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Texas teachers stand behind Kamala Harris after years of feeling targeted, neglected by Republicans

At a gathering for teachers in Houston, educators saw Harris as a potential ally at a time when conservatives push for changes in Texas classrooms.

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Texas sues Biden administration over confidential contraception for teens

Federal clinics in Texas are already required to get parental permission to prescribe birth control after a 2022 court ruling.

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CenterPoint CEO promises improvements as Texas scrutinizes company’s Beryl response

Jason Wells told regulators the company will launch a new outage tracker by Aug. 1. It will also trim more tree limbs near power lines and hire an executive to focus on emergency response.

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Kamala Harris’ historic candidacy energizes Texas’ Black and Indian American voters

Black and Asian American voters collectively made up just 15% of the turnout in Texas’ 2020 and 2022 elections, according to exit polls.

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Texans, what are your thoughts on the 2024 election?

We want to hear from all Texans – even if you can’t vote or are not sure you want to vote.

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In the Texas Panhandle, nurses make home visits to new moms in need

Local leaders of the Nurse-Family Partnership hope they can secure money to expand the program to the region’s rural areas.

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CenterPoint draws state ire after Hurricane Beryl power outages. Here’s what you need to know.

Following Hurricane Beryl’s large-scale power outages, state officials launched an investigation and legislative hearings to scrutinize CenterPoint’s response after the storm.

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El Paso County officials say it’s time the state pays for Operation Lone Star arrests

County officials issued a disaster declaration Tuesday, saying the state’s mass arrests at the border have cost the county millions of dollars and overwhelmed its criminal justice system.

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U.S Rep. Lloyd Doggett took a political risk by calling on Biden to step aside. It worked.

In a Q&A, Doggett, 77, discusses his role in the recent chain of historic events and his feelings about where the party goes from here.

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National effort to connect rural students with colleges expands to Texas

Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin will get funds to visit more students in rural communities and small towns.

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51 Texas school districts are not complying with state ban on hairstyle discrimination, ACLU says

At least one school district, Tolar ISD in North Texas, told the ACLU it would update its policies to comply with the CROWN Act.

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Texas city strips funding for monthly art event over drag show

The arts center that organizes the monthly art walk, which draws 20,000 to downtown Lubbock, said the drag show happened at an off-site location and had no association with it.

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Texas attorney general can’t question Catholic Charities director over migrant services, court says

Wednesday’s ruling is the second time a Texas judge has ruled against the attorney general for investigating shelters helping migrants.

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Allred and Texas Dems bundle resources across the ballot

The statewide Democratic project will allow candidates across the ballot to share data and coordinate on grassroots operations.

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Big price cut ordered for inmate phone and video calls across Texas

A new FCC rule means a cap of 5 cents a minute for most inmate phone and video calls in the state of Texas.

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Houston candidates pitching themselves to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on November ballot

At least three Democrats are considering bids for the Houston-area seat. But Texas Democratic officials — not voters — will decide who will be on the November ballot.

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Kamala Harris to visit Houston Thursday for national teachers’ union conference

The visit will come days after President Joe Biden said he would not seek reelection and endorsed Harris’ bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination.

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Biden’s visit to Austin is back on for Monday

The president will speak at the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential library to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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In Texas, violating campaign ethics laws rarely yields repercussions. The attorney general’s office is to blame.

The number of fines for breaking state campaign ethics laws has exploded in recent years as Ken Paxton’s office rarely pursues stricter enforcement.

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Texas is once more flirting with expanding passenger rail

The state’s booming population, congestion problems and billions of federal dollars on the table have officials eyeing ways to boost passenger rail.

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Texas GOP leaders paint Harris as a disaster on border security

Everything wrong with border security is the fault of the Democratic vice president, these Republicans say.

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In Beryl’s wake, heat-related Texas deaths climb after millions left without power

So far, 23 people have died after Beryl made landfall on July 8.

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San Antonio church leaders train to serve as mental health counselors

Under a Harvard Medical School pilot program, church members and leaders will work as interns before counseling on their own, referring more serious cases to medical providers.

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A federal utility assistance program favors cold-weather states, giving less money to hot places like Texas

The program helps low-income people with heating and cooling bills, but advocates say it disadvantages Texas and other warm-weather states, even though extreme heat is a key cause of weather-related deaths.

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Texas’ DNC delegates vote 260-6 to back Kamala Harris

The delegates voted late Monday, a day after President Joe Biden exited the presidential race and endorsed Harris.

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