Democrat Congressional Candidate: "No Violence" On Border

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Dan Sanchez, a Dem, Texas Democrat running in the U.S. House special election next Tuesday, has claimed that “there is no violence” along the country’s southern border.

Sanchez, who is running for Texas’ 34th Congressional District, spoke about his experience living along the border in Los Indios, Dem Texas, last week during a larger discussion about gun control.

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Legislation Would Protect Children From Sexual Drag Shows

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Republican Texas Representative Bryan Slaton is working on a law that would prevent children from seeing drag shows, saying they are too sexually explicit for them.

Slaton defended himself against critics who said he and other lawmakers should be focused on gun control.

"Every day is the right day to protect children, whether it’s from violence, or it’s from sexualization, someone taking advantage of them. I mean, it’s always the right time to protect children,” Slaton said.

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Beto Using Uvalde to Jump Start His Campaign

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Democratic Texas governor’s race candidate Beto O’Rourke is hoping to use the Uvalde school shooting to reset the contest in America’s largest red state, a contest polls show him trailing incumbent Greg Abbott by several points.

Last week, following the massacre of 19 elementary school students and two teachers by an 18-year-old man with an AR-15-style rifle in Uvalde, Texas, O'Rourke briefly seized the national political spotlight by crashing the news conference of the man he wants to unseat, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, and declaring — in a moment subsequently viewed widely online — that the carnage was "on you.”

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AG Paxton Launches Investigation Into Twitter "Bots"

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Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation against Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.  

On Twitter, “bots” are automated, non-human accounts that can do virtually the same things as real people: send tweets, follow other users, and like and retweet others’ posts. Spam accounts like these inflate followers and reach, and often push deceptive and annoying activity. Bot accounts can not only reduce the quality of users’ experience on the platform but may also inflate the value of the company and the costs of doing business with it, thus directly harming Texas consumers and businesses.  

The alleged number of bots on Twitter has recently scuttled, at least temporarily, Elon Musk's plans to buy the social media platform.

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Cuellar's Razor Thin Lead Going To A Recount

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Rep. Henry Cuellar's (D-Texas) progressive primary opponent is requesting a recount after the centrist Texas congressman finished ahead by just 281 votes.

The nationally watched primary runoff between Cuellar and attorney Jessica Cisneros is a key battle in a nationwide struggle between progressives and more establishment Democrats for the soul of their party

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House Speaker Launches Independent Probe Of Evalde Shooting

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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan says he’s forming a committee to independently investigate the school shooting in Uvalde.

“The fact we still do not have an accurate picture of what exactly happened in Uvalde is an outrage,” Phelan said in a news release.

On May 24, a gunman entered Robb Elementary in Uvalde and killed 19 children and two teachers. It was the country’s worst school shooting since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Media Tout Donor Letter As Proof Of GOP Revolt Over Guns

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Mass media is touting the fact that several Republican donors, including some that have contributed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaigns, joined other conservative Texans in signing an open letter supporting congressional action to increase gun restrictions in response to the mass shooting in Uvalde that left 19 children and two teachers dead last week.

Those gun restrictions allegedly include red flag laws and extensive background checks, both of which are opposed by a majority of conservative voters in Texas.

These are among the proposals of US senator John Cornyn, who has won the praise of President Biden for being a "reasonable Republican" on the gun issue by proposing gun control legislation.

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Dem. National Campaign Committee Buying Ads For Pro-Life Democrat In Spacial Election

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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), despite its overwhelming support for abortion, is forking out thousands of dollars in an ad partnership with Dan Sanchez, a pro-life Democrat running to represent Texas' 34th Congressional District in a special election this month.

The $100,000 coordinated purchase from the DCCC was announced this weekend and ads began airing on Saturday, according to Patrick Svitek of the Texas Tribune.

Sanchez says he has been a pro-life Catholic since he was a child.

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Progressives Angered Over US House Leaders' Support of "Moderate" Cuellar In Runoff Election

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Texas election officials have still not declared a winner in the state’s 28th congressional district, where incumbent Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar leads progressive lawyer Jessica Cisneros by 175 votes out of roughly 45,000 ballots cast.

But as progressives wait to see who will win the runoff race, they cannot help but think of what might have been if House Democratic leaders had not come to Cuellar’s assistance. Cuellar secured the endorsements of the top three House Democrats, and the congressman’s campaign was also propped up by millions of dollars in super Pac spending aimed at attacking Cisneros.

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Gov. Abbott Orders Random Safety Audits Of Schools

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Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday instructed state school security and education officials to start conducting “in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits on school districts” to find weak access points and see how quickly staff can enter a school building without being stopped.

The mandate was one of several the governor laid out in a letter to school security authorities in an effort to ensure district emergency operations plans are solid and school buildings are protected in the wake of the Uvalde school massacre that left 19 children and two adults dead.

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Disgraced Uvalde School District Police Chief Sworn in As City Councilman

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The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school — even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside — has been placed with the school district's homegrown police chief, Pete Arredondo.

Arredondo was elected to the city council earlier this month, and has taken his place on the board, despite an ongoing investigation into his actions that day.

Mayor Don McLaughlin said there was nothing the city could do to prevent him being sworn in, because he had been duly elected to the position.

The state Department of Public Safety (DPS) reportedly says Arresondo is not cooperating with the ongoing investigation of the shooting.

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