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Published 6 hours agoElon Musk said he wants to build an Austin-to-San Antonio tunnel. That’s news to officials in both cities.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has concocted another grandiose stunt. On social media platform X, which he owns, Musk last week teased plans by his Boring Co. to build an 80-mile-long “hyperloop” tunnel connecting Austin and San Antonio. “Boring Company is working on a simple,…
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Published 7 hours agoKen Paxton caught talking shit about Trump on hot mic
The Texas Republican running for U.S. Senate said Trump's Dallas midterm convention hurt him and other GOP candidates.
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Published 8 hours agoTexas agriculture commissioner candidates trade ineligibility jabs
The candidates accused one another of not having ties to the agriculture industry, a requirement under state law.
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Published September 29Cook Political Report shifts Democrat Bobby Pulido’s House race to ‘tossup’ 5 weeks from Election Day
Tejano singer-turned-congressional candidate Bobby Pulido got big news this week after the Cook Political Report shifted its forecast in the race for Texas’ 15th Congressional District one more notch in his direction. The nonpartisan newsletter that analyzes federal elections,…
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Published September 29Elon Musk has spent more than $6 million backing Ken Paxton’s Senate race over recent weeks
The billionaire's super PAC is also named in a legal filing alleging it used a corporate shell company to funnel even more money into politics and to bribe voters.
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Published September 29Dodging debates — and democratic engagement — with Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton
Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Texas Republicans have spent decades cultivating the image that they’re tough hombres. They pose with guns. They vow to fight Washington, cartels, socialists, wokeness and whatever else Fox News reports is menacing the…
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Published September 29San Antonio Spurs aim to turn NBA Finals heartbreak into motivation this season
'I’ll use it as fuel to the fire for the whole year and for years to come,' point guard Dylan Harper said.
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Published September 28Ken Paxton argues for more data centers in Texas, saying ‘there’s plenty of open space’
Apparently deciding he wasn’t polling low enough, Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Paxton has come out strongly in favor of more data center development. The breakneck expansion of data centers is disproportionately affecting Republicans in rural Texas, drawing…
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Published September 28Texas Republican Bo French once called for hanging Barack Obama, records show
Republican Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French is grabbing headlines again, this time for an old tweet calling for the execution of the nation’s first Black president. In a May 2020 tweet uncovered by CNN, French — using a since-suspended X account — called for the…
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Published September 28U.S. House hopeful Brandon ‘AK Guy’ Herrera says he wishes COVID killed more fat people
Controversial Republican congressional candidate Brandon “AK Guy” Herrera said on a podcast that resurfaced last week that he wished COVID-19 had killed more fat people. Herrera, a gun influencer who has millions of YouTube followers, made the remarks on Elijah Schaffer’s…
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Published September 28Texas Democrat James Talarico accepts invitation to CNN Town Hall
Cable news outlet CNN and digital media company Jubilee Media on Monday confirmed that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico has agreed to a televised Town Hall in Texas. The political discussion will air at 7 p.m. CST on CNN and stream on Jubilee’s YouTube channel. “A…
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Published September 28Texas candidates fighting earlier and harder for key Latino voters, analysts say
Panelists at The Texas Tribune Festival said candidates need to appeal to Hispanic voters as individuals rather than representatives of their respective parties.