- Texas House members look spineless in Speaker Bonnen affair
- Investigation into allegations against Wichita County Judge Woody Gossom dismissed – another example of lazy bill writing in the Legislature
- Trump gave states power to admit refugees. As other GOP governors sign on, Abbott is silent.
- Top state court will decide case claiming government immunity for private-college cops
- Fewer Prison Suicides Could Be Due To A Change In How They’re Reported
- ‘The place is a jungle’: Texas youth prisons still beset by gangs, violence, abuse
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- West Freeway Church of Christ shooting stories
- Raw video of shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ VIDEO
- Police: Congregants Kill Man Who Fatally Shoots 2 at Texas Church
- Good Guy with a Gun Shoots Alleged Texas Church Shooter VIDEO
- Jack Wilson, Texas Church Shooting Hero
- Firearms Instructor Took Out Gunman at Texas Church Service
- Hero of White Settlement Church Shooting Running for Hood County Commissioner
- Senior minister reacts following church shooting: “Our home was invaded” VIDEO
- ‘It could have been a lot worse,’ White Settlement church minister says after church shooting VIDEO
- Gunman kills 2 in church near Fort Worth; parishioners return fire, shoot man dead
- River Oaks Man Identified as Gunman in White Settlement Church Shooting
- Republicans praise gun laws they say thwarted church shooter; Democrats again call for gun control
- Lt. Gov. Praises Armed Parishioners, Calls Them ‘Immediate Responders’
- Lt. Governor Patrick Statement at West Freeway Church of Christ – Patrick is hungry to repair the damage he’s done to himself in aligning with the Left on background check expansion.
- Governor Abbott Statement On Shooting At West Freeway Church Of Christ In White Settlement
- AG Ken Paxton addressed shooting at North Texas church VIDEO
- Analyzing 2019: Texas shootings and 2nd Amendment politics
- Texas’s Concealed-Carry Law Prevented Mass Murder
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- Keith Nielsen is challenging Paul Simpson for chairman of the Harris County Republican Party
- Terry Wade: Energizing Collin County Conservatives
- HD60: Jon Francis Calls for Constitutional Carry & Abolishing Gun Free Zones, a first in race (do not have a link to this online, it comes from a press release.)
- Benny Martinez, Latino Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 85
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- TX13: Ronny Jackson speaks in Wichita Falls VIDEO
- 3 years in, no sign of Trump’s replacement for Obamacare
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- Impeachment/investigation/innuendo
- The liberal media’s sordid history of Russia-Ukraine fake news
- Yale psychiatrist to Pelosi: A “mental health hold” on Trump is inevitable
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- Presidential race / national politics
- With major investment, presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is taking Texas seriously
- Michael Bloomberg revs up Texas campaign with big plans
- Buttigieg’s Mandate Is Unneeded
- Buttigieg goes ‘full AOC,’ tells a bunch of kids that the Constitution’s Framers ‘did not understand that slavery was a bad thing’ VIDEO
- Panic: Elizabeth Warren begs for bucks from supporters
- Biden: Sure, I’d nominate Obama to the Supreme Court
- Biden backtracks in Iowa, now says he’d obey subpoena to testify
- Hunter Biden Had Tax Lien Filed Against Him After Joining Burisma
- Leftists Blame Trump for Rise in Anti-Semitism After Hanukkah Attack
- George Takei: Trump Voters Are Helping to Destroy America
- Democrats peddle doom, but the middle class never had it so good
- The left is gaslighting the country about anti-Semitism in New York
- Obama, Trump Tie as America’s Most Admired Men in 2019
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- Border / immigration
- 4.3M Migrants Caught at SW Border in Decade — More Than Los Angeles Population
- As DACA ends, deportation proceedings begin
- Rich Lowry: Trump at the Border VIDEO
- Fugitive Narco-Terrorist Blames Mexican Border State Police for His Murders
- Church Used as Drug Stash House Raided by Mexican Border State Cops
- Police Chief from Mexican Border State Charged in Cartel Massacre of U.S. Mormon Family
- Trump gave states power to admit refugees. As other GOP governors sign on, Abbott is silent.
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- Business
- Texas factory output rebounds in December
- ExxonMobil is top driller in Texas, Permian in 2019
- Fair pay a distant dream for produce packers in Rio Grande Valley
- Former San Antonio hotel building downtown could be turned into mixed-income apartments
- Austin-Bergstrom takes flight … internationally
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Harris Co. Sheriff: 2 Dead, Seven Shot in Music Video ‘Ambush’
- Houston Rapper Injured in Drive-By Shooting
- 2 Die While Cleaning Chemical Tank at Houston-Area Business
- US Judge Calls for Retrial of 1 Count in Texas Terror Attack
- Liberty Hill woman accused of beating that sent son to hospital
- ‘I killed Jennifer’: Former UTSA football player’s confession to sister’s killing caught on video, police say
- Ector Co. woman admitted shooting step father
- Midland residents say the recent fatal shooting isn’t rare news for the neighborhood VIDEO
- Austin police officers injured after man attempts to take Taser during arrest
- Dallas woman caught hauling a lot of weed in Wichita Co.
- Traffic stop nets over 8 pounds of marijuana near Littlefield
- Wichita Falls police look for public help in 2003 cold case homicide
- North Texas Boy Got a Magnifying Glass for Christmas, He Set His Front Yard on Fire VIDEO
- Austin man dies in two-vehicle crash near Novice
- Son of Wylie East Elementary School principal killed in crash in Coleman County
- Nine years later, questions about Hailey Dunn’s death linger VIDEO
- Texas father still looking for answers, justice in 2010 death of Hailey Dunn
- Abilene man accused of beating, robbing victim for $5 and a phone
- FBI: Child predator with oilfield background could be in west Texas
- Semi-Truck Careens Into Accident, Strikes Texas DPS Trooper in Lubbock Co.
- KCBD Photographer captures crash on camera that severely injures state trooper and pins another person in truck
- 2 in custody after wide-ranging Lubbock police pursuit
- Anti-Wimp: Robbers Shot in Fireworks Stand Hold-Up
- Mailman shot on delivery route in west Houston on Saturday
- Man who fled from traffic stop dies in car crash in S. Houston
- Police shoot armed suspect dead after pursuit in southeast Houston
- Man lured outside by tools shot dead outside of his north Houston apartment
- Man arrested after barricading himself in home with 2-year-old in SW Houston
- Man finds fiancée, family friend stabbed to death in Houston home, police say
- Green Acres Baptist Church Pays Off Millions in Medical Debt for Thousands in Smith County
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- Local government
- Midland County elections administrator’s job safe for now – insane, then they deserve the incompetence under which they are suffering.
- Investigation into allegations against Wichita County Judge Woody Gossom dismissed – another example of lazy bill writing in the Legislature
- Married couple a first for Bowie VFD
- Montague County treasurer resigns one year into term
- Odessa police officer to be honored for courageous act during August mass shooting
- San Angelo launches new online water payment system Jan. 2
- City of Seminole to Get a Fix for Misreading Water Meters
- Feds owe dam-flooded residents of Harvey $1 billion, while local governments owe none
- McKinney recall election organizers have enough votes to possibly oust councilman
- Harris County constable faces whistleblower lawsuit
- San Antonio Paid Sick Leave: Right Conversation, Wrong Forum
- SAWS Rates Should Prioritize Affordability, Committee Says
- Future of home values unclear in Austin code rewrite
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- Colleges & universities
- UT Researchers Team With Oil And Gas Professionals To Bring Geothermal Tech To Market
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