The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day: TX23’s Rep.Tony Gonzales gives it up but he sure doesn’t sound very repentant to me in his official statement. That makes Brandon Herrera the TX23 GOP nominee. This adds to other races that move Texas’ GOP congressional delegation more conservative.
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If you missed it, go listen on this Alamo Day: Rick Range: What really happened to David Crockett at the Alamo? – Pratt on Texas 12/18/2025
Paxton’s offer on national Voter I.D. hands Trump a much bigger lever over Senate leadership and he’s already using it. Could this gift to Trump play in his senate race endorsement decision?
Oil and gas rig count rises in Texas but not elsewhere.
Sheets is promising to do something that is as unethical as he claims Sid Miller would do: Sheets promise to fire “every one of the cancerous people that were pro-Sid” in the Texas Dept. of Agriculture. That statement goes well beyond the traditional few at the top that normally change.
Trump administration signals change in course on Big Bend border wall. Appeasing the rich and influential at our expense?
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