Jones Projected Winner In Dem. Primary for Special State House Election

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Unofficial special election results project Jolanda Jones as the winner of the State House Rep. 147th seat.

Jones is ahead of Danielle Keys Bess by about 200 votes. Both candidates are vying for the November Democratic nomination spot in the ethnically diverse district.

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Deceased Candidate Wins Mayoral Election

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Despite having died nearly a month earlier, Ramiro Rodriguez Jr. was reelected mayor of Palmhurst, Texas over the weekend.

The incumbent candidate defeated his opponent Israel Silva in the South Valley town of 2,600 people after receiving 329 votes to his challenger's 234 Saturday. Rodriguez has held the position for 23 years until his death on April 5 at the age of 68. 

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Texas Supreme Court Allows Trans Child Abuse Investigations To Resume

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The Texas Supreme Court has allowed the state to resume investigations into parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in favor of one family that was among the first contacted by child welfare officials following an order by Gov. Greg Abbott.

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Dads File Federal Lawsuit Against Round Rock School District For Violating Free Speech Rights

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Two Texas fathers who were arrested for allegedly disturbing meetings of the Round Rock Independent School District school board have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the district and its agents violated their rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

"The overall trend is basically a conspiracy among many of them to remove and restrain the civil rights of citizens whom they disagree with," one of the arrested fathers, Jeremy Story, told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "They ultimately have gone to great lengths to silence parents who disagree with them and ultimately to conceal their own malfeasance."

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Allen West Launches Bid To Lead NRA

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Wayne LaPierre will face a new challenger to lead the NRA.

Former Texas Republican Party chairman and candidate for governor Allen West announced Monday he will challenge LaPierre to become executive vice president of the gun rights organization.

West said he would accept the nomination offered up by dissident current and former NRA board members looking to replace LaPierre. He said he is running to “restore the honor, integrity, and character” of the NRA.

LaPierre has faced significant opposition within the group, which in recent years has faced financial struggles, a failed bankruptcy, and a corruption suit brought by the Attorney General of New York.

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Abbott Will Investigate Whether School District Pressured Staff To Vote For Bonds

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Gov. Greg Abbott wants to look into allegations to see if staffers at the largest school district in San Antonio, Northside Independent School District, felt pressured to vote in the recent bond election last weekend. 

Voters approved San Antonio's $1.2 billion bond, which also included the passing of Northside ISD's $992 million bond. About 58% of voters were in favor of Northside ISD's bond. 

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Conservative Candidates Sweep Tarrant Co. School Election

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All but one of the 11 Tarrant County conservative school board candidates, who were backed this year by several high-profile donors and PACs, defeated their opponents during Saturday’s local elections, according to unofficial results.

The one candidate backed by the groups who didn’t win outright advances to a runoff election in June.

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Pro-Life Democrat Cuellar Gets Help From National Democrats

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Just a day after Democrats forcefully recommitted to protecting abortion rights, a U.S. House leader swooped into Texas on Wednesday to defend and stand side-by-side with Rep. Henry Cuellar, one of the last pro-life Democrats in Congress.

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Bush Joins Calls To Declare Immigration Crisis An "Invasion" Of Southern Border

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Land Commissioner George P. Bush this week became one of the few major candidates in Texas to call for the state to take the step of declaring illegal border crossings an “invasion” under the Constitution in order to expel migrants immediately, bypassing the federal government’s authority over immigration.

Bush, who will face off against Attorney General Ken Paxton in the May 24 Republican primary runoff, said Thursday that “Texas has been left with no choice” but to take drastic action because President Joe Biden — and Paxton — won’t.

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Sen. Cruz Hails Draft SCOTUS Decision On Roe v. Wade; Condemns Leak

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz is among many republican elected officials who are hailing the leaked draft decision of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.  

“I think the right outcome is to overturn Roe versus Wade. Roe vs. Wade was wrong the day it was decided. It was seven unelected lawyers who declared to the American people that the voters no longer have the right to make decisions about abortion," Cruz told CNN's John Harwood.

But Cruz took to Twitter Tuesday to condemn the leak of the majority decision, which is subject to change before being made public. 

"The decision of an immoral and unethical individual to leak the Court's confidential working documents is the predictable consequence of a multi-year effort by Senate Democrats to politicize and undermine the Court." Said Cruz. "I hope whoever is responsible for the leaked draft opinion is fired, prosecuted, and has to serve real jail time."

It is exceedingly rare in modern times for a draft decision of the court to be lead to before it is made, officially.

Texas passed the heartbeat bill in 2021 which effectively bans abortions in Texas, and would act as a trigger for further restrictions if Roe is actually overturned.

It has not been successfully challenged in the courts since it was passed.

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Republican Leading In Special US House Election

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House Republicans might not have to wait until November to chip away at Democrats’ majority.

Internal party polling conducted this month shows the GOP has a real shot at flipping former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela’s South Texas seat in the upcoming June special election. Republican Mayra Flores led Democrat Dan Sanchez by 5 points in a late April survey — and President Joe Biden’s job approval was underwater by 14 points in a district he carried by 4 points in 2020.

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