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As of Friday evening, 51 people filed to finish out Don Young’s term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Some may have decided to drop out and they have until noon today to withdraw or their names will be on the special primary ballot. The election will be historic for several reasons.
Dave Creaney/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican, says he will introduce the bill for a referendum as early as this week on whether Texas should assert its independence from the United States. The notion, which has been batted around Texas for generations, looms much larger now in the wake of the violence in the U.S. capital. While baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election have sowed discord in the country, advocates of a "Texit" insist the effort is not about Trump. "It's being dismissed as a fringe phenomena, until the...