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Republicans like Paxton have been accusing tech companies of unfairly muzzling right-wing voices on their platforms for months now, and Trump’s Twitter ban following the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on January 6 sent them into even bigger bouts of indignation. A few days after Paxton spoke at the pro-Trump rally in D.C. that preceded the riot, he launched an investigation into Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google, demanding those companies turn over documents about content moderation citing alleged censorship of conservative views. “First Amendment rights and transparency must be maint...

“From leaving Texans to literally freeze to death to letting a deadly virus have an open season on our residents, Governor Abbott has proven many times over that he neither understands the struggles of everyday Texans, nor does he care about doing his basic duty to protect them,” Hinojosa wrote. “This will kill Texans,” he said. Hinojosa’s Democratic ally Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo also pointed to last month’s winter storm in her response to Tuesday’s news, and warned that Abbott may be trying to distract Texans from our state government’s failures during that disaster. ...

“Hospitalizations are the lowest that they have been in four months. The number of active COVID cases is the lowest since November, and is less than half of what it was just a month ago,” Abbott said. “That means that far more Texans are recovering from COVID than contracticing it,” he continued, before bragging that the state’s coronavirus test positivity rate has finally fallen to under nine percent for the first time in months. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo tore into Abbott's decision to roll back coronavirus restrictions now. “Taking away critical public health intervention...

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner sounded equal parts furious and bewildered on Tuesday when he laid into Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to rescind the statewide mask mandate and to reopen Texas businesses to 100 percent capacity starting next Wednesday.

Houston area residents sure seem as eager as ever to grab the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines available after last week’s winter storm delayed inoculations across the region. The first full day of vaccinations on Wednesday at NRG Stadium's new clinic, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saw long...