Scoop: Cornyn flexes fundraising muscle in McConnell succession race via Stef Kight axios.com/2024/04/28/joh… #txlege #tx2024

Texas approval ratings of the U.S. Supreme Court (February 2024 UT Austin / The Texas Politics Project Poll) texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/us-supreme… #txlege #Tx2024 #SCOTUS

A look at a couple of Texas poll results on US policy in Israel & Israel's response to the October 7 attacks, broken down by age cohorts, via Dec 2023 The Texas Politics Project polling. More: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/polling/search…

'The announcement was seemingly spur-of-the-moment. “I shouldn’t have said that,” Ellison told Frist, a longtime health-care industry veteran who represented Tennessee in the Senate. ' cnb.cx/3JxvFoE #ATX #Txlege

Tesla’s Profit Fell 55%, Adding to Concerns About Its Strategy via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/04/23/bus…

Texans' views on U.S. Involvement in Ukraine, April 2022 to December 2023 texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/view-us-in… via The Texas Politics Project

As the House approaches a showdown on U.S. aid to Ukraine & Israel: Texas partisans' views of the U.S. role in the world illuminate the roiled politics of U.S. foreign policy from February, via The Texas Politics Project texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/texas-par… #tx2024

In a new Second Reading podcast, Jim Henson & Joshua M. Blank look at the context of the 'Contract for Texas,' and note new polling on the presidential & U.S. Senate races in Texas. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/second-re… #txlege #Tx2024

Snapshot of the decline of human civilization axios.com/newsletters/ax… #axiospm

Statement from President Joe Biden on CHIPS and Science Act Preliminary Agreement with Samsung - “The agreement includes an existing site in Austin and a new chip manufacturing hub nearby in Taylor, Texas.” #txlege #tx2024 whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

“Maverick County purchased the trailer during the pandemic to handle covid-19 victims. It was designed to hold 20 bodies but on this day held 28 …” #txlege washingtonpost.com/nation/interac…

As Senate race heats up, Ted Cruz pitches himself as the better bipartisan via Matthew Choi texastribune.org/2024/04/10/ted…

FN: trends in Ted Cruz job approval in Texas by party, via The Texas Politics Project: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/ted-cruz-j… #tx2024 #Txlege

Changing Partisan Coalitions in a Politically Divided Nation via Pew Research Center pewrsr.ch/49v1YPB

Biden's 2024 goody bags: Laws pump billions into Republican and swing states axios.com/2024/04/05/bid… via Axios #txlege #Tx2024

Texas Sec. of State Secretary Jane Nelson, a former GOP state senator appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, says reports of mass voter registration w/o photo ID are 'totally inaccurate.' She notes that TX has added ~58K new voters since start of '24 — far less than 1.2M figure promoted by Elon Musk

Good thread, ICYMI.
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In a new Second Reading podcast, Joshua M. Blank & I take a look at the presidential election in Texas as it stands now, and look at how Feb 2020 data on that race compares to data 4 years later. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/second-re… #txlege #Tx2024

I had an uncle who passed recently, and he owned one of the largest Star Trek collections in the country (USA). This is 4 of over 90 pictures required to document 3+ entire rooms stacked with nothing but #startrek pls share it around, I want to give it a good home.

Ken Paxton job approval trend among Texas Democrats texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/ken-paxton… via The Texas Politics Project #txlege #tx2024

Ken Paxton job approval trend among Texas Republicans (April 2021 to February 2024) texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/ken-paxton… via The Texas Politics Project #txlege #Tx2024