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Texas lawmakers target property taxes, abortion

Texas lawmakers jumpstart 2025 session by filing bills on abortion, education and property taxes

The Legislature meets biennially, meaning lawmakers have had a full year to brainstorm ideas for new legislation. Only a few hundred bills are passed each year by both the GOP-led House and Senate, meaning the vast majority of bills filed Tuesday will ultimately fall by the wayside.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 2h

Texas lawmakers target property taxes, abortion and gender transition care in first bills for the 2025 session

Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate filed more than a thousand pieces of legislation Tuesday, offering an early look at the issues they hope to prioritize when they gavel in f

abc13 · 18h

Texas lawmakers target property taxes, abortion and gender transition care in first bills for 2025

Tuesday marked the first day Texas lawmakers could file bills for next year's legislative session. Here's what's on the top of their list.

The Texas Tribune on MSN1h

Why Democrats’ abortion messaging failed to resonate in Texas, despite unpopular bans

Texas’ strict abortion bans made it “ground zero” for Democrats hoping to rile up their base, but voters prioritized economic ...

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After election losses, Texas Democrats search for what's next on abortion messaging

Texas Democrats’ election losses last week are prompting serious self-reflection among some strategists over the decision to ...

The Nation on MSN8h

What We Learn From the Texas Town That Voted for Abortion and for Trump

The right to abortion won big this election—and so did the man who ended Roe v. Wade. Nowhere was that contradiction more ...

USA Today3d

GOP sweeps Texas Supreme Court, despite efforts of abortion rights PAC

The Find Out PAC also criticized the court's decision in Zurawski v. Texas, a lawsuit brought by two OB-GYNs and 20 women ...

CBS News on MSN10d

How Texas's abortion laws are driving doctors out of the state

Doctors in Texas potentially face huge fines, life in prison and losing their license because of the state's strict abortion ...

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OB-GYNs, Democrats renew calls to change Texas abortion ban after pregnant women's deaths

In response to the reports, several anti-abortion groups accused ProPublica of perpetuating a false impression of the ban's exception, with Texas Right to Life saying doctors could and should ...

The Texas Tribune on MSN8d

Amarillo voters reject abortion “travel ban,” a rare rebuke of anti-abortion movement in Texas

Tuesday’s vote was a rare chance for Texans to vote directly on abortion restrictions. The state already has a near-total ...

Mother Jones7d

This Conservative Texas Town Defeated an Extreme Abortion Travel Ban

The city of Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle, has emerged as one of the strongholds of the anti-abortion movement in that ...

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Voters in a conservative Texas city reject abortion travel ban

Amarillo, with a population of 203,000, is the largest city in the Texas Panhandle, and its rejection of the measure stops ...

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No Blue Wave Broke in Texas … Again

Ever since I was studying political science at the University of Houston in the 1970s, Democrats have been predicting that a ...

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