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Bud Kennedy: Texas' 'most conservative 48 hours' went Greg Abbott's 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 has barked loudest at the governor the past two years? They'll get to carry a handgun without a l...

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 population of Oklahoma (which once again makes one wonder why UT has lost two-thirds of its football g...

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 undisputed favorite to replace her late husband in Congress, is now in a tough fight to make one of t...

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 May 1 special election to replace him will be the first test of the Texas electorate, where Democrats ...

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-checked one in particular: Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a freshman from South Florida. Party data missed ...