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Texas Take: The Podcast

Listen: Harvey relief vs. DACA, as sparks fly over toll roads

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, pauses to listen to a reporter's question as he enters his office on Capitol Hill, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

After a three-day shutdown of the federal government, Congress is back at work trying to resolve the issue that triggered it: What to do with the Dreamers , the undocumented immigrants that were brought ...

Texas Take: The Podcast

Listen: Tax talk stirs the election debate, cuts and no new hikes

Governor Greg Abbott, center, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, left, and state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, right, are seen during a press conference about a new property tax proposal, at the Westin Galleria hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, in Houston.

Just hours after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott rolled out his plan to put the brakes on skyrocketing property taxes in Texas, Republicans were cheering and Democrats and a variety of other groups were taking ...

Listen: President Trump uses another expletive, but Dan...

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump turns to talk to the gathered media during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump has stormed into 2018 in an exceptionally aggressive mood, picking fresh fights with Pakistan and the Palestinians, and touting the size of his "nuclear button" in a threat to North Korea. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

As the elbowing among dozens of little-known Texas candidates in both parties intensifies as they scramble to get attention just eight weeks before the election, President Trump is again stealing the ...

Listen: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz touts tax cuts and throws shade on...

Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, rides an escalator in the basement of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. Congressional Republicans kicked off the final leg of their six-week legislative sprint to overhaul the U.S. tax code and deliver a major policy victory for President Donald Trump before years end. The House is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the tax bill and Senate leaders intend to bring the measure up as soon as they get it. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

As U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz touts the Republican-pushed tax cuts recently approved in Washington, he predicts that Texans will see more in their paychecks by next month. A prophecy, he calls it, that will refute ...

Listen: Tax cuts, cuts, cuts signed into law as Washington...

President Donald Trump with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) during an event marking the passage of the Republican tax bill at the White House in Washington, Dec. 20, 2017. The House, forced to vote a second time on the $1.5 trillion tax bill, moved swiftly to pass the final version on Wednesday, clearing the way for President Trump to sign into law the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Tax cuts, cuts, cuts, as President Trump loves to say, were approved by Congress to great Republican jubilation, and predictions by Democrats that the bill could be a GOP Waterloo. Hmmm. The two parties ...

Listen: 'F-tards,' jail bait and 'cowardly RINOs'

Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs and the current commissioner, Sid Miller, are seen as "polar opposites" by political observers.

Sex continues to dominate politics in Texas and Washington. U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi becomes the latest casualty of the sex-harassment scandal in Washington, even as new allegations ...

Texas Take: The Podcast

Listen: 'F-tards,' jail bait and 'cowardly RINOs'

Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs and the current commissioner, Sid Miller, are seen as "polar opposites" by political observers.

Sex continues to dominate politics in Texas and Washington. U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi becomes the latest casualty of the sex-harassment scandal in Washington, even as new allegations ...

Listen: Candidates line up in droves to run for office

These Democrats may be running for governor.

Texas Democrats have eight -- count 'em, eight -- candidates running for governor in the spring 2018 primary. Eleven candidates, seven Republicans and four Democrats, have signed on to replace Ted Poe in ...

Listen: Roy Moore, communist Democrats and the alt-left press

Beverly Young Nelson, the latest accuser of Alabama Republican Roy Moore, shows her high school yearbook signed by Moore at a news conference Monday in New York. Nelson says Moore assaulted her when she was 16. Moore says the latest allegations against him are part of a "witch hunt."

In Texas and Washington, politics seems to be getting uglier and uglier. Take, for instance, the U.S. Senate campaign of Alabama justice and conservative icon Roy Moore, who has been accused of groping ...

Listen: Tragic church shooting renews gun-control debate

If found guilty in criminal court, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could face 99 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.

The tragic church shooting in South Texas instantly revived debate over gun control in Texas. One question is whether a key to preventing future tragedies might be for more Texans to carry handguns -- on ...

Listen: Is Congress gonna cut taxes, or what in Washington?

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, whose panel is charged with writing tax law, says his committee will introduce a tax-cut bill on Nov. 1.

Politicians in Washington are arguing over how to cut taxes, and Texans are suggesting they should quit all the talking and just get it done. Let's not make this another drawn-out debate by Republicans ...

PODCAST: TEXAS TAKE

Texas Take: The Podcast

Listen: Harvey relief vs. DACA, as sparks fly over toll roads

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, pauses to listen to a reporter's question as he enters his office on Capitol Hill, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

After a three-day shutdown of the federal government, Congress is back at work trying to resolve the issue that triggered it: What to do with the Dreamers , the undocumented immigrants that were brought ...

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Bobby Cervantes

Concerns continue over possible boycotts over sanctuary cities...

AUSTIN - With the highly anticipated court fights over Texas' sanctuary cities ban officially underway - and decisions not expected for months - concerns continue over the potential for major national boycotts of the state. To date, fallout directly related to the law, Senate Bill 4, has come ...

Brian M. Rosenthal

Deadly chaos as car hits crowd after rally by white nationalists

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The city of Charlottesville was engulfed by violence Saturday as white nationalists and counterprotesters clashed in one of the bloodiest fights to date over the removal of Confederate monuments across the South. White nationalists had long planned a demonstration over ...

Mike Ward

Gov. Abbott pledges to keep Texas a pro-life state at rally

AUSTIN - Facing thousands of anti-abortion supporters in front of the State Capitol, Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday spoke about how, 21 years ago, he held a tiny baby in his arms and marveled at the new life. "The mother decided against a abortion, giving the baby a chance at life," Abbott told ...

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