separation Policy

  June 19 at 4 a.m.

  The Observer had a chance Monday to talk with Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas, about a recent decision by Outfront Media to take down a couple of billboards promoting his upcoming "America Is a Christian Nation" sermon. At the end of our interview with Jeffress, we asked him about...