By Jack Phillips Two Republicans will advance to a runoff as the top two vote-getters in the race for Texas’s 6th Congressional District, after no one in the 23-candidate field won an outright majority of votes on May 1. Republicans Susan Wright, wife of the late Rep. Ron Wright, finished with 19 percent of the vote, while Jake Ellzey […]
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Texas Lawmaker Urges Homeland Security to End Biden’s ‘Catch and Release’ Policy
By Isabel Van Brugen Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) on Tuesday called on Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to abolish the Biden administration’s “catch and release” immigration policy, saying that it threatens local communities. The Republican lawmaker sent Mayorkas a letter after the Department of Homeland Security ordered the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department to release […]
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Texas Sues Biden Administration for Allegedly Disregarding COVID-19 Rules at Border
By Zachary Stieber The attorney general of Texas on Thursday sued President Joe Biden’s administration for allegedly flouting its own COVID-19 rules in handling the surge of illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico. Administration officials “have abandoned the preexisting protections against the introduction into Texas and the United States of aliens infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus during a pandemic,” the […]
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Texas, Missouri Sue Biden Administration for Suspending Trump-Era ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
By Li Hai The attorneys general from Texas and Missouri filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Tuesday, seeking to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy to curb the surge of illegal immigrants at the border. “President Joe Biden could immediately remedy the influx of crime pouring across our border by reinstating the Migrant Protection […]
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Election Fraud Prosecution at an ‘All-Time High’: Texas Attorney General’s Office
By Jack Phillips An official in Texas’ Attorney General’s office testified during a state House hearing that the number of election fraud cases in Texas is at an “all-time high.” The amount is “higher than our historical average by a long shot,” said Jonathan White, the head of the election fraud agency within the Texas Attorney General’s Special […]
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Texas No Longer Observing CDC Eviction Moratorium
By Matthew Vadum The Texas Supreme Court has directed courts in the state to stop honoring the federal moratorium on residential evictions that a federal judge in the state already struck down in late February as unconstitutional. The Texas Supreme Court’s 34th emergency order that applied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) moratorium on evictions […]
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Texas Senate Passes Bill That Would Block Social Media Companies From Banning Users for Their Political Views
By Samuel Allegri The Texas Senate passed a bill that forbids social media companies that have at least 100 million users per month to block, ban, demonetize, or discriminate against any of their users due to their political views. Senate Bill 12, which is sponsored by Republican state Sen. Bryan Hughes, passed on Thursday and would apply […]
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Texas Governor Ends Statewide Mask Mandate, Allows All Businesses to Fully Reopen
By Zachary Stieber The governor of Texas on Tuesday ended his statewide mask mandate while allowing all businesses in the state to fully reopen. “With the medical advancements of vaccines and antibody therapeutic drugs, Texas now has the tools to protect Texans from the virus. We must now do more to restore livelihoods and normalcy for Texans by opening […]
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Texas Blocks Utilities from Billing Customers or Disconnecting for Non-Payment After Sticker Shock Outrage
By Tom Ozimek Outcry over skyrocketing energy bills following the severe cold snap that threw millions of Texans into the dark and with no safe drinking water, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday the state’s utility regulators will temporarily ban power companies from billing customers or disconnecting them for non-payment. “Texans who have suffered through days of […]
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Texas Independence Movement Gains Momentum
By Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Phillipp Proponents of Texas independence anticipate winning the referendum in which Texans will decide whether a process to determine the best way to withdraw from the union should be started, Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, told The Epoch Times. If radicals that are currently in Congress are put in […]
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Texas Official Announces Legislation to ‘Protect’ National Anthem in Wake of NBA Controversy
By Zachary Stieber A top Texas official on Wednesday said he would push for state legislators to pass a bill that would require events receiving public funding to play the national anthem. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican who also serves as president of the state Senate, announced the effort after one of the state’s professional basketball […]
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Texas Working on Bill to Prevent Big Tech Censorship, Following Florida’s Footsteps
By Janita Kan Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Sunday that he was working on a bill with legislators in his state to prevent big tech companies taking action to moderate user content based on their political viewpoint. “We are working with Sen. [Bryan] Hughes on legislation to prevent social media providers like Facebook & Twitter from cancelling conservative speech,” […]
