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Texas governor gets more deeply involved in state House race in Houston
Governor places TV ad for Dokupil
Texas governor gets more deeply involved in state House race in Houston
Governor places TV ad for Dokupil
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott waded deeper into a testy Houston state House race Thursday by running a TV ad in support for the challenger who hopes to oust Republican Rep. Sarah Davis in the March election. ...
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Listen: Harvey relief vs. DACA, as sparks fly over toll roads
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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Listen: Tax talk stirs the election debate, cuts and no new hikes
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...
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...
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...
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'
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 ...
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Listen: 'F-tards,' jail bait and 'cowardly RINOs'
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
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
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
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?
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 ...
Texas Take: The Podcast
Listen: Harvey relief vs. DACA, as sparks fly over toll roads
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...




