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NEWS: @jmartNYT says former President George W. Bush will not support the reelection of @realDonaldTrump nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/po… #tx2020
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Weaver was chief strategist for Huntsman presidential campaign in 2012 nitter.app/JWGOP/status/101889459…
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No way @JohnCornyn talks abt @realDonaldTrump like this unless (1) he thinks the president is an albatross, (2) he thinks the president may very well lose, and (3) he thinks he — Cornyn — is in the kind of could-lose race that requires him to publicly consciously uncouple #tx2020
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NEW @dallasnews @UTTyler poll of Texas likely voters:
@joebiden 48
@realDonaldTrump 45
9 days out, folks
👀👀👀 #tx2020 dallasnews.com/news/politics…
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NEW from @eklib: A 16-year trans boy tried to kill himself after investigations of families ordered. He was admitted to psych facility. When staff learned he was undergoing hormone therapy, they turned his family in for child abuse texastribune.org/2022/06/08/… #txlege #tx2022
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Seriously — can every single person in the press, not just in Florida, call bullshit on this? We’re in a crisis. Stop playing games miamiherald.com/news/politic…
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we are now up to three foiled plots to kidnap governors in 2020. sure, everything’s normal
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That may be the best @joebiden speech I’ve ever heard. It’s gonna be a hell of a general election
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.@nytimes: At urging of @BetoORourke, @joebiden dispatching @KamalaHarris to campaign in Texas in coming days nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/po… #txlege #tx2020
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.@ProjectLincoln believes hidden hand caused @UTAustin to pull ad critical of @GovAbbott set to air on @LonghornNetwork during yesterday’s Texas-Rice game #txlege
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NEW tonight: @fire_ted_cruz PAC ad, directed by Richard Linklater piped.video/watch?time_conti…
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Gregg Popovich goes off on @realDonaldTrump — hits @POTUS for “cowardice” in leaving DC during #MarchForOurLives: “A real indication of how much he really cares about anything other than feeding his insatiable ego.” newsweek.com/donald-trump-co…
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.@wsj: Texas electric bills were $28B higher under deregulation #yeahthatsaysbillion #txlege wsj.com/articles/texas-elect…
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A torpedo from the ousted Navy Secretary: “@POTUS @realDonaldTrump has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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New @Civiqs poll in Texas for @dailykos:
@realDonaldTrump 48, @JoeBiden 48
@JohnCornyn 47, @mjhegar 46
civiqs.com/documents/Civiqs_… #tx2020 #txsen #txlege
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INBOX: @GovAbbott slams @JoeBiden @POTUS for providing baby formula to undocumented immigrants during a national shortage #txlege #tx2022
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.@texastribune has found **seven more** GOP county chairs in Texas who shared George Floyd conspiracy theories or racist/anti-Semitic memes — great reporting by @naomiandu @ceproctor23 texastribune.org/2020/06/05/… #txlege #tx2020
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INBOX: @BetoORourke raised a little more than $25m. @GovAbbott raised a little less than $25m. @BetoORourke had nearly 475,000 contributions. @GovAbbott had nearly 45,000 contributors #txgov #tx2022
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NEW and wowza from @patricksvitek: @betorourke raised $27.6M from 2/20 to 6/30 — the most to date of any candidate in any race in any reporting period in the history of Texas texastribune.org/2022/07/15/… #txlege #tx2022
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Final @ppppolls poll of Texas:
@joebiden 50
@realDonaldTrump 48
#tx2020 #txlege #txsen publicpolicypolling.com/wp-c…
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Reminder that is a GOP-led effort to impeach @KenPaxtonTX, and the committee that brought the articles is chaired by Coke Stevenson’s grandson. Not a Democrat. Not the media. Don’t be distracted #txlege texastribune.org/2023/05/27/…
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fundraising email from @KenPaxtonTX. the state needs to be turned around? who’s been running it? #txlege #tx2022
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.@BetoORourke on MSNBC, no bleep and no tape delay: “I’m so fucking proud of you guys” #txsen
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NEW from @eklib: Big $ GOP political donors in Texas — including Harlan Crow, Ray Hunt, and Bob Rowling — have signed an open letter urging red flag laws, expanded background checks and raising the age to purchase a gun to 21 texastribune.org/2022/06/04/… #txlege #tx2022
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**Why did this happen?** Texas leaders failed to heed warnings that left state's power grid vulnerable to winter extremes, experts say. An absolute must-read from @McGeeReports @erinmdouglas23 @jsmccullou texastribune.org/2021/02/17/… #txlege
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.@tedcruz suggests @BetoORourke campaign funding the caravan. That’s quite a charge four days out. Facts to back it up? #txsen
Two basic Qs every reporter should ask Beto today: (1) should the “caravan” be allowed to cross illegally into Texas? (Beto refuses to answer.) And (2) did your campaign dollars illegally fund their doing so? redstate.com/brandon_morse/2…
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If @GovAbbott told every Texan, stay at home for 21 days or else no college football this fall, compliance problems go poof #txlege
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Gee, I wish @BretStephensNYT would tell us what he really thinks about @tedcruz nytimes.com/2018/09/25/opini… #txsen
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Via FB, POETUS news from Trump biographer and my fellow @texasmonthly alumnus @harryhurtiii
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Some of the many, many stories about the storm on @texastribune's homepage right now. This is journalism in the public interest. Amazing work by our tireless staff texastribune.org #txlege
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Already national Rs are calling Beto “Robert Francis,” as if he just adopted his nickname to run for office. Been there, done that, got the sweater #tx2020
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.@playbookdc has pic of @SecYellen ordering a @Whataburger near the Austin airport. It is officially @texastribune Festival week #txlege
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.@sxsw getting cancelled is the holy shit moment of holy shit moments
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For a bunch of reasons anyone who worked for me and tweeted this tonight would be looking for a new job tomorrow
Woman who has sex on camera for $ says Trump propositioned her. "This is not acceptable behavior." Please. washex.am/2dZ77oe
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I will fight for the excessive use of em dashes to my death and everyone else’s
.@ProPublica’s standards editor, @dsorbara, sent this to the staff today with the reminder, “Don’t jilt other punctuation.” 🏆👏
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NEW from @reeseoxner: Since @GovAbbott lifted the state’s mask mandate, conferences coming to Austin started cancelling. The Austin Hilton alone has lost $350,000 in revenue texastribune.org/2021/03/25/… #txlege
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NEW and wowza from @zachdespart: Investigators detail years of alleged misconduct by @txag @KenPaxtonTX in stunning House committee hearing #txlege texastribune.org/2023/05/24/…
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Per @axios, the median rent in Austin increased by more than 86% from last summer to this summer + the city is now the fifth-most expensive metro area in the country axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #txlege #tx2022
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i realize you don’t like the guy, but how do you not stand for cutting a child poverty in half?
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.@sxsw cancelled one month ago today. Feels like one thousand years ago
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This is crap. Media has been in harm’s way all week. Proud of @neenareports @KiahCollier @brandonformby and countless others #txlege
Trump visits w/Harvey survivors, throws in dig at the media (media's been there for days, not parachuting in today)
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#breaking from @eklib: According to a court record, Texas Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX fled his home to avoid being served with a subpoena texastribune.org/2022/09/26/… #txlege #tx2022
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PSA: The last day to register to vote in Texas is this Monday, October 5. Vote like your life depends on it #itdoes
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I can’t stress how aggressively apolitical — absent of even a whiff of partisanship — McRaven was while he was chancellor of @utsystem. The suggestion he might one day consider a run for office seemed to nauseate him. This letter is shocking in its balls-out pointedness #txlege
He oversaw the raid that killed bin Laden. Now he wants Trump to revoke his security clearance. Read William H. McRaven's letter. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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.@longhornderek: 4.6M of the 9.7M Texans who voted early have *no previous primary history* — so there’s no way of predicting who they voted for mcusercontent.com/d3064a2fad… #txlege #tx2020 #txsend
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.@nytimes: Texas Rs now discussing legislation to allow DAs to prosecute people involved in abortions in neighboring counties and criminally punish anyone who helps a woman get an abortion in another state nytimes.com/2022/06/25/us/po… #txlege #tx2022
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#breaking from @ragajus: @utaustin @TexasFootball players won’t recruit or do donor events unless school renames buildings named after racist figures, donates to Black Lives Matter, and retires “The Eyes of Texas” texastribune.org/2020/06/12/… #txlege
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In an email to @texastribune’s @ragajus, George W. Bush spox @kyfredchicken denies @nytimes report: "This is completely made up. He is retired from presidential politics and has not indicated how he will vote.” texastribune.org/2020/06/06/…
NEWS: @jmartNYT says former President George W. Bush will not support the reelection of @realDonaldTrump nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/po… #tx2020
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THREAD: Today is my last day as CEO of @TexasTribune. We did it. We got here — to the point of successfully handing this place off to a dynamic new leader. @sonalrshah will guide our team and this org to and through a bright future #txlege
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INBOX: @GovAbbott says @JoeBiden only “partially” approved Texas request for disaster declaration. Wanted individual assistance in 254 counties, got it in 77 counties #txlege
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NEW University of Texas/@texastribune poll: 52% of Texans would definitely not or probably not vote to re-elect @POTUS @realdonaldtrump
texastribune.org/2020/02/14/…
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Ivanka Trump is vacationing with Putin’s girlfriend? It's the you-can’t-make-this-shit-up campaign of all time people.com/article/ivanka-tr…
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In ten days, @texastribune will be in business for ten years. In ten million years I never would have believed we’d make it this far
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NEW from @alexazura: In sworn statement, retiring GOP state senator @kseliger says Texas violated voting rights law during redistricting texastribune.org/2022/01/26/… #txlege #tx2022
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As you know, my friend, we run a profitable newsroom here in TX — of nonprofit variety. $9.1M in revenue — up 18% over previous yr — and spent less than we took in. Audience up 37%. Sustainable, replicable model. And solving problem at local level — where we need to most #txlege
What if there is literally no profitable model for digital news? Or none that actually scales and endures without, say, the established readership base and brand of the NYT. This seems...increasingly likely to me?
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A story that will get no attention today, but man oh man oh man nytimes.com/live/2020/10/02/…
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.@nytimes: “Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.” nyti.ms/2LyhO1C?smid=nytcore…
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.@billmcraven: Idea that news media is enemy of American people "may be greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime" dailytexanonline.com/2017/02…
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What we learned today-slash-what we already knew: Everybody in Texas is dying to vote #facts
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.@rossramsey: The nine judges on the Texas Supreme Court, socially distancing themselves to avoid the #coronavirus, told voters that the pandemic doesn’t give them a legal basis for voting by mail. Yes, you read that right texastribune.org/2020/05/29/… #txlege
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.@FiveThirtyEight polling average today — 15 days before election — has @realDonaldTrump leading @JoeBiden in Texas by 1.3 points. Closest margin in the state’s history was Humphrey over Nixon in 1968: just under 1.3 points #manohman
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.@spurs coach Gregg Popovich hits back at @POTUS: “feckless, impotent, cowardly” espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2783…
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High turnout elections are, generally speaking, bad for the party in power. As @rossramsey likes to say, anger is a greater motivator than joy at election time
#tx2020
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Holy crap: @dallasnews endorses @HillaryClinton. Paper had not backed Democrat since before World War II dallasnews.com/opinion/edito…
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oh god — it took me until halftime to realize this is the @BarbMcQuade vs. @JoyceWhiteVance citrus bowl
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30 years ago tonight, I pulled into Austin and checked in at the Radisson at 7th and Brazos. My new job at @TexasMonthly would begin after the holidays. Best thing I remember that week was a New Year’s Eve party at my pal @DraperRobert’s. Moving to Texas changed my life 🤠
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Best part is, he said it at @politico event. Politico blocked today
FLASHBACK: @seanspicer in Dec. says Trump WH won't ban specific media outlets. "That's what makes a democracy a democracy vs a dictatorship"
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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/… #txlege #tx2020
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🚨 Today I let my colleagues know that 2022 — my 30th year in journalism in Texas — will be my last as @texastribune’s CEO. There’s never a good time to leave a job you love, but there’s a right time. This is the right time for me and for us texastribune.org/2022/01/12/… #txlege
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THREAD 👇
Today is @texastribune’s ninth birthday. We launched on November 3, 2009. No one, including and especially the seventeen of us on staff on the first day, knew this would work. It did. Tons to celebrate 🎂🎉
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NEW from @nytimes: Top @realDonaldTrump campaign aide sought online manipulation plans from an Israeli firm to help defeat @tedcruz in 2016 GOP primary race nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/po…
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If you’re maklng voters at an HBCU wait seven hours to vote, you’re practically begging to be accused of voter suppression #tx2020
The last voter at Texas Southern University has walked out of the voting booth. It took Hervis Rogers nearly 7 hours to vote tonight. #supertuesday2020
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The Attorney General of Texas @TXAG @KenPaxtonTX claims on Facebook this morning: "Those who stormed the capitol yesterday were not @realDonaldTrump supporters. They have been confirmed to be Antifa” **There is no evidence of this** #txlege
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There is no way 2014 me/anyone would have believed this picture wasn’t photoshopped
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