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UT/TT poll: Slight majority of Texans — incl. 1 in 4 Rs — think gun laws should be more strict texastribune.org/2019/11/05/tex… #txlege
UT/TT poll: 81% of Texans, including 74% of Rs and 73% of indies, support background checks for all gun purchases texastribune.org/2019/11/05/tex… #txlege
UT/TT poll: 68% of Texans, including a majority of Rs, support red flag laws texastribune.org/2019/11/05/tex… #txlege
UT/TT poll: 59% of Texans, including 35% of Rs, would ban the sale of assault weapons texastribune.org/2019/11/05/tex… #txlege
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NEW UT/TT POLL: 46% of Texans say congressional impeachment investigations of @POTUS @realdonaldtrump are justified — including 84% of Ds, 13% of Rs, 46% of indies. 42% say not justified texastribune.org/2019/11/01/tex… #txlege #tx2020
@POTUS @realDonaldTrump NEW UT/TT POLL: 43% of Texans say @POTUS @realdonaltrump’s actions merit early removal from office — including 79% of Ds, 12% of Rs, 34% of indies. 44% say don’t merit texastribune.org/2019/11/01/tex… #txlege #tx2020
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THREAD: On the first day of early voting in Texas, a few civic-minded goodies from your friends at @texastribune👇
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@TexasTribune From @AlexSamuelsx5 @rdmurphy: Everything you need to know about casting a ballot in Texas in the 2018 midterms apps.texastribune.org/features/2018/…
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@TexasTribune @AlexSamuelsx5 @rdmurphy From @rdmurphy: Every single candidate on the ballot in Texas in statewide, congressional, legislative and State Board of Education races apps.texastribune.org/features/2018/…
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1/ As the political fights have played out over Austin’s homelessness policies, homeless Texans have been caught in the crossfire.

Hear their stories in this thread. #txlege

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2/ Texas will begin forcing homeless residents out from under state overpasses in Austin on Monday.

Gilbert Jones — who lives under an overpass in Austin with his pregnant wife — said he is trying to clean up trash nearby in hopes of changing minds. bit.ly/2PFV4SB
3/ Gilbert Jones: “Really, you're killing me because we don't have nowhere to go. I mean, it's affecting me because what are we going to do? Where are we going to stay?” bit.ly/2PFV4SB
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It's estimated that 40% of Texas households own guns - the most per capita. Yet Texas has also had the most mass shootings in the US since 2009. Despite data proving otherwise, Texas lawmakers believe EVEN MORE GUNS is the solution to school gun violence. texastribune.org/2019/05/21/tex…
Last month, a police officer at a Mesquite high school unintentionally discharged his gun. In Milwaukee, a student was grazed by a bullet after an employee's gun discharged. In St. Paul, a student found a gun in a bathroom an employee had left unattended. star-telegram.com/news/local/cri…
Even Texas police oppose guns in schools. The Southlake Police Chief called guns in the hands of teachers a “nightmare situation,” citing the fact that even the best police officers see their accuracy decrease when trying to fight an armed suspect. star-telegram.com/news/local/com…
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Trump: Day 706
-Day 6 of the #TrumpShutdown
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Day 662 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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The campaign finance site owned by Empower Texans did a look back at the 2018 elections on 12/18/18. The question they asked was “Who’s Really Buying Texas?”
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The site (again, owned by ET) pushes this “Context matters” point, but then provide a fairly skewed context. They mashed all of the dollars spent in campaigns into one massive bucket. Then they point to themselves and say “see, we didn’t give that much”.
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By rolling everything up together, they obfuscate the reality that a handful of large donor groups DOMINATE the political landscape in certain races. It’s not the everyday Texans that drive our politics.
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Texas School Finance Commission chair Scott Brister as meeting starts: "We have one more month before we turn into a pumpkin."
Commission is supposed to come out with recommendations by end of Dec. #txlege #txed
Brister: No quorum for next week bc of "holiday season" absences. School finance commission will have "several meetings" in mid-Dec and report is due Dec. 31.
Proposes having a small group put reports from all three workgroups together.
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Brister: "As much as possible we would like the report to be unanimous" to recommend to #txlege.
Might need to include a "menu of options," in order of priority. #txed
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Midterms are done, at least as far as contribution to campaigns are concerned. There have been several looks at spending by the far right groups, specifically Empower Texans. I think they are seeing part of the picture, but not the whole enchilada. This will be the enchilada.
When I define ET World, it's three categories of donors to Texas elections
The first category of donor in ET World is
(ET) = Empower Texans PAC, Texans For Fiscal Responsibility PAC, and Texas Right To Life PAC
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Continuing the levels of ET World
The second category of donor is
(ET9) = The 9 largest donors to the Empower Texans PAC.
These 9 donors make up 97% of the ET PAC, 96% of the TFFR PAC, and 78% of TRL. This overwhelming funding to the 3 PACs is why all three are flagged as ET
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