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RGV forever ❤️
Veronica O'Caña — who is awaiting sentencing on bribery, witness tampering and money laundering charges — wants permission to attend Bobby Pulido's swearing-in ceremony #rgv
A new life is waiting for you in the Florida colonies, citizen
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Nearly every House Republican in Texas outran Paxton + Abbott. But here's a ranking of they did versus Dawn Buckingham, who performed best among Republican non-judicial statewides and had low name ID, making her akin to a generic R
Only 10 Rs outran Paxton, Abbott and Buckingham
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And in a different venue, the immigrant tuition law, a statute on the books for 20+ years that the Legislature declined many times to change. He conspired with the feds — the swamp! — to shoot it down.
Paxton famously did this with a much more substantive issue: he refused to defend the Texas Ethics Commission, which was seeking to hold his donors accountable, in court.
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Outgoing Rep. Chip Roy goes gloves-off re Ken Paxton
“I’m pissed off at a Republican establishment that embraced corrupt people at the top of the ticket too often. You can’t win an election and beat corruption when you put at the top of your ticket in Texas someone that we knew to have massive issues … we spent $500 million trying to chase winning that one race at the expense of all the others.”
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The seeds of the Texas GOP collapse were sprouting 2024 collapse, as I saw when I went to Beaumont to see then-Speaker @DadePhelan fighting for his political life v Paxton and Patrick
the internecine clash in America’s largest red state, an anchor of Republicanism, is both instructive and, eventually, could prove perilous to the GOP. It’s the end result of Texas’ decadeslong partisan realignment, the subsequent collapse of competitive general elections and, most significantly, an illustration of how the malignant tribalism shaping national politics is metastasizing to state capitals.
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“They got Hunter Biden doing these terrible things, well, why can’t our guy do terrible things,” Phelan continued, echoing some of Paxton’s voters. “He sues Biden, we like that, he’s our guy.”
Doing nothing to hide his frustration, the speaker said Republicans were tempting the same fate that befell Texas Democrats after their own internal wars.
“It certainly opens the door,” he said. “Why not? Voters are smart. They want results, and if we can’t produce results because we eat each other up, absolutely it’s going to be a problem.”
At some point, Phelan added, “There will be an opening.”
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New: Texas Supreme Court Justice Debra Lehrmann (R) won't rule out retiring before end of her term.
Her exit would give appointment to Gov Gina Hinojosa, flipping court majority to Dems.
“I have to make a decision by early summer,” she told me. #txlege
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wrote something on the Texas wave for the New York Review's symposium on the midterms nybooks.com/online/2026/11/1…
Many Texans would be better off with an income tax than high property taxes, but you have to know nothing about Texas politics to think Gina is the one who should put her body in the gears over this point
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Over at @DanPatrick's conservative think tank at UT-Austin, conservative legal scholar Josh Blackman is writing the obituary for "originalism."
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GOP former Sen @kseliger on the transition team for Democratic Lt Gov elect @VikkiGoodwinTX
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The continuum of liberal vs moderate Texas Democrats in the Old Days was way more nuanced than people remember. In 1991, Gov Ann Richards and Lt Gov Bob Bullock went to war over enacting a state income tax. Bullock wanted the tax and Richards emphatically opposed it.
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What a laughable, lazy take. Whether good policy or not, a state income tax is a complete non-starter. You would have to change the state constitution, which requires a two-thirds vote in each chamber of the Lege and voter approval. Ain’t gonna happen.
Very glad she won, but Gina Hinojosa maybe a rare example of a red state Dem who I think is genuinely much too conservative on the merits.
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Putting it out there because I know I have some followers in the Texas statehouse: if you're a Texas house rep or senate member interested in talking with @washingtonpost about your plans for the upcoming session, my contact is in my bio.