Daily Headlines

-Paxton Appeals Federal Court Order Blocking ActBlue Lawsuit -Winnsboro ISD Keeps Arrested Trustee as School Board President -UNT Regents Decline To Discuss Critical Race Theorist Provost, Extend Records Suppression Period

-Energy Secretary Chris Wright Celebrates ‘American Energy Comeback’ in Permian Basin -Paxton Bars More Than 110 Cities From Raising Taxes Over Audit Failures -Plano ISD Fires Principal Accused of Failing to Report Sex Abuse

-A-F Ratings Released by Texas Education Agency -Houston Voters To Decide on Marijuana Enforcement, No-Knock Warrant Ban This November -Senator Calls for Pause on All 765-kV Transmission Line Projects

-Election Integrity Law That Sent Texas Democrats Fleeing Wins Again in Court -UT’s New Core Curriculum Set for Full Rollout in 2028 -Texas Senators Examine Growing Cartel Drone Threat Along Southern Border

-Talarico’s Gender Mutilation Record Comes Under Fire in Texas Senate Race -Fort Worth City Council Issues Moratorium on New Data Centers -Trial Begins in Case of Former Granbury City Council Candidate

-Report: Local Government Spending Outpaces Population, Inflation Across Texas -UT System Poised To Approve Tenure for Professor Arrested as Part of Anti-Israel Protests -More Charges for Magnolia Teacher Accused of Molesting Students

-Talarico Says His Church Housed Illegal Aliens Facing ICE Deportation -New Texas Secretary of State Maintains Opposition to Closed Primary Lawsuit -Harris County Judge Declines To Block Texas Ten Commandments Classroom Law

-New Secretary of State Must Decide Whether to Keep Fighting Closed Primaries -Constable Salaries Reach $305,000 as Harris County Faces Growing Deficit -Weatherford ISD Teacher Charged With Sexual Misconduct

-Old Divisions Fade as Republicans Rally Around Paxton -Abbott Announces New SpaceX Factory in Grimes County -Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Challenge to Texas Handgun Trespass Sign Laws

-McKinney Approves Mosque Amid Citizen Concerns -Immigrant Criminal Denaturalized in Texas District Court -Public Utility Commissioners Schedule Meetings on 765-kV Lines After Lawmakers Demand Project Pause

-Can Your HOA Ban Political Yard Signs? Here's What the Law Says  -Democrat Artist-Turned-Candidate's Studio Hosts ‘All Ages’ LGBT Events -Deported Honduran Man Sues Houston Over ICE-Related Traffic Stop Detention

-Don Huffines Sworn In as Texas Comptroller, Vows Aggressive Audits -Texas’ School Choice Program Has Nation's Largest Waiting List -Parents Sue Plano ISD for Teacher’s Sexual Abuse of Student

-Abbott Unveils Housing Affordability Proposals, Says Data Centers Don’t Belong in Neighborhoods -Patrick, Schwertner Call on PUC To Reject Controversial 765-kV Transmission Applications -Harris County Considers AI Cameras for Jail

-Federal Judge Strikes Down Houston’s Race-Based Contracting Program -Lizard Litigation Ends With Endangered Species Status Reversed  -Houston ISD Has Yet To Reconcile Contradictory Stance on Graphic Conten

-Republican AG Candidate Mayes Middleton Pledges Texas Investigation of Anthony Fauci -Waller County GOP Presses for Restrictions on Flock Cameras -Pro-Transmission Coalition Allies With Left-Wing Association To Push Controversial 765-kV Lines

-Shelley Luther Draws Texas GOP’s Top Leaders to Massive Sherman Rally -Baytown Officer Under Investigation for Alleged Flock Camera Misuse -New Rainfall Delays Corpus Christi Water Emergency

-Talarico Said Islamic Mystics Shaped His Faith As Much As Christians -Religious Liberty, Online Safety Among Senate’s Latest Interim Charges -Next Controversial Transmission Line Segment Up for Public Utility Commissioners’ Decision

-Regulators Begin Making Data Centers Pay Their Own Way After Abbott Directive -Texas Congressman Files Legislation To Disincentivize Birth Tourism -Clinics Accused of Illegal Abortions May Continue Operations, Court Rules

-Who Gave Permission? Texans Question Flock Surveillance Ahead of Session -Developer Withdraws Henderson County Data Center Plan Following Gov. Abbott Directives -University of Houston Poised To Eliminate 40 Percent of Core Curriculum

-Lawmakers Ask Public Utility Commission to Pause 765-kV Project Until After 2027 Legislative Session -Trucker Pleads Guilty After Admitting To Hauling Illegal Aliens Instead of Carrots -Italian Court Demands Formal Death Penalty Waiver in Harris County Murder Case

-Abbott Orders State Agencies to Investigate Birth Tourism Schemes -Black Democrats Press Talarico on Outreach as Candidate Defends ‘Repairing Past Harms’ -Democrat Harris County Judge Nominee Accused of Seven Campaign Finance Violations

-Texas Republican Lawmakers Reject Mexican Senator’s ‘Lectures’ on Border Security -Inside the “Fake, Profane” Complaints Sent to Texas’ Higher Education Ombudsman -Sharia ‘Already Here,’ Speaker Tells Plano Mosque Open House

-Gov. Abbott Appoints Robert Howden as Secretary of State -Fort Bend County Grand Jury Indicts Arcola Mayor on Five Felonies -Fort Worth Weighs Data Center Pause as Zoning Rules Sent Back to Council

-AG Paxton Backs Congressional Resolution Affirming States’ Rights To Defend the Border -US Rep. Self Proposes Legislation To Limit Automated License Plate Readers Reach -Sea Drone Company Saronic Announces $3.2 Billion Texas Shipyard

-Austin Unveils Its Latest Record-Setting Budget -Agency Refers Alleged Birth Tourism Scheme to Attorney General -National Border Patrol Council Endorses Ken Paxton