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Cat Parks, Republican Party of Texas vice chair, stood for the Pledge of Allegiance last month before speaking to The Woodlands Republican Women’s Club. Credit: Mark Felix for The Texas Tribune Four years ago, the chair of the Republican Party in Hamilton County, a rural county about an hour west of Waco, was getting ready to retire. Around that time, Cat Parks’ husband was sitting on the porch of his ranch one evening, drinking whiskey with a neighbor, when the neighbor asked if he knew anyone up for the job. “If you could get Cat to do it, she’s the one,” he r...

AUSTIN — As a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory on Wednesday, Texas GOP leaders denounced the use of violence, even after some spent weeks trying to avoid offending diehard supporters of President Donald Trump. Around 3 p.m. CST, after about two hours of chaos in the nation’s capital, Gov. Greg Abbott spoke out, calling for the agitators in Washington to stop violence and obey orders from U.S. Capitol police. “Peaceful protest is a core tenet of the U.S. Constitution,” Abbott said i...