Tag: Greg Abbott

Election Day: Asian Americans are 1 of Texas’ fastest-growing demographics, but they feel ignored by politicians!

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Houston, Texas — Shen Huang is unhappy with the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and there are few things that could dissuade a Chinese-American software engineer who lives in Flower Mound from voting this fall. The video above is from a previous story. “The stakes are very high right now,” he said. “I was crawling through the broken glass to vote.” After Huang began getting involved in politics during Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, Huang has continued to be involved ever since, including collecting votes for…

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Texas politics: 3 weeks from early voting can Democrats win statewide? Here are the state of the races as elections near!

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Texas has not elected a Democratic candidate in 28 years, the longest drought of any state in the country. There are seven statewide races in November. While it is possible for one or more Democrats to win, the odds and recent history are against them with about 35 days until election day. And the race for the top of the ballot list is the race for governor between the current Republican two-term candidate, Greg Abbott, and Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke. The men faced off in their debate, and likely only,…

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Gov. Greg Abbott, democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke expected to discuss immigration, gun reform, abortion at debate in Edinburg!

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Edinburgh, Texas (KTRK) – Governor Greg Abbott will face Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke on Friday in the first and likely only debate between the two candidates. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburgh. O’Rourke will hold a pre-debate press conference on Friday afternoon, with family members of the victims of the Ovaldi Collegiate School shooting. These family members made the 10-hour bus trip from Ovaldi to Edinburgh, but travel is nothing new to them. They also went to Austin to urge…

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US inflation: Texas governments ponder property tax rate increases as they balance budgets!

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Jasper, Texas – Every summer, Jasper County Judge Mark Allen begins to worry about two very different storms brewing: hurricanes and the county budget. The video above is from a related story. Allen and thousands of other local government officials across Texas entered this year’s budget season facing historical inflation rates and a severe labor shortage. Complicating the budget process, provinces and other tax agencies say they cannot raise taxes to cover the rising costs of employee salaries and raw materials because their hands are tied by public pressure and…

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Texas gun laws: House Speaker Dade Phelan rules out raising minimum age to buying firearm from 18 to 21!

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Speaker of the House of Representatives in Texas Dead Villain He said the state legislature won’t pass meaningful gun-safety legislation during its next session, but noted that members of his caucus may be open to creating limited exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. The video above is from a previous story. The families of the Uvald school shooting victims, along with Democrats in the House and Senate Repeatedly For a special session to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21. “Obviously at home we want…

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Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar investigating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flying migrants to Martha’s Vineyard!

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Bexar County, Texas – Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar has launched a criminal investigation into the case of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who moved 48 immigrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard last week. The decision comes on the heels of immigration rights groups and Democrats accusing Republicans of exploiting vulnerable immigrants for political points by promising them jobs and housing, only to take them to an island off the coast of Massachusetts where people who need help have not been warned. Salazar, the mayor of the county where San…

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Texas banned more books than any other state, targeting race, abortion, LGBTQ issues, PEN America report shows!

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Houston, Texas — Texas banned more books from school libraries last year than any other state in the country, targeting headlines focused on race, racism, abortion, LGBTQ representation and issues, according to a new analysis by PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for free speech. The video above is from a previous story. The report released Monday found that school officials in Texas banned 801 books in 22 school districts, and 174 titles were banned at least twice between July 2021 through June 2022. The content followed challenges from parents…

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Texas busing migrants: Gov. Greg Abbott sends buses to Vice President Kamala Harris’ DC residence after she called border ‘secure’!

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Washington, DC — governor. Greg Abbott Two more buses of migrants sent to the nation’s capital on Thursday were disembarked near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, in a move that appeared to be a response to her comments earlier this week that the border was “safe”. The video above is from a previous story. “We did [send them],” Abbott told KFYO radio station Lubbock. She is the boundary tsar, and we felt that if she had not come down to see the boundary, if the chief [Joe] Biden…

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Gov. Greg Abbott demands Pres. Joe Biden pull his student loan relief plan, arguing it would harm working class!

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Austin, Texas – Government. Greg Abbott Twenty-one Republican governors on Monday joined in urging President Joe Biden to cancel his student loan forgiveness plan, asserting that thousands of dollars in individual debt relief will hurt the working class. referees wrote in a letter That Loan Forgiveness Scheme offers a bailout to a minority of largely well-off Americans, arguing that those “with the most debt, like $50,000 or more, almost exclusively have college degrees, which means hourly workers will pay their masters and doctorate degrees with higher degrees of Lawyers, doctors…

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Texas governor’s race in Houston: Polls show Greg Abbott will likely win again in November, professor says!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Election Day is less than two months away, and there’s a lot of eyes on the Texas race for governor. On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke made a stop in Houston. At Houston Police Officers’ Union headquarters, Abbott spoke at a “Back the Blue” event and focused on public safety, bail policies, and border security. “Because of the approach that the judges in Harris County took, it resulted in the release of people who continued to commit crimes, and again, it became fatal,” Abbott…

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