Advocates face steep odds getting a new ban through Congress. If they can succeed, they hope to avoid a repeat of past mistakes that left the original law open to loopholes.
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Our continuing cover on How the Texas legislature is working to make voting more difficult in Texas. We hear from Beto O'Rourke and Chris Davis, elections administrator for Willison County and the legislative chair for the Texas Association of Elections Administrators. -
Bexar County Precinct One Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores, who has volunteered at the Freeman Emergency Intake Site, toured the facility with Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday after he raised concerns about the safety of migrant children sheltered there. TPR News’s Maria Mendez spoke with her on Thursday about the tour.
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Advocates are calling on corporations to stop political donations to lawmakers who support the measures. Republicans say corporations that do are meddling.
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Bexar County Commissioners on Tuesday approved funding to continue COVID-19 testing at businesses and schools and to hire an outside consulting firm to help manage incoming stimulus dollars.
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With two months left in the legislative session, Texas state policymakers are split on two key issues related to the deadly power outages in February: electricity repricing and natural gas reforms.
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Texans accounted for roughly one out of every 10 people arrested for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Abbott cited protecting personal freedoms in his executive order signed Tuesday.
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Two of Sery Kim's biggest backers — the first Korean American Republicans to serve in Congress — withdrew their endorsements Friday after she said she doesn't want Chinese immigrants to come to America.
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Texas Republican governor cited Major League Baseball's decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta over the passage of Georgia's Election Integrity Act, saying MLB has adopted "a false narrative about the election law reforms in Georgia."
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Lawmakers and friends are mourning U.S. Capitol Police Officer William "Billy" Evans, who was killed in Friday's attack at a Capitol checkpoint that left another officer injured and the suspect dead.
