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    Perhaps it’s because of how Amanda Gorman alluded to the Jan. 6 attack in her famous poem, finished the night after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol: “We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it.” Or maybe she wrote too bluntly about race and the legacy of slavery: “We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised ...

      Here we go again. A qualified, conservative, likable Republican gets into the GOP presidential primary against Donald Trump. And then so does another one, and another, and another until eventually, the race becomes a blob of Donald Trump vs. everyone else. We saw that movie before in 2016 and the sequel continued Monday as U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina threw his hat into the ring for ...

        Just when you thought that she could not get any more disingenuous and despicable, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene engaged in some wild intellectual dishonesty by accusing New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of calling her the equivalent of the N-word. She also accused him of being “physicall…

        Those afraid that the 2024 GOP presidential contest will become a repeat of 2016 need not worry. The race is radically different this year; it will not play out the same. First, former president Donald Trump is greatly diminished compared to 2015, when he first glided down his escalator in front of all those paid “volunteers.” Second, the rest of next year’s budding GOP candidates are ...

        A large field of qualified candidates is setting up the Republican primaries for a repeat of 2016. No one expected political neophyte Donald Trump to suck up all of the oxygen in the 2016 Republican primaries when the party had one of the most qualified slates of candidates in recent memory. Sitting U.S. senators, popular current and former governors from important swing states, and a former ...

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        Shame on Duane Peters, Chuck Konderla and Wanda Watson, who have no idea the harm theyhave done to the veterans of Brazos County by dismissing Pat Patterson.

        Attorney General Ken Paxton, Gov. Greg Abbott and the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature are engaged in a war against trans individuals and their families for nothing more than political purposes.

        I would like to thank Reps. Kyle Kacal and John Raney for their support of public schools and against Gov. Greg Abbott's continued push for Education Savings Accounts. 

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