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Texas has put in the 1836 project, creating nine member committee to promote patriotic education and history. want to limit the way that historical events are taught. they have to be taught in way that i guess makes hathography of texas history, not real history. are you allowed to discuss this book in state of texas? >> clearly i'm standing in texas, talking to you. we're hoping to do book events at private book stores, but i have questions how far this goes. am i banned from state universities? texas book festival is held on state property every year. i'm on the board of advisers, am i not a...

Prevent government from pressuring americans on the basis of their speech or intervening in the use of free speech so that seems like a pretty straightforward case. let's talk about the book itself. what is the premise of the book that is so terrifying to the old 1836 project folks? >> will we make the argument that the myths that we are taught to people my age and younger frankly in texas schools are hurtful to the growing probity of hispanics in texas. it paints a picture of freedom loving anglo's fighting against dark skinned people for liberty. it completely ignores the role that slavery p...

Intervening in the use of free speech. so, that seems like a pretty straightforward case. let's talk about your book itself. what is the premise of the book that is so terrifying to the old 1836 project folks? >> well, we make the argument that the myths that were taught to people my age and younger, frankly, in texas schools are hurtful to the growing flew ralty of hispanics in texas. it paints a picture of freedom loving angelos fighting against dark skin people. it eliminates slavery play in motivating the this because we point out the inconvenient fact that mexico is a multicultural societ...

Earth is now trapping an unprecedented amount of heat with one scientist saying the earth is warming faster than expected. america's infrastructure isn't set up for extreme weather. in february, problems with the texas power grid left millions freezing. now the texas grid operator is asking texans to conserve electricity. the governor signed two bills that he said would fix the flaws that led to february's catastrophe. experts say it didn't go far enough and don't acknowledge the reality of climate change. he met with a climate skeptic before the cold snap. he clearly has other priorities in m...

The texas constitution -- the constitution of the republic of texas explicitly talks about race, explicitly talks about people of african descent saying they can't be citizens, promoting slavery, you can't teach that topic. highway are you going to talk about 1836. if you give people the documents, you read it, the questions will arise naturally. we didn't-up admit talking about race. we talk about race a lot in the 18th and 19th century. they put it in laws, letters, policies, sirmans. >> the credit si was -- all their secession documents went there. taking everything that talks about race, p...