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Donald Trump and Republicans are nervous about the 2026 midterms. The president’s polling numbers are very bad (despite what he claims), and it doesn’t seem like Americans are thrilled with his lackeys in Congress who have supported the administration’s assault on Medicaid and other social services, his hardline immigration crackdown, or his chaotic approach to the economy. Democrats only need to flip a few seats to win back control of the House of Representatives, which would allow them to block Trump’s legislative agenda and launch investigations into his administration’s rank corruption.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to remove Democratic members of the state legislature from their offices and charge them with felonies after they fled the state. Two dozen Texas Democrats traveled to Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday to deny the Republican–controlled legislature the quorum it needs to pass an off-cycle redistricting measure aimed at securing Republicans additional seats ahead of the 2026 midterms.

“The derelict Democrat House members must return to Texas and be in attendance

when the House reconvenes at 3:00 Pm on Monday, August 4, 2025,” Abbott wrote in a letter issued on Sunday.

Democratic lawmakers in Texas are leaving the state in a last-ditch bid to prevent Republicans from further gerrymandering their congressional map at the request of President Donald Trump. If successful, the GOP’s redistricting effort could potentially give the party an additional five seats in the 2026 midterms.

Facing the possibility of arrest under the orders of Republican Governor Greg Abbott, as well as steep financial penalties for their absence, 30 Texas Democrats have fled the state to Chicago, Illinois. Their absconding will deny the state legislature the necessary quorum needed to maintain a legislative session,...

Note: This story contains mild spoilers about “The Hunting Wives.”

“The Hunting Wives” has joined the elite club of buzzed-about Netflix series, wrapping a soap opera around a murder mystery faster than you can say “Who killed Laura Palmer?” Yet perhaps the show’s most intriguing wrinkle involves incorporating just enough political references to feel like a satire of Southern-fried hypocrisy.

In TV parlance, the underlying premise of the Netflix series — which centers on a liberal Bostonian who finds guns, drugs and lots of musically accompanied sex in a Texas town — owes a debt to “Twin Peaks,” the 1990 series that turned the Laura Palmer mystery into a national guessing game, while containing trace ingredients of “Dallas,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Big Little Lies,” “The Righteous Gemstones” and a whole lot in between.

What sets the latest show apart are the throwaway references to conservative red-state politics. Those include, but aren’t limited to,...

Speaking to a private gathering of conservative operatives and fossil fuel advocates in January, a top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gave “the inside story” about how his office bullied Wells Fargo, one of America’s biggest banks, into dropping out of a global initiative to reduce carbon emissions.

The official spoke in January at the exclusive Consumers’ Research Summit in Sea Island, Georgia. Rolling Stone has exclusively obtained audio and documents from the event.

Brent Webster, the First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, recalled how his office...

Two migrants have been arrested for fatally colliding their jet ski with an 18-year-old kayaker who was a Texas Air Force recruit.

Following the incident on Grapevine Lake this Sunday, Grapevine police and the Texas Game Wardens confirmed the arrest of Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez, one of the two migrants, on May 27. The arrest was in connection with the death of an Air Force Academy cadet, Ava Renee Moore.

According to an arrest affidavit, Gonzalez is charged with second-degree felony manslaughter, reckless operation, excessive speed, and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. While a bond was not set, a bond of $500,000 was suggested in the affidavit. It is unclear if Gonzalez has an attorney to speak on her behalf yet.

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Witnesses cited in the arresting document told police Gonzalez was recklessly operating a personal watercraft (Pwc) and made several passes next...

Believe it or not, Jimmy Kimmel is worried about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s health. The ABC host expressed his concerns following the news that the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary plans to overhaul the department, a move that will eliminate an estimated 10,000 jobs.

“Why cut these employees? Just wait a few months for measles or bird flu to take them out,” Kimmel said on Thursday night. “Are we sure that worm in his head is dead? Maybe it laid eggs or something.”

This move would include cutting the jobs of employees who are currently helping health officials in Texas fight the ongoing measles outbreak. As of Tuesday, there were 327 cases in at least 15 counties for a disease that was declared to be eliminated in the United States in 2000.

“For a long time, Republicans have been arguing that the government can’t do anything right. Now they’re making absolutely sure of it,...

In the two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he managed to kill its value, hemorrhage huge swaths of revenue, alienated its advertisers, and triggered a user exodus to alternative platforms. Today, users on X — the artist formerly known as Twitter — can expect to encounter a right-wing sinkhole of artificially boosted content, gratuitous AI slop, and something akin to the experience of a foie gras goose being force fed Musk’s cringiest memes at the top of their feeds.

Elon slapped a new name on his acquisition, delivered a sloppy product,...

As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House again in January, he’s currently figuring out who his second-term cabinet will include. And, looking at the list of possibilities on Sunday night, “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver wasn’t impressed.

Referring to a chart drawn up by CNN, which showed at least three people in the running for multiple positions, Oliver opted to “state the obvious” before actually digging in on each of the possible contenders.

“That chart f–king sucks,” Oliver said. “It looks like a ‘choose your fighter’ screen where the only thing they’re fighting is the arc of the moral universe. It looks like an advent calendar where every circle opens up to a tiny piece of literal s–t. It looks like a game board for ‘Guess Who? Oops! All Assholes.’ There is a lot in there.”

The host then zeroed in on Elon Musk and Rfk Jr.

Each week, we handpick a selection of stories to give you a snapshot of trends, updates, business moves, and more from around the creator industry. This week, one of the biggest creators on the internet is reminiscing about the past, while another is looking forward to the future.

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PewDiePie gets banned by…himself? Felix Kjellberg earned a brief timeout on Twitch after broadcasting his old YouTube videos on loop. His decision to restream content 24/7 violated Twitch’s terms of service, even though he only played his own content. If he had replayed this old stream, his ban would’ve probably been longer than a few minutes.

MrBeast is preparing for his own death. The top creator on YouTube is building up a backlog of videos that can be released post-mortem in the event of his untimely demise. That may sound morbid, but he’s not the first creator to adopt this strategy.

Tony Buzbee is a name that people have been coming across lately following the emergence of the Sean Combs, aka P Diddy scandal. For several months, the critically acclaimed rapper tried his best to escape legal action until he was finally apprehended by the police in New York.

Sean “P Diddy” Combs || Image by Shamsuddin Muhammad, licensed under Cc By 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Diddy, 54, is currently being held under police custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The rapper has had multiple charges of se*ual assault, r*pe, and racketeering placed against him. Officials were also able to uncover disturbing evidence while raiding his homes. And recently, Buzbee came fourth representing 120 individuals who claim to be Diddy’s victims.

Which high-profile cases has Tony Buzbee worked on?

It is evident that P Diddy’s victims have serious accusations against him. And Tony Buzbee is certainly somebody who has...

The state of Texas is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue denying emergency medical care to pregnant women, pretty please. The request, which the justices will consider at conference on Monday, September 30, comes on the heels of a new report that shows the state’s maternal mortality rate has spiked dramatically since the state’s first ban on abortion went into effect in 2021.

Across the United States, maternal mortality rose 11 percent between 2019 to 2022; in Texas, over the same period, the maternal death rate surged 56 percent, according to...

Sally Duval, a Democrat running for the Texas state House of Representatives, released a pro-marijuana ad that shows her hitting a bong and smoking a joint.

Duval posted the ad on X saying it was “High time for a change” and residents of Texas deserve safe marijuana products.

The video begins with her smoking a blunt and, in the end, depicts her hitting a bong.

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While several states have legalized marijuana, it remains illegal in Texas at the state level. In her ad, Duval made sure to note this, along with the confusing aspects of Texas’ marijuana policy.

“While marijuana remains illegal for most Texans, hemp products that can get you high — like delta-8, delta-9 and THCa — are being sold at more than 7,000 retailers statewide,” she said.

In January, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton...

In many ways, “Zurawski v Texas” is a film about America itself and the governmental failings that have brought us to this moment. In the two years since the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, women and pregnant people have struggled to receive proper reproductive care. This urgent and necessary documentary makes plain the obvious evil of an uncaring government that insists on gaining full control of the bodies of its people, unmoved by the pain that follows.

When Amanda Zurawski’s water broke after 18 weeks, she was denied an emergency abortion and went into septic shock, having to spend three days in the ICU. She had already picked out a name for her unborn daughter — Willow — but the child never made it. As a result of this terrifying ordeal, Zurawski’s tubes were damaged and had to be reconstructed. Unlikely to be able to carry another child,...

A year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a legion of state legislators across America moved quickly to restrict abortion access. Some targeted medication abortions and mandated counseling for those seeking the procedure. Others proposed outright bans and implemented “bounty hunter” laws, which widened the scope of implication from patient and provider to anyone who helps facilitate access to an abortion. According to a report from the Center for American Progress, 50 of the 563 anti-abortion provisions introduced in 2023 were signed into law that year. Reversing the landmark 1973 case didn’t just strip protections — it set the stage for this dismal state of affairs.

Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s clear-eyed documentary Zurawski v Texas anchors the dire reports of this post-Roe landscape in the experiences of real people. The film, which premiered at Telluride, follows Molly Duane, a senior attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, as she counsels...

If there’s anyone in the world who could make good use of a time machine, it’s Roseanne Barr.

Were Doc Brown to pop by Roseanne’s house in his DeLorean, one would assume that the famed comedian might want to revisit the year 2018, when she posted a racist Tweet about former Obama administration staffer Valerie Jarrett that got her fired from her own TV show. Or at the very least, she could go back and stop herself from opening that failed vanity restaurant with Tom Arnold. Or, you know, marrying Tom Arnold.

The subject of temporal intervention came up in a recent interview with Barr. Closer Weekly asked the former sitcom star, “If you could go back in time and give yourself advice, what would you say?”

Instead of telling her past self to avoid writing that infamous social media post (presumably after explaining what “social media” is...

A federal judge has halted the Missouri attorney general’s investigation of the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America over its report last year that major sponsors’ advertisements were appearing next to extremist content on Elon Musk’s X.com.

As advertisers left the platform, Musk sued Media Matters, while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey served civil investigative demands on the watchdog group. Media Matters sued to block the investigation, citing the First Amendment.

In granting a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta wrote that “Missouri’s interest in enforcing its consumer protection laws must give way when a state actor uses them to retaliate against a media organization for protected speech.” Bailey also sought a civil penalty against the group.

“The court does not discard lightly the presumption of regularity generally afforded to

prosecutorial decision-making,” the judge wrote, as he cited court precedents.

With former President Donald Trump actively running away from Project 2025, the controversial policy and personnel program’s leaders have maintained they’ve already accomplished their goals — and will still provide Trump’s team with their lists of policy recommendations and potential second term hires.

But the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that produced Project 2025, isn’t waiting around for a second Trump administration to begin implementing its agenda — it’s working to do so right now.

As journalist Chris Geidner reports, the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit last week...

Media Matters for America, the progressive watchdog journalism organization, underwent a round of layoffs today, as its president cited the shifting media landscape as well as its defense against legal action.

A spokesperson said that more than a dozen staffers were impacted. Staffers turned to X/Twitter to post news of their layoffs.

Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters, said in a statement, “We’re confronting a legal assault on multiple fronts and given how rapidly the media landscape is shifting, we need to be extremely intentional about how we allocate resources in order to stay effective. Nobody does what Media Matters does. So, we’re taking this action now to ensure that we are sustainable, sturdy and successful for whatever lies ahead.”

Elon Musk, the owner of X/Twitter, sued Media Matters last year, alleging that the organization “manipulated the algorithms” of the social media platform so that racist...

A judge on Friday moved to halt an investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) into the liberal watchdog journalism organization Media Matters, issuing a preliminary injunction in the case.

Calling Media Matters a “radical left-wing” and “anti-free speech organization,” Paxton claimed to be investigating “potential fraudulent activity” by the group under Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act, in response to its reporting about X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Media Matters President and CEO Angelo Carusone said in a statement on Friday evening that X owner...

After a Texas law requiring visitors of Pornhub and other adult content websites to verify their age went into effect this week, the Canadian-owned website pulled out of the Lone Star State and users there are now apparently seeking workarounds in massive numbers.

Pornhub’s homepage now displays a lengthy message to those who log on in the state after Texas Hb 1181, introduced in the apparent interest of regulating the “publication or distribution of sexual material harmful to minors on an internet website,” as the law states, went into effect; the bill, which passed in June and took effect in September, makes it mandatory for pornographic websites to verify the age of consumers before allowing them to view sexually explicit content. Users must provide digital identification or use a commercial age-verification system.

A federal appeals court recently upheld the legislation, as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced last week before...

In February, Sen. Mitch McConnell‘s sister-in-law, Angela Chao, was found dead in her vehicle submerged in a pond in Texas.

The billionaire CEO of the Foremost Group, Angela was 50 years old at the time of her death. Authorities believed her death to be an accident at first but are now treating it as a criminal case.

Blanco County Sheriff’s Office wrote to Attorney General Ken Paxton, “Although the preliminary investigation indicated this was an unfortunate accident, the Sheriff’s Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity.”

It took an hour for first responders to pull Chao’s body from the vehicle. Ems were unable to resuscitate Chao. The pond where the vehicle was submerged was located on a ranch in Johnson City, Texas. Chao’s husband, Jim Breyer, has ties to the corporation that owns the ranch.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused President Joe Biden of “running logistics for the cartels” in Mexico.

“The very first day Joe Biden came into office, he announced there would be no more deportations [of migrants]. Why would he announce that? He was sending a signal to the cartels to get these people here as fast as they can. He was running logistics for the cartels,” Paxton said Saturday while delivering remarks to the Davis County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day fundraising dinner in Utah, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Despite what Paxton claims,...

The case of Darryl George, a Texas high school junior suspended multiple times for wearing his hair in locs, will go to trial next month, according to The Associated Press. A judge decided on Wednesday that George’s family’s claims that his hairstyle is protected by a law known as the Crown Act should be heard in court. State District Judge Chap Cain III set a trial date for Feb. 22 in Anahuac, Texas.

George, 18, wears his locs tied on top of his head. Administrators at Barbers Hill High School...

Seattle Children’s Hospital has sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) over what they consider an invasive and unlawful request from his office to turn over information on Texas residents who received gender-affirming care at the out-of-state hospital.

The hospital is seeking to have a November subpoena issued by Paxton dismissed by the Travis County District Court. The Texas attorney general had demanded unredacted access to information on Texan children who have been treated at the hospital, their medication, diagnoses, as well as lab and test results.

Paxton’s...

When Kate Cox was forced to flee Texas after state authorities denied her pleas to terminate a potentially deadly pregnancy, it laid bare the true cost of state control over women’s reproductive health. It’s also made plain that Republicans — despite their claims to hold the moral high ground on abortion — cannot defend the policies they champion when they present real-world consequences.

Cox, whose 21-week-old fetus was diagnosed with a deadly genetic condition, had been in and out of emergency rooms as her already complicated pregnancy deteriorated her health...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled against Kate Cox, the pregnant mother who sought permission to obtain an emergency abortion, on Monday.

“These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the court’s seven-page ruling read. The court found that Cox’s doctor, Dr. Damla Karsan, had “asked a court to pre-authorize the abortion yet she could not, or at least did not, attest to the court that Ms. Cox’s condition poses the risks the exception requires.”

Cox, who is...

Kate Cox, the Texas mother who sought permission to obtain an abortion, has been forced to flee the state to get medical care, her lawyers said on Monday.

“This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represents Cox. “She’s been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer.”

Cox, who lives in the Dallas area, was 20 weeks pregnant with her third child when the baby was diagnosed with trisomy 18, a fatal condition.

Updated with new details: Tucker Carlson’s new streaming site has launched and on offer are an array of different media products, all featuring Carlson. They include the self-explanatory “Tucker Carlson Interview,” “After the Tucker Carlson Interview,” “Ask Tucker,” “Tc Shorts,” “The Tucker Carlson Encounter” and “Tucker Carlson Films.”

First “Encouter” guests include golfer John Daly, GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswami, Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy and, of course, Kid Rock. Among the “Interview” subjects are former president Donald Trump, UFC head Dana White and Argentine president Javier Milei.

The site offers access for what seems to be a temporarily-discounted rate of $6 a month.

Previously on Saturday: Tucker Carlson announced Saturday that he’s launching a news subscription site, TuckerCarlson.com, where subscribers can gain access to exclusive content.

“Hey, it’s Tucker Carlson. We’ve been out of work for 7 or 8 months now, hard to know. Time flies when you’re unemployed,...

Tucker Carlson is asking fans to fork over $72 for a charter one-year subscription to his new streaming video service — which his site says is “days away” from launching.

Carlson officially announced the direct-to-consumer service, at tuckercarlson.com, in a post Saturday on X (formerly Twitter). After he was fired in April 2023 from Fox News Channel, where he had been a fixture for more than a decade, Carlson has been producing a right-wing talk show distributed on Elon Musk’s X.

“Hey, it’s Tucker Carlson! We’ve been out of work for seven or eight months now. Hard to know, time flies when you’re unemployed,” Carlson says in a video clip promoting his new streaming site. “But actually, we’ve been working in secret and producing an awful lot of material for months now — interviews, et cetera — and all of it has now found its way to tuckercarlson.com.

The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a judge’s ruling that allowed a pregnant woman with a fatal fetal abnormality to have an abortion.

The decision has brought attention to the state’s medical exception to its controversial ban on abortions after six weeks, which is considered one of the strictest in the nation.

The lawsuit was filed by Kate Cox, a 31-year-old woman currently 20 weeks pregnant. Cox sought a temporary block on the state’s abortion ban, as she has been unable to undergo the procedure.

The lawsuit states Cox’s baby has been diagnosed with trisomy 18, a condition that is not expected to allow for more than a few days of survival outside the womb.

After the ruling, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) warned Cox’s physician that she could potentially face civil and criminal penalties if she performed the court-ordered procedure.

Cox’s lawsuit is believed...

A pregnant woman was temporarily blocked from obtaining an emergency abortion by the Texas Supreme Court in a ruling issued Friday evening, CNN reported.

The lower court’s decision was put on hold, and the Court said the case would remain pending. However, a timeline on when a full ruling would be issued was not given.

“Without regard to the merits, the Court administratively stays the district court’s December 7, 2023 order,” the order stated, per CNN. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton had previously requested the high court to reverse a...

Last week, Kate Cox, 20 weeks pregnant and a mother of two, received the worst news a person can get: her baby had a fatal condition known as Trisomy 18. The baby has no chance of survival, but under Texas law, there are only two options available to Cox: a vaginal delivery, or a C-section. Either option would risk her life or her ability to have children in the future.

Because of her two prior C-sections, Cox’s doctors advised her she is at a high risk for a uterine...

After Elon Musk threatened a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters Friday, his company X (formerly Twitter) sued the media watchdog group on Monday for defamation, alleging the non-profit “maliciously” tried to drive away advertisers after it published a report on ads appearing alongside posts featuring antisemitic rhetoric.

”Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers’ posts on X Corp.’s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist fringe content and then portrayed these manufactured images as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform,” X...

According to the one-star Yelp review, Jennifer was five weeks pregnant when she called White Rose Women’s Center in Dallas to schedule an abortion. Her first choice, Planned Parenthood, was booked out several weeks in advance, and she didn’t have much time. Texas had recently passed a law outlawing abortion at roughly six weeks gestation, which is around the time electrical activity in the area where the heart will eventually form can be picked up by an ultrasound.

Online, White Rose advertises itself as an “abortion counseling clinic,...

U.S. Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) thinks his ruby-red home state of Texas is going blue.

Casar spoke about his 2022 campaign, which was featured in the new documentary Texas, U.S.A., with uInterview founder Erik Meers.

“It was a really fast and quick campaign,” Casar recalled. “I was committed to being an Austin city council member, had been working to make sure that people’s homes weren’t lost during the pandemic, make sure that people were able to survive that time of sickness and difficulty for so many people was working on that recovery.”

When the seat opened up in Congress, Casar decided that this “felt like the right moment” as he wanted to speak about “the really big issues facing people across the country, but especially in Texas where abortion was starting to become outlawed.”

During his campaign, abortion was outlawed in Texas right after the state had faced major natural disasters.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted on Saturday of corruption charges, following an articles of impeachment trial which included misconduct, bribery, and corruption allegations.

In May, his fellow party members voted to impeach him, concluding he may have committed numerous crimes and that he abused his position to help his friend and donor Nate Paul, an Austin real estate developer.

Following the 121-23 House vote in May, he was immediately suspended him from office as he awaited trial in the state Senate, where his wife, Angela Paxton, is a member.

It’s Memorial Day weekend, when ostensibly the U.S. puts aside its differences and unites to pay respect to military members who died while serving the country. This weekend, however, a segment of the right wing are freaking out about the impeachment of one of its own, who has demonstrably given enough pause in his alleged conduct that his fellow party members voted he be impeached. The Texas GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday. The Republican Ag was impeached on 20 articles including bribery,...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called for the resignation of House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) after he presided over the house “in an obviously intoxicated state.” Paxton also called for an investigation into the incident.

“Texans were dismayed to witness his performance presiding over the Texas House in a state of apparent debilitating intoxication,” the attorney general wrote in a statement posted to Twitter on Tuesday. “His conduct has negatively impacted the legislative process and constitutes a failure to live up to his duty to the public.”

Paxton also...

Ted Cruz just owned himself on tape. The Texas Senator backed Supreme Court challenges to election results, and in his own state, supported an effort from Attorney General Ken Paxton to have results overturned in four other states. On Jan. 6, Cruz voted against the certification of votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania, and continued to spread claims of fraud long after Biden was sworn into office.

Behind the scenes, however, Cruz was cautioning Trump allies that they would need “specific evidence” of fraud if they wanted to prevail in court. In...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been targeting poll workers with accusations of election crimes and misconduct, according to an investigation released by ProPublica on Wednesday.

Paxton, who is currently running for reelection against Democrat Rochelle Garza, has been granted a broad mandate by GOP legislators in Texas to investigate allegations of electoral misconduct, and has fought for more unilateral authority in pursuing criminal charges.

According to the report, Paxton’s office opened at least 390 cases into allegations of electoral crimes between Jan. 2020 and Sept. 2022, securing only five convictions during that time period.

By the time Donald Trump took the stage in Robstown, Texas on Saturday night, the crowd of Maga-hatted fist-pumpers had already been treated to an afternoon of ranting from a who’s who of usual suspects, including Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan, each tapped to welcome the former president to the Lone Star state in his first public appearance since being formally subpoenaed by Congress just one day earlier.

“Lotta wind!” Trump exclaimed as he took the stage at a the Richard M.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton used his wife as a getaway driver while fleeing his McKinney, Texas, home in an attempt to avoid being served a subpoena related to an abortion lawsuit.

In a sworn affidavit obtained by the Texas Tribune, process server Ernesto Martin Herrera testified that after arriving at Paxton’s home and seeing Paxton through the doorway, Martin Herrera was told by his wife, State Sen. Angela Paxton, that the attorney general “was on the phone” and to leave his card. He then went back to his car and waited.

American laws designed to prevent censorship on social media have suffered numerous defeats in court. On September 16, however, the most notable of those laws picked up an important win. A U.S. Circuit Court has ruled in favor of Hb 20, which aims to prevent platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook from taking any action that would “discriminate against expression.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott worked with the state’s Attorney General, Ken Paxton, to pass Hb 20 last year. The courts have played ping-pong with the edict’s legal status since then. Hb 20 was initially prevented from taking effect via an injunction, but a federal appeals court reversed that decision this past May. In response, a coalition representing several major tech companies rushed the law to the Supreme Court, where a 5-4 majority voted to reinstate the injunction.

Now, two judge on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals have declared that Hb 20 is “constitutionally allowed.

Megan Thee Stallion is not one to stay quiet about issues she cares about. During her Glastonbury Festival performance over the weekend, the rap star slammed the “stupid ass men” who decided to make abortion immediately illegal in her home state of Texas following Scotus’ decision to reverse Roe v. Wade.

“Y’all know it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t take a second to call out these stupid ass men,” she said. “I mean goddamn. What else you want? Texas really embarrassing me now y’all, that’s my home state.

“More families of trans teens sue to stop Texas child abuse investigations” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

For LGBTQ mental health support, call the Trevor Project’s 24/7 toll-free support line at 866-488-7386. You can also reach a trained crisis counselor through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by calling 800-273-8255 or texting 741741.

A new lawsuit filed Wednesday is challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to investigate parents...

San Francisco, June 7 (Ians) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation against micro-blogging site Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Twitter has received intense scrutiny in recent weeks over claiming in its financial regulatory filings that fewer than 5 […]...

A teacher in North Texas received official notice Friday that she’ll be out of a job at the end of the school year after she objected to the school’s removal of pro-lgbtq “safe space” stickers from the school building.

Rachel Stonecipher, a teacher in the Dallas suburb of Irving, found out Friday that her contract at the school would not be renewed. “The Board approved the Administration’s recommendation by a vote of 6-0, with one member absent,” reads the notice. “Based on this action, your probationary Chapter...

Photo: Queer Representation in Media Overview LGBTQ+ youth in the United States risk losing their right to comprehensive health care and education in the states of Florida and Texas. As of February 2022, the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill has passed Florida’s House of Representatives and now moves on to the State Senate. This legislation bans the discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms of kindergarten through third-grade levels, “or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards”. Texas governor, Greg Abbott, in turn, has written a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, urging them to “conduct a prompt and thorough investigation” of reported cases of minors receiving gender-affirming medical care. Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, issued an opinion on the matter stating that allowing minors to receive gender-affirming medical care is constituted as child abuse under state law.

L. remembers exactly what her son was wearing one winter evening nine years ago. She can still see every detail: the blue Angry Birds T-shirt, the black Bakugan hoodie unzipped down the front, the jeans that had once been bedazzled and that still faintly bore the heart-shaped pattern where the plastic jewels had been, the Dr. Who socks — one still on his foot, the other on his bedspread. And the belt. She remembers the belt most of all. It was white and bore images of M&m characters, green and red candies cavorting across its length.