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Dan Patrick

Reefer Madness Returns to Texas with Dan Patrick’s THC Ban

If the governor signs SB 3 into law, thousands of jobs and billions in revenue could soon disappear.

by Kit O'Connell

Keep Reading

Legislature Mandates Sheriff-ICE Cooperation in Jails or Streets

by Francesca D’Annunzio and Gus Bova

Texas House Passes Raft of Dan Patrick Priorities Imposing Conservative Mandates on Public Ed

by Joelle DiPaolo

Abbott’s Bail Crackdown Meets Mixed Fate in Texas House

by Michelle Pitcher

Senate Education Committee chair Dan Patrick (R-Houston) Feb 12, 2014

Why Julian Castro and Dan Patrick Should Debate

by Christopher Hooks

Sen. Dan Patrick Feb 03, 2014

Republicans Practicing ‘Bad Religion’ in Abortion Debate

by Forrest Wilder

Comptroller Glenn Hegar Jan 31, 2014

WTF Friday: ‘Freedom’ Is Just Another Name for Automatic Weapons

by Forrest Wilder

Four candidates for lt. gov. Jan 29, 2014

The Deepening Extremism in the Lieutenant Governor Primary

by Forrest Wilder

Jan 24, 2014

WTF Friday: Evolution, Or Something Like It

by Patrick Michels

Sen. Dan Patrick Oct 11, 2013

WTF Friday, Inaugural Edition: Beautiful Women on Tall Stools

by Forrest Wilder

Four candidates for lt. gov. Sep 04, 2013

God’s Man in the Texas Senate

by Forrest Wilder

Crowd at the CSCOPE debate at UT Tyler Aug 25, 2013

Dan Patrick and Thomas Ratliff Slug it Out Over CSCOPE

by Olivia Messer

Jeanine McGregor leads a CSCOPE presentation. Aug 16, 2013

Adios, Reality: Texas Culture Wars Take a Madcap Turn

How a curriculum planning tool called CSCOPE came to fixate the Texas Tea Party.

by Patrick Michels

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