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1Sep 6, '24New: @Liz_Cheney has endorsed Democratic U.S. Rep. Colin Allred for Senate. #TribFest2436×2.6M11k2.6k327
2Jun 17, '23Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that will nullify local laws mandating water breaks for construction workers — despite Texas being first in work-related heat exposure deaths. Unions20.7×1.5M6.5k3k187
3Aug 12, '24Breaking: Two women have filed federal complaints against Texas hospitals they say refused to treat their ectopic pregnancies, leading both women to lose their fallopian tubes and 17.5×1.3M7.3k3k279
4May 27, '23BREAKING: The Texas House has voted to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office. Paxton will be temporarily remo12.3×882k7.1k1.6k37
5Aug 12, '23U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson threatened to beat up a state trooper and take down the Carson County sheriff in the next election after deputies detained him at a rodeo outside of Amarill11.8×847k4k1.8k101
6Sep 27, '22Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home Monday in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to avoid being served a subpoena, according to an affidavit filed in9.7×025k9.9k530
7Sep 15, '20NEW: ICE deported a crucial witness in an ongoing investigation into allegations of sexual assault and harassment at an El Paso immigrant detention center, according to the witness8.6×014k14k585
8Mar 13, '20Stop buying all the toilet paper. Stop stockpiling groceries and household supplies. There's no shortage if everyone only takes what they need. #coronavirus #COVID_19 #COVID198.5×022k12k129
9Oct 21, '20A new Texas rule, recommended by Gov. Greg Abbott’s office, will no longer prohibit social workers from turning away clients on the basis of disability, sexual orientation or gende7.5×05.7k4.7k515
10May 1, '23U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, is set to challenge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for reelection in 2024 and could announce his campaign within days. The former NFL player and civ7.0×504k7.7k1.4k23
11Nov 17, '23Breaking: ​The Texas House on Friday voted to strip school vouchers from the chamber’s massive education funding bill, effectively gutting Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priority from the 6.9×495k7.5k79636
12Oct 3, '24In a significant political shift, former Congressman Adam Kinzinger is leading a group of Republicans backing Dallas Democrat Colin Allred, a direct rebuke of GOP colleague U.S. Se6.6×477k22k5.2k134
13Jun 24, '191/ People are buying diapers, wipes, soaps and toys to donate to children in overcrowded migrant detention centers. But they're being turned away.6.6×011k9.8k186
14Jun 9, '23Breaking: Nate Paul, an Austin real-estate developer known for his connection to suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton’s misconduct, was booked into the Travis County Jail Thursday6.4×459k7.1k1.8k46
15Aug 14, '20Thread: Guards in an immigrant detention center in El Paso sexually assaulted and harassed detainees in a “pattern and practice” of abuse, according to a complaint filed by a Texas6.1×07.9k10k532
16Oct 27, '20Breaking: Texas social workers will no longer be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ Texans and people with disabilities. A state board voted Tuesday to undo a rule change that h5.8×015k6.4k164
17Jan 26, '191/ You might be seeing headlines or tweets tonight that claim Texas says 58,000 non-citizens have voted in Texas. That is not true. That is not what the state has said. Here is wha5.7×011k8k336
18Jun 9, '23A state appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against Beto O’Rourke, ruling Friday that O’Rourke’s criticism of the power-grid failure in 2021 is protected by the First Amendment.5.4×388k13k2k25
19Feb 17, '21No, frozen wind turbines are not the main culprit for Texas' power outages.5.4×015k6.8k333
20Nov 1, '20The FBI is looking into a Friday incident in which a group of Trump supporters surrounded and followed a Biden campaign bus as it drove up I-35 in Hays County. Wendy Davis was on t5.1×014k4.9k212
21Jul 23, '191/ He has a birth certificate and a Social Security number. But ICE has detained this U.S. citizen for three weeks.5.1×09.8k7.7k209
22Jan 21, '211/ Dallas County officials halted a plan that would have prioritized COVID-19 vaccine doses for people living in the most vulnerable ZIP codes after Texas threatened to cut the cou4.8×05.4k5.8k457
23Jun 21, '23Gov. Greg Abbott's veto of a bipartisan bill expanding vote-by-mail access for people with disabilities has disappointed advocates.4.7×337k3.7k1.6k47
24Sep 23, '20.@SenTedCruz successfully blocked a resolution honoring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He opposed "partisan" language that noted her dying wish was that her succes4.6×06.3k3.7k121
25Aug 20, '191/ Many Texans are seeing their marijuana possession cases dismissed because of a new law legalizing hemp. Texas State Troopers were told to stop arresting people for low-level pot4.6×011k5.6k346
26May 25, '23Breaking: A Texas House committee voted unanimously to recommend that AG Ken Paxton be impeached and removed from office. Paxton now faces the prospect of indictment by the full ch4.5×322k4.9k1k27
27May 27, '23Attorney General Ken Paxton called several lawmakers and threatened them with political consequences if they voted for his impeachment, according to state Rep. Charlie Geren.3.9×278k3k1.1k33
28Feb 19, '21As snow blanketed much of Texas on Sunday, an 11-year-old gleefully played outside. It was his first time seeing snow. Less than 24 hours later, as temperatures plunged to near sin3.7×07.7k4.7k404
29Jan 8, '21While U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz doesn’t appear to have any regrets for his role in inciting an insurrection — on Thursday he said he would do it all over again if he had to — his colleagu3.6×07.9k3k144
30Sep 25, '22.@Liz_Cheney: “I’m going to do everything I can to make sure Kari Lake is not elected.” Does that include campaigning for Democrats? “Yes.” #TribFest223.5×012k2.4k87
31Jan 7, '21Julián and Joaquin Castro are calling on Ted Cruz to resign after he objected to Joe Biden's victory just before pro-Trump rioters breached Congress this afternoon.3.4×011k3.1k52
32Nov 15, '19BREAKING: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed Rodney Reed's execution, outweighing the parole board's recommendation.3.3×07.3k4.9k51
33Jun 17, '23A state appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against Beto O’Rourke, ruling last week that O’Rourke’s criticism of the power-grid failure in 2021 is protected by the First Amendment.3.2×231k6.8k1k15
34Nov 26, '18.@BetoORourke said Monday he is not ruling out a 2020 presidential run.3.2×09.7k3.1k37
35Feb 18, '21Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid sa3.2×06.1k3.9k469
36Feb 1, '22Gov. Greg Abbott said he could not guarantee power would stay on throughout Texas this week, just two months after he promised the lights would stay on this winter.3.1×06.8k3.3k68
37Dec 16, '191/ These county officials in Texas just found a missing ballot box. There are 836 ballots inside. That’s enough to change the result of a $569 million bond election.3.0×05.6k4k140
38Jun 20, '191/ As a debate rages over calling migrant detention centers “concentration camps,” it is worth revisiting reporting and writing about the conditions at these facilities. Follow thi2.9×05.3k4.3k309
39Sep 19, '18.@BetoORourke leads @TedCruz by 2 points among likely voters in U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll.2.9×07.8k3.1k18
40Mar 31, '20Breaking: A Texas-based industrial supplier tried to broker a sale of up to 2 million protective medical masks at six times the usual price. Critics say a price like that at a time2.9×05.2k4.1k91
41Aug 28, '18Roy Oliver was found guilty of murder in the police shooting of Jordan Edwards. Police officers are almost never convicted of murder. Body cameras may have made the difference in t2.9×06.4k4.2k46
42May 27, '23All five of the representatives from Collin County, where Ken Paxton and his wife have lived for decades, voted in favor of his impeachment. House Speaker Dade Phelan and another t2.9×205k3.5k69115
43May 24, '22Texas Republican leaders promised action on gun safety after the El Paso shooting. Instead, they passed permitless carry. Our story from June 2021: #TXlege2.9×07.2k3.8k152
44Apr 13, '211/ Marvin Scott III died in Texas police custody. His family says they will protest until the officers involved are arrested. Photos by @shelbytauber.2.7×05.3k4.4k180
45Oct 21, '20Several senior aides in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office accused the state’s top lawyer of bribery and abuse of office. On Tuesday, one of them was terminated. "It was no2.7×05k3.9k162
46Oct 23, '20The unusually large voter turnout in Texas has persisted through the first 10 days of the early voting period, leading experts to predict that the state could reach overall turnout2.6×07.4k2.4k75
47Aug 21, '201/ A postal workers' union leader in San Antonio said today that the agency sought to hide evidence of problems when a congressman visited a facility this week.2.6×04.3k4.5k153
48Oct 30, '20Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness never got his Texas absentee ballot that he requested. Here's how he still voted — and how you can too if you’re in a similar situation.2.5×05.5k3.6k109
49Aug 13, '20Breaking: The Austin City Council unanimously voted to cut its $434 million police department budget by one-third.2.5×06.1k2.8k103
50Oct 1, '20.@GovAbbott ordered Texas counties to reduce the number of ballot dropoff locations to one per county. An unprecedented number of absentee ballots are expected to be cast this fall2.4×03.6k2.9k89
51Oct 22, '20A second whistleblower was fired from the Texas attorney general’s office after accusing Ken Paxton of crimes that included bribery and abuse of office. Employment attorneys say Pa2.4×04.9k3.5k106
52Jun 26, '191/ This is Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter, Valeria. They were reportedly unable to request asylum on U.S. soil. They later drowned trying to cros2.4×04.1k3.5k107
53Apr 13, '22U.S. Customs and Border Protection called the state inspections ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott “unnecessary” and said commercial traffic at the Texas-Mexico border has dropped 60% sin2.4×05.8k3.1k57
54Feb 17, '21A grandmother slept in her car. Parents burned belongings to keep their children warm. One resident watched the battery level of her partner's oxygen machine drain away. Texans hav2.4×05.3k3.3k172
55Dec 5, '18.@BetoORourke met with @BarackObama as he ponders a 2020 presidential campaign.2.3×06.9k2.3k43
56Oct 6, '20Just two days after 31-year-old Jonathan Price was fatally shot, a Texas police officer was arrested on suspicion of murder. But a lawyer for Price’s family says Shaun Lucas should2.3×04.8k3.3k110
57Jul 10, '20As coronavirus numbers continue to surge, Gov. Greg Abbott said today that "the worst is yet to come." He also said that if people keep violating his mask order, the next step coul2.1×03.2k2k84
58Aug 25, '21Breaking: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans COVID-19 vaccine mandates for governmental entities, regardless of whether the vaccines have full FDA approval2.1×03.4k1.3k111
59Feb 17, '191/ NEW: Sen. Angela Paxton has filed a bill that would give Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — her husband — more regulatory power. Including regulatory power related to state sec2.1×03.1k3.2k78
60Aug 5, '20Instead of placing migrant children who arrive at the border in federally regulated and state-licensed shelters, the U.S. has moved hundreds of minors to a clandestine network of h2.1×03.4k3.2k223
61Feb 16, '21“The ERCOT grid has collapsed in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union,” said Ed Hirs, an energy fellow at the University of Houston. “It limped along on underinvestment 2.0×05k2.5k195
62Oct 30, '21When a Biden campaign bus was followed by a "Trump Train" on a Central Texas highway last year, multiple bus passengers fearing for their safety asked San Marcos law enforcement fo2.0×03.8k2.2k264
63Jul 11, '20U.S. Sen. @tedcruz says a @GoyaFoods boycott is an attempt to “silence free speech.” But last year, Cruz said he was exerting free speech when he encouraged people to boycott @Nike2.0×05.3k2k49
64Mar 7, '20Breaking: Dallas County officials are seeking a recount of the March 3 primary results after discovering that an unknown number of ballots were not initially counted. #txlege #texa2.0×04.6k2.5k72
65Jul 12, '21BREAKING: Texas House Democrats plan to flee the state in move that could block voting restrictions bill, bring Legislature to a halt2.0×05.5k1.4k94
67Sep 25, '22.@Liz_Cheney says if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in 2024, she will not be a Republican. #TribFest221.9×03.8k75848
68Sep 7, '191/ A federal judge has threatened to lock up Texas prison officials for violating his court order to place some inmates in air conditioning. "We ought to have prison officials in p1.9×04.9k2.6k82
69Jul 2, '20Breaking: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a nearly statewide mask mandate. The order requires "all Texans to wear a face covering over the nose and mouth in public spaces in coun1.8×03.3k2k47
70Nov 15, '21Breaking news: @BetoORourke is officially running for governor of Texas. #TX20221.8×04.9k1.5k33
71Oct 30, '21During a 2020 Texas highway confrontation between a “Trump Train” and a Biden campaign bus, Democrats asked San Marcos police for an escort. A lawsuit says officers dismissed the r1.8×04.1k2.1k175
72Sep 28, '20If the Supreme Court struck down the Affordable Care Act, some 1 million Texans would lose subsidized health insurance plans. Texas’ GOP leaders have yet to produce a promised plan1.8×04.3k2.5k27
73Dec 16, '20A former Houston police captain is accused of a violent attempt to find evidence for an election conspiracy theory. He was working for a powerful Texas Republican activist's group,1.8×03k2k224
74Jul 20, '22Greg Abbott claimed Texas provides expectant mothers “necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child,” but it is now one of a dwindling number of states not to of1.7×02.9k2.4k161
75Jul 14, '191/ Undocumented immigrants in Houston will seek shelter in churches, mosques and synagogues today. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are expected to partake in a deporta1.7×03.7k2.2k36
76Apr 29, '211/ The February winter storm that left millions in Texas without power is being called the biggest epidemic of carbon monoxide poisoning in recent history. Texas has done little to1.7×03.1k2.4k258
77Jan 17, '21Wendy Davis says Trump supporters harassing a Biden bus in Texas should have served as a warning before U.S. Capitol riot: "This is a symptom of a broader problem that is not going1.6×05.8k1.6k53
78Mar 18, '21Former President George W. Bush said during an interview with us at #SXSW that the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection left him "disgusted." "I was sick to my stomach ... to see our nation1.6×04k1.5k114
79Nov 30, '18Breaking: A Dallas grand jury has indicted Amber Guyger, the fired police officer who killed Botham Jean, an unarmed black man, in an alleged apartment mixup.1.6×03.5k2k20
80Jan 29, '21Beto O’Rourke said earlier this week he will consider challenging Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022, when the Republican governor is up for reelection. The two sparred Thursday in what coul1.6×04.3k1.2k33
81Nov 18, '20The FBI is investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to the @AP. The bureau is reportedly examining claims that Paxton broke the law by using the agency to serve t1.6×03.4k1.3k44
82Jan 30, '21Texas lawmakers have filed legislation that would ban transgender girls and women who attend public K-12 schools, colleges and universities from playing on single-sex sports teams 1.5×03.5k681100
83Jun 21, '22Breaking: Video and transcripts reviewed by The @TexasTribune of the law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting show police officers were equipped to confront the shoot1.5×03.1k1.9k240
84Apr 12, '22Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller called on Gov. Greg Abbott to stop additional vehicle inspections at the border Tuesday. Miller criticized the measure as "economy killing1.5×03.7k1.9k31
85Jul 8, '20Breaking: Houston officials have canceled the Texas GOP’s in-person convention due to public health concerns.1.5×03.6k1.5k26
86May 25, '22Hours after Uvalde school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott attended a fundraiser 300 miles away1.5×03k1.6k63
87Jan 6, '21.@JoaquinCastrotx on @TedCruz: “Ted Cruz is a highly intelligent guy. And he knows what he’s doing. And he knows that he’s wrong.” Castro has called on Cruz to resign.1.5×05.3k1.3k33
88Sep 21, '18“You know only one of us has been to each county in Texas and would have an idea of what Texas values and interests are.” — @BetoORourke Watch the debate here, courtesy of @NBCDFW.1.4×05k1.4k21
89Nov 6, '18BREAKING: A state district judge has ordered Harris County to extend voting hours at nine polling locations that failed to open on time this morning. #Midterms2018 #ElectionDay #El1.3×03.4k1.8k10
90Feb 24, '17Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, will headline a Planned Parenthood fundraiser:1.2×03.5k1.6k1
91Feb 14, '20NEW: Bernie Sanders is now the leading Democratic presidential candidate among Texas voters, according to our latest poll. Bernie Sanders: 24% Joe Biden: 22% Elizabeth Warren: 15% 1.2×04.7k93023
92Sep 25, '22What is the best piece of advice that your father has given you? @Liz_Cheney says on New Year’s Day this year, he said to her: “Defend the republic, daughter. And I will.” #TribFes1.1×04k67134
93Apr 3, '18Breaking: Beto O'Rourke says he has raised a staggering $6.7 million in the first quarter of 2018. It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Ted Cruz. #tx201.1×03.5k1.1k5
94Jan 25, '191/ Beto O'Rourke is considering a 2020 presidential campaign much like he ran his 2018 U.S. Senate campaign: on his own terms.1.1×03.3k1.1k33
95Sep 21, '18.@BetoORourke to @TedCruz: “If the president attacks you personally…how you respond is your business. But when the president attacks our institutions…that is our business.” Watch t1.1×03.5k1.2k23
97Nov 4, '20🚨 Texans: Remember that if you are still in line when polls close, stay in line! You still get to vote.1.0×03.1k1.3k5
98Oct 12, '18BREAKING: @BetoORourke says he raised $38.1 million in the third quarter. That's more than three times what @TedCruz raised in the same quarter. And it is a record for a U.S. Senat1.0×03.3k8915
99Feb 5, '19U.S. Rep. @JoaquinCastrotx, D-San Antonio, is one of several lawmakers to initially back a Green New Deal, spearheaded by Rep. @AOC of New York. Other names on the shortlist: + @Re0.7×03.1k4725

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