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Conservatives go to great lengths to hide how much being anti-abortion is about forcing all Americans to live by the religious tenets of the white evangelical minority. Indeed, Republicans will often try to pretend "science" is motivating abortion bans, a ...[Read more]
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"This new law will make abortion unsafe and deadly, and create a whole new set of risks for women and girls." ...[Read more]
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With Covid-19 surging across the state, Texas has requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government in anticipation of an influx of dead bodies, state officials told NBC News.
The mortuary trailers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...[Read more]
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After hours of passionate debate about how Texas teachers can instruct school children about America's history of subjugating people of color, the state Senate early Saturday morning advanced a new version of a controversial bill aimed at banning critical ...[Read more]
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Ted Cruz’s “let them eat cake” vacation to Cancun was a visible reminder of the cruelty of our political system — a system that rewards politicians propped up by corporate money, right-wing lies, and racist ideologies for blaming others and evadin ...[Read more]
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Many Texans have died because of the winter storm — just how many won’t be known for weeks or months
Across Texas, deaths related to the winter storm continued to mount this week amid freezing temperatures, widespread power outages and a scarcity of clean water. While there have been reports that dozens of deaths are tied to the storm in Texas, experts s ...[Read more]
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While Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was dealing with an embarrassing public relations disaster of his own making — flying to Cancún, Mexico, with his family while his home state was reeling from blackouts and water shutdowns amid frigid temperatures — his ...[Read more]
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While citizens of Texas are facing a crisis of massive proportions brought on largely by the failures of natural gas companies to weatherize their equipment, one natural gas company, owned by Dallas billionaire and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, is cas ...[Read more]
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While millions of Texans were coping with freezing temperatures without heat, electricity or running water this week, right-wing media pundits repeatedly claimed that green energy was to blame. And although the lie was debunked, that didn't prevent pundit ...[Read more]
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An 11-year-old boy died on Tuesday in an unheated mobile home in Texas that had lost power during a massive winter storm. His family and officials suspect he had hypothermia.
Cristian Pavon was one of at least 30 people in Texas who died this week as tem ...[Read more]
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Millions of people in Texas were plunged into freezing cold and darkness as a major winter storm overwhelmed the stateâs power grid. More than 12 million Texans face water disruptions and have been ordered to boil tap water for safe consumption, and ...[Read more]
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