Paxton opened a formal investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics, claiming its vaccine advice is bought by drug companies — in the middle of the country's worst measles outbreak in 30 years.
Abbott appoints all 21 board members of the Nueces River Authority and, with a board majority vote, can remove them. It may run out of money for its desalination plant by the end of August. He has no such power over the city council he's threatening to take over — and he's fighting to keep his emails with the river authority secret.
On July 31, delta-8 became a felony in Texas — seven years after Abbott signed the law that made it legal. A month earlier, the head of the country's largest Anheuser-Busch distributor gave him $500,000.
Abbott branded Texas the 'epicenter of AI development' and handed data centers one of the biggest tax breaks in the country. Now, in an election year, he says he's the one protecting us from them.
A governor, an attorney general, a state bill and a 50-member congressional caucus have all mobilized against a Sharia takeover. In Arkansas it traces back to a hate group's blog post and a small subdivision that's been there for two decades.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Not one Republican in Congress voted for the American Rescue Plan. Then they put out press releases bragging about the money it sent home. Malliotakis, Van Duyne, and Balderson all did it — and later voted against refilling the fund they told restaurants to apply for.
H.R. 899 is one sentence long. But abolishing the Department of Education is only the loud part of the plan — the quiet part is a new, uncapped federal tax credit that drains public school money into private and religious schools.
Christian Castro has sat in a Texas jail for two months because Governor Abbott's office hasn't signed his extradition paperwork. A Minnesota prosecutor has now written more than once. Abbott's office says it doesn't comment.