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Ken Paxton

The System Works for Attorney General Ken Paxton. Again.

A court decision this week could be the coup de grâce that finally ends the attorney general’s four-year-old felony case.

by Michael Barajas

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How Tea Partiers Fueled Texas’ Latest ‘Voter Fraud’ Freakout

by Michael Barajas

The Interview: Texas Republican Party Chair James Dickey

by Gus Bova

This Week: In ‘Mother’s Day Massacre,’ Tea Party Caucus Derails 100+ Bills

by Kolten Parker

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

Louie Gohmert Aug 09, 2013

Go, Go, Go Gohmert!

by Eileen Smith

Apr 05, 2013

Conservative Veterans Slap Down Tea Party Freshmen In Budget Fight

by Liz Farmer

Catherine Engelbrecht Jan 23, 2013

King Street Patriots to Get More Neighborly, More Partisan for 2014

by Patrick Michels

Dec 28, 2012

Don’t Tell Gregg Abbott, But He Put Out a Report Laying Waste to ‘State Sovereignty’ Cause

by Forrest Wilder

National Tea-Party Refuge Dec 17, 2012

National Tea Party Refuge

by Ben Sargent

Is Poll-Watching Voter Suppression? Greg Abbott Says, ‘No—Wait, Yes!’

by Jo DePrang

Feb 08, 2010

Tempest In a Tea Cup

by Brandon Thibodeaux

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