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Bud Kennedy: Texas most conservative 48 hours went Greg Abbotts way for 2022 (and 2024?) Fort Worth Star-Telegram 5/8/2021 Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram May 8—FORT WORTH — Call it the Greg Abbott Protection Session. With a governor up for re-election in 2022 and maybe considering a presidential run in 2024, Republican lawmakers are pushing potential opponents out of the way like Panhandle snowplows during the Big Freeze: — Gun-rights activists, the faction that h...

Texas Monthly; Getty The first official results of the 2020 census are in—and Texas has plenty to brag about. It grew more than any other state over the last decade, according to figures released by the Census Bureau on Monday. There are now 29,145,505 Texans, though as I type this another thousand migrants are surely packing up their belongings in Los Angeles, Lucknow, and Leon. That’s up from 25 million in April 2010, an increase  of 15.9 percent, or four million—more than the total po...

Fight to replace Ron Wright in Congress intensifies as frontrunners try to snag spot in runoff Fight to replace Ron Wright in Congress intensifies as frontrunners try to snag spot in runoff Susan Wright fires at GOP rival Jake Ellzey as her standing as the favorite to win is less certain. A vote here sign outside of Southlake Town Hall on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Southlake. (Juan Figueroa / The Dallas Morning News)(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) Susan Wright, who a month ago was the u...

By Reuters Staff 4 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The race to succeed the only sitting U.S. congressman to have died from COVID-19 has drawn a free-for-all of 23 candidates in a Republican-leaning district of north Texas, where Democrats have made gains in recent years. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. flag flies in front of the Capitol Dome at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Representative Ron Wright, a Republican, succumbed to COVID-19 in February. The Ma...

POLITICO How Trump upended the race to control the House through 2030 Both parties are working to make sense of Trump-era election results and how they could shape the next decade of congressional lines. Former President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention. | AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Link Copied Days after the 2020 election, House Democrats convened to address some of the party’s most surprising losses, and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Cheri Bustos name-check...

In what seems like a flashback to his 2018 Senate campaign or his run in 2019 for the Democratic presidential nomination, Beto O’Rourke is once again on the road -- this time with relief efforts for Texas devastated by the deadly winter storm.

Tweet Americans all over the country are watching the Conservative Political Action Conference either in person or online. People are tuning in to watch their favorite Republican leaders speak and get an idea of how the party will look post-Trump. But some of the folks seem to be interested in watching so they can find outrage porn to virtue signal over on social media. For these individuals, there is no one better than Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to provide enough fodder to fuel enough wailing and ...

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US Army Testing Next-Gen ‘Iron Man’ Firing Technology, Report Says Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202101211081840805-us-army-testing-next-gen-iron-man-firing-technology-report-says/ The know-how in question will enable the military to fire at targets more efficiently, as the technology is geared toward preventing unnecessary movements of a rifle barrel. The US Army is currently testing a piece of technology as part of its Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) effort, wh...

The one she filibustered, though different in respects. there has been criticism for the way the campaign handled the press. do you have it together down there in texas? is this campaign on the right path? >> oh, its definitely on the right path. wendys position on that issue and others hasnt changed. the truth of the matter is that wendy is going toe to toe with a very aggressive, divisive candidate in greg abbott. he has made a number of mistakes and i think shes in a position to overtake him ...