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It's come down to a runoff for the U.S. House seat in Texas between Republican Susan Wright, whose husband was the first member of Congress to die after being diagnosed with COVID-19, and Republican Jake Ellzey.
The runoff election is set for June 5. It will be the first time in a decade that Fort Worth voters will elect a new mayor.
Two Republicans emerged from a total of 23 candidates to advance to the runoff in the Texas 6th Congressional District.
Twenty-three candidates are vying for the open seat after Republican Congressman Ron Wright died earlier this year in connection with COVID-19.
It would require the state's sixth grade social studies curriculum to include lessons on digital ethics, etiquette, and safety.
Neither ad specifically mentions an endorsement, but city ethics rules prohibit appointed city officials from engaging in political activity on behalf of others.
Rep. Ron Wright, who had been battling lung cancer since 2020 and recently contracted COVID-19, died Sunday, February 8.
In Fort Worth, ten candidates are vying to succeed Mayor Betsy Price, whose ten years of service is the longest in the city's history.
Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger headed south to Texas this week looking for allies. The lawmaker was on a mission to find Republicans who, like him, see former President Donald Trump as a scourge on their party.
It sounds like science fiction but "ghost voting" is a real, if little-known legal practice at the Texas state capitol.
After a constitutional carry bill initially stalled in the Texas Senate, a new special committee on constitutional issues formed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick held a hearing on the measure Thursday.
"Boring but radical." That's the word from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who fell asleep during President Joe Biden's Wednesday address to a joint session of Congress.
Texas already has some of the loosest gun laws in the U.S., and now state lawmakers are considering making it legal to carry a handgun in public without a permit, background check or training.
The bill would make significant changes to how sexual assault cases are handled, moving the decision-making power on whether to bring felony-level charges from the chain of command.
It would provide universal pre-k for 3 and 4-year-old children, free community college for two years, and offer paid leave for up to 12 weeks and up to $4,000 per month.
