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  Democratic State Lawmakers Call for Removal of Capitol's Confederate Memorials

  July 22 at 4 a.m.

  Texas’ Capitol grounds could soon lose seven Confederate memorials if Democratic state lawmakers have their way. In a letter sent Monday to their Republican chairs, eight Democratic members of the state’s House and Senate administration committees called for the memorials’ removal. The letter comes after protests over the police killings...

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  Abbott to Texas: Wear a Mask Or Else

  June 22 at 3:32 p.m.

  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott really wants you to wear a mask. The governor isn't ordering Texans to do so, he said at a press conference Tuesday, he just thinks that they should. "COVID-19 is now spreading at an unacceptable rate in Texas and it must be corralled," Abbott said. "We...

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  Texas Democrats Ask for Mail-In Voting Help from the Supreme Court

  June 17 at 9:20 a.m.

  Your hopes for voting absentee in July 14's primary runoffs — assuming you aren't over the age of 65, physically unable to vote in person or planning to be out of the county in which you're registered throughout early voting and on Election Day — now rest with the United...

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  Abortion Rights Groups Sue Man Behind 'Sanctuary Cities' for Defamation

  June 15 at 4 a.m.

  A year ago last Thursday, the town of Waskom in deep East Texas declared itself a sanctuary city from abortion. The move was as notable for its novelty as its glaring unconstitutionality, but it started a movement. At the urging of East Texas Right to Life director and provocateur Mark...

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  5th Circuit Hands Texas AG Paxton Win On Mail-In Voting

  June 5 at 4 a.m.

  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Thursday afternoon, effectively eliminating the possibility that Texas would expand access to mail-in voting prior to the state's primary runoffs on July 14. The court's ruling leaves Texas' mail-in voting as is for the duration of...

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  7 Times Texas Twitter Could've Used a Fact Check

  June 1 at 4 a.m.

  Last week, Twitter attached a link to one of President Donald Trump's tweets, asserting that the president's claims about voter fraud and mail-in voting weren't true. The social media platform decision incensed Trump and many Republicans, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Attorney General Ken Paxton. The president even issued...