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AUDIO Flashback: Dan Patrick vs Ted Cruz
Lt. Gov Dan Patrick and Sen. Ted Cruz listen as Attorney General Ken Paxton is sworn in. As mentioned on the West Texas Drive this afternoon, here is the audio of then-Sen. Dan Patrick and Sen. Ted...
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Tea Party Senator Calls for Unilateral Disarmament in Competition for Business
Sen. Konni Burton, R-Colleyville Much of the chatter in the business lobby over the past few days suggests that Facebook executives were not happy at all with Tea Party Sen. Konni Burton’s argument...
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Trump intensifies proxy war between Cruz and Perry
Donald Trump in Laredo, Texas wearing a hat that very well may have been made in Mexico, our state’s largest trading partner. Following Donald Trump’s visit to the Texas-Mexico border and after his...
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NBC 5 in DFW reports Texas AG Ken Paxton has been indicted
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton From the report by NBC 5 in DFW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been indicted on three charges by a grand jury in Collin County, two people close to the case...
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One Would Think the Tea Party Would be Outraged by What the Texas AG is Said...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton The three-count felony indictment handed up by a grand jury in very-Republican Collin County against Attorney General Ken Paxton has sparked some wild conspiracy...
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Following rape comments, Stickland and key allies are sharply attacked for votes
Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford Following revelations that Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, said publicly in 2008 that “Rape is non existent in marriage,” some of the votes that he and his...
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A Welcome Home for Ted Cruz in the Party of John Cornyn
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Ted Cruz Two years ago in a packed hotel ballroom in Houston during the Harris County Republican Party’s Reagan Day fundraising dinner, Sen. John Cornyn stood on the stage and made the...
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Straus retirement may set the stage for a responsible redistricting cycle
Speaker Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, both Republicans. During the 2007 session of the Legislature, Rep. Byron Cook took to the front mic of the Texas House to rally the troops against...
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Abbott strategy against Texas House Republicans is ready, fire, aim
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Note: This analysis originally appeared in The Quorum Report in August. It seems approproriate to revisit it now that Abbott is inserting himself into House GOP primaries....
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Maybe the GOP Civil War in Texas Really is Over
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, R-Texas, addresses the state GOP convention in San Antonio. Perhaps every column should now start like this: Before you’re done reading, the president may tweet something that...
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