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Breaking: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said gun stores are essential businesses and should be allowed to remain open during the #COVID19 pandemic. bit.ly/33XrNrC
Paxton said in his nonbinding opinion that state law prevents cities and counties from "adopting regulations related to the transfer, possession, or ownership of firearms, or commerce in firearms." bit.ly/33XrNrC
Essential workers and businesses are allowed and sometimes required by the government to stay open during an emergency.

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In a radio interview this week, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said gun stores and places that sell ammunition are essential businesses because if there's a "break down of society" people need to be able to defend themselves. bit.ly/33XrNrC
Gyl Switzer, the executive director of Texas Gun Sense, said guns are not essential to Texas' pandemic response. bit.ly/33XrNrC
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Breaking: A Texas-based industrial supplier tried to broker a sale of up to 2 million protective medical masks at six times the usual price.

Critics say a price like that at a time like this smacks of profiteering and price gouging. bit.ly/3bHRkHE
2/ Industrial supplier Hatfield and Company said it did not mark up the product ‘excessively’ nor engage in price gouging.

They said their own supplier set the “terms and conditions” for the sale.

They would not identify the supplier. bit.ly/3bHRkHE
3/ A company salesperson said a "group of doctors" has the masks spread around locations in Texas and other states, but did not elaborate.

The company president said he had "no way of knowing ... the veracity” of that claim. bit.ly/3bHRkHE
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1/ A consequence of the new coronavirus: Child abuse is likely on the rise.

Families are stuck at home, confronting stress and fear.

And schools and day care centers are closed, so child welfare workers can't rely on teachers to help detect abuse.

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2/ Between late February and mid-March, hotline tips to @TexasDFPS fell from 11,179 a week to 9,344.

But child welfare advocates say that decline belies a grim reality: more Texas children are likely suffering from unreported abuse.
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3/ Under the stress of #COVID19, abusers are more prone to violence. But it's harder to spot injured children with schools closed.

So Texas' child welfare workers are forced to decide: Risk a child’s safety and cancel in-person visits, or risk their own?
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New: Some U.S. House members from Texas rushed to the U.S. Capitol and urgently passed into law a massive spending bill aimed toward mitigating the health and economic impact of #COVID19. bit.ly/2JkuY30
The bill is estimated to cost taxpayers over $2 trillion with the goals of reinforcing the medical response to the pandemic, keeping businesses afloat long enough to avoid more layoffs and bolstering liquidity in the market. bit.ly/2JkuY30
The bill will direct payments to individual Americans and will deliver loans to distressed businesses affected by the virus outbreak: small businesses, large corporations and airlines.

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Last month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's (R) office made a striking claim: The "sheer number" of voter fraud prosecutions it has brought in the last year is evidence that voter fraud is a problem in Texas. big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2…
Since early 2018, Paxton's office has brought 33 cases. His office frequently touts this statistic to show an escalating crackdown on election fraud in Texas. e.g. texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/…
.@dliebelson and I set out to find out what exactly happened in these 33 cases. We found that 30 of them were resolved with what's called a prosecution diversion agreement. These agreements are used when a prosecutor thinks a case is minor and/or they don't have a strong case
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1/ #CNP Members and Organizations
"The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a body that mixes large numbers of ostensibly mainstream conservatives with far-right and extremist ideologues, mostly from the far fringes of the religious right...
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According to Chuck Todd, host of @MTPDaily, this tweet is a “tell” that Donald Trump is panicked about the effort from 18 Republican Attorneys General to challenge the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in court▶️seeking to end protections for those with pre-existing conditions. #LieGate
⚡️It’s certainly not a good look for Republicans less than 3 weeks from the November Election.

▶️Neither is talking about separating more children from their parents and putting them in cages
▶️Neither is talking about stripping Social Security & Medicare programs
▶️Neither is protecting the murderers of a respected journalist, then using money as the reason and inflating the numbers while you’re doing it

🔗Link to lawsuit against the ACA:

google.com/amp/s/thehill.…
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Fun facts about our Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton.

on August 3, 2015, in Paxton's first year in office, he became the first Texas Attorney General in 32 years to be indicted.

He still hasn't gone to trial, and it's not supposed to start until after the 2018 election.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton has been under indictment since 2015 for three felony charges- 2 for securities fraud and 1 for failing to register with securities regulators.

The punishment is up to life in prison and yet he hasn't spent a day in prison yet.

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Paxton's lawyers have tried to undermine the case by cutting the fees paid to the prosecutors.

Several lawsuits filed by Paxton's friend and campaign donor were also unsuccessful at cutting the prosecutors' pay.

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