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The famous, the infamous and the unsung parade through a new history of Texas politics Jan. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of8 Gov. Edmund J. Davis, l, a Lincoln Republican, handed the keys to the governors office to his successor, former Confederate officer Richard Coke, without incident. A potential shooting war at the Capitol was averted.Courtesy / Kate HolleyShow MoreShow Less 2of8 Edmund J. Davis died in Austin at age 55. His brother erected a 31-foot-tall monument in his honor. It’s the...

Margaret Halletts little town is hanging in there during hard times FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Mieko Mahi’s Hallet Oak Gallery occupies a building on Hallettsville’s courthouse square that was designed by renowned Texas architect J. Riley Gordon.Joe Holley / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Mieko Mahi, owner of an art gallery on Hallettsville?’s courthouse square, moved to Hallettsville from Houston 13 years ago.Joe Holley / ContributorShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 The Hallet Oak, thought...

Really prepare. use the time available to you. >> the only glimmer of hope this it is going to impact florida, week was meeting with a leader georgia and the carolinas. who has been meeting throughout now is the time to make those this week with white house preparations and be aware of staff, top people, hes talked those changing conditions in the to the president several times. track of the storm. >> a lot of people will see maybe there is some give because of the politics and the these graphic...

Order? >> i think it is very cute that he automatically thinks he has more guns than me. native texan here but second of all of course kamala harris is wanting to push this because this is something on her agenda. most people know that in 2019 up to 22% of gun owners are women and even more so than that, the fastest growing group of the gunowners are women. we are saying we want to protect our second amendment rights. im a black woman thing we want to protect the second amendment rights. whole c...

Dreamers. we are going back to that dreamers for the wall idea a year ago. >> it is a good deal, the american people agree it is a good deal. the president offered it up sometime ago. the only thing im hearing from the democratic side is border security, just not actual border security. im a native texan. i live in the swamp but im not from the swamp so i know about the story of the wall in el paso. we built 131 miles of wall 2006-2010 in el paso. this is a see that borders a war zone. when you ...

President. maybe thats a good reason to run. >> dont run if you dont want to win. because what happens if you do? im convinced that bernie didnt necessarily run to win until all of a sudden he could and he wasnt ready to run to win. the team was, but he wasnt. >> do i think he wins? probably no. but if its him and the fires there, go for it. >> if he doesnt run? what is his next move? >> the folks who have said he should run in 2020 against john cornyn arent looking at how unpopular ted cruz is ...

Around betto, there is a lot of money around beto now, too but if you talk to people in texas, one of the things someone said to me when i was down in texas a couple of weekends ago -- >> as a native texen. >> as a native texan, was that some of betos play and some of what the democratic party wanted there was something to start to get to a good place, by 2024. by 2028. and the thing is, there is a lot of energy and everybody makes the obama pairsons, and we understand that. but when you talk to...

Its going to get worse and worse. people dont understand were just tearing apart this country. its not going to get any better. >> neil: you think your colleagues might have seized on this and used it as an excuse to not fix the immigration problem and overly play this? >> the problem on the democratic side -- im not sure if theres any participation in any of these discussions, has been the $30 billion wall. >> neil: thats the resistance, right? you guys cannot sign up for that, right? >> as a n...

Mean, this is getting kind of funny. not getting, it is funny, and im a native texan here. but i guess what we saw is he was going to get out and michele bachmann decided to get back in and he and his campaign said, wait a minute, those are constituents we can court, so lets get back in and take her voters. its so good for romney, we should wonder if somebody in the romney campaign or somebody close to romney said, hey, rick, you know, itd be really nice if you stuck around. romney needs a fract...

were bringing you the news from "a" to "z." its 5:00 a.m. in the east. six police officers were shot overnight while serving a search warrant in utah. that was drug-related. they are recovering in the hospital this morning. apparently, only one suspect there. >> also in the hospital, right? >> yes, also in the hospital. >> well continue to watch that. also, guess what? some huge announcements coming. pictures like this may not be as voluminous if the government gets its way. presid...