GOP, Texas and congress
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Texans clashed over a redistricting plan targeting El Paso’s District 16, with critics calling it undemocratic and supporters urging change.
State lawmakers were in Arlington Monday to hear from Texans on a proposal to redraw the state's congressional voting maps.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNTexas GOP Rep. Giovanni Capriglione admits affair, denies abortion allegationsA conservative news site published an interview with a woman who alleges a 17-year affair with the Southlake representative, who said this week he wouldn’t seek reelection.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency would release a proposal eliminating a finding that climate change posed a public health threat, which underpins greenhouse gas regulation.
As Texas moves forward with an off-cycle redistricting to shore up Republicans’ narrow House majority, Gov. Gavin Newsom is plotting a Democratic response in California. But the state’s independent redistricting commission is a major obstacle.
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The Texas Tribune on MSNTexas hospitals, clinics spared the worst of GOP Medicaid cuts. An expected rise in the uninsured rate could change that.Texas clinics, in particular, are worried about their ability to meet patient needs once people begin losing insurance under changes from Republicans’ recent megabill.
But thanks to social media and Republican lawmakers eager to please grassroots voters who participate in primary elections, Jade Helm did facilitate another takeover of Texas: one of conspiracy theories that the state remains under a decade later.
She alleged that the relationship turned sour after he began playing out his “foul” fantasies — while he worked to “erode away at women’s rights.”