On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.
At a Republican donor summit in Las Vegas, Randy Fine called the 'rise of Islam in America' the elephant in the room and Brandon Gill called Islam 'fundamentally incompatible with our way of life.' They had already put it in a bill.
On Fox News he blamed a residency rule Texans got rid of nearly eleven years ago. His explanation says nothing at all about the two other houses whose mortgages bar renting, one of which is on Airbnb.
Tony Gonzales resigned on April 14. Greg Abbott still has not called a special election, and the seat is not on track to be filled until January — a vacancy of roughly 260 days. A Democrat resigned the same day in California; voters there have already picked his replacement.
H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
A Republican governor signed the Texas Dream Act in 2001 with bipartisan support. In 2025 the Justice Department sued, Paxton's office agreed the law was illegal, and a judge struck it down before anyone who relied on it could be heard. The DOJ has now sued 21 states.
Texas added $1 to every car insurance policy to fight catalytic converter theft. A board Abbott appoints spent at least $30 million of it on AI cameras that log where Texans drive. Abbott stopped it Thursday night — the night before the Tribune published.
More than 1.2 million Texans have suspended voter registrations with the November election barely two months away. Here is the record of the two Texas Republicans on the November ballot who have spent years working those voter rolls — and what you can do before the October 5 deadline.
An AI super PAC that raised $125 million exists to stop states and cities from enforcing their own AI rules. One of these Republicans wrote the bill that does the preempting, one was promised $850,000 in a race he had already won, two were buying the stock, and one was carried by $2.35 million in outside money.
