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T-Squared: Happy birthday to us! (And many more.)
BY EVAN SMITH at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 3, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. As of today, The Texas Tribune has been in business for 12 years. No one’s more surprised to be saying those words than I am. Knowing how
Abortion providers and gun rights advocates are “strange bedfellows” in fight to strike down Texas’ new abortion law
BY REESE OXNER AND JAMES BARRAGÁN at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 2, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Abortion-rights advocates have found an unexpected ally in their fight to overturn Texas’ controversial abortion law: gun rights advocates, fearful that the same novel mechanism employed
Texas’ abortion restriction law cut procedures by half in September, study finds
BY NEELAM BOHRA at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 2, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The number of abortions performed in Texas plummeted by half in September, which is the month the state’s new abortion law restricting the procedure went into effect,
Republican John Lujan wins special election runoff to flip Texas House seat in San Antonio
BY PATRICK SVITEK at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 2, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. SAN ANTONIO — Republican John Lujan has won the special election runoff for Texas House District 118, flipping the Democratic-friendly seat in San Antonio. The victory by
Democratic state Reps. Claudia Ordaz Perez and Art Fierro will vie for the same El Paso House seat due to redistricting
BY PATRICK SVITEK at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. State Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez announced Monday she is challenging a fellow El Paso Democrat, Art Fierro, instead of running for reelection against Rep. Lina Ortega, another
“A pivotal day”: Texas abortion law’s Supreme Court hearings spur hope for some, fear for others
BY ABBY LIVINGSTON AND BETHANY IRVINE at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. WASHINGTON — The dividing line in front of the U.S. Supreme Court was both invisible and unmissable. It extended
Gov. Greg Abbott chastises school board group with vague accusation of “pornographic images” in library books
BY CASSANDRA POLLOCK at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Association of School Boards on Monday to determine the extent to which “pornography or other inappropriate content” exists in public schools
Former ACLU lawyer Rochelle Garza decides to run for attorney general after redistricting upends congressional campaign
BY PATRICK SVITEK NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Democrat Rochelle Garza, a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union from the Rio Grande Valley, is running for attorney general after redistricting complicated her campaign to succeed retiring U.S.
With a congressional seat suddenly open, Democrats in the Rio Grande Valley race to recruit for a competitive district
BY PATRICK SVITEK at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Democrats in the Rio Grande Valley are scrambling to make up for lost time after U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, decided to seek reelection in a different
Special election runoff on Tuesday for Texas House seat in San Antonio carries high stakes for both parties
BY PATRICK SVITEK at The Texas Tribune, OCT. 30, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The special election runoff Tuesday for a state House seat in San Antonio carries high stakes, with Republicans working hard to flip it as part of their
911 transcripts filed in updated “Trump Train” lawsuit reveal San Marcos police refused to send escort to Biden bus
BY KATE MCGEE at The Texas Tribune, OCT. 29, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. As supporters of then-President Donald Trump surrounded and harassed a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Central Texas highway last year, San Marcos police officials and 911
Texas sues the Biden administration over federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates
BY JAMES POLLARD at The Texas Tribune, OCT. 29, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Attorney General Ken Paxton, on behalf of the state, sued the Biden administration on Friday over its coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The federal requirement, which
