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Thursday's Daily Briefing: Abbott puts state emergency crews on alert as the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Vance threaten flash floods in West and South-Central Texas, and the Potter County GOP asks a federal judge to order a hand count of every Texas ballot.
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Jefferson scholar M. Andrew Holowchak read the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence clause by clause with Daniel Miller and found Jefferson's hand at nearly every turn. His verdict on the Texas effort: "I hope like hell it works."
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Texas Comptroller Don Huffines will post Education Freedom Accounts spending on a public dashboard and hire an independent auditor to review the program. More than 100,000 students are enrolled in its first year. Texans will be able to search how the money is spent.
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Britain told Parliament on October 22 that China remains "in a state of ongoing non-compliance" with the 1984 Hong Kong handover treaty. Hong Kong police can now demand device passwords, and Jimmy Lai is serving 20 years. The treaty's promise runs until 2047.
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The Texas General Land Office says nine Rio Grande islands, about 66 acres, are state property. The land commissioner cleared DPS and the Texas Military Department to patrol them. Washington asked who owned them. Texas checked its own records and answered.
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191 years ago today, about 90 Texian volunteers under Bowie and Fannin held a bend of the San Antonio River near Mission Concepcion against 275 Mexican troops and two cannons. The fight lasted about 30 minutes. The Texians lost one man.
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Daily Briefing: Texas early voting reached 23.4% of registered voters through Sunday, just behind the 2018 pace of 24.3%. Washington is weighing a plan to move a planned border wall section off a levee and through the Santa Ana refuge instead.
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The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to suspend the Texas judgment that vacated a federal rule letting immigration judges set deportation cases aside indefinitely. Three cities that were never parties to the case had asked. The state's June win stands.
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Oklahoma votes April 6, 2027, on whether to call a convention to revise its own constitution. That constitution requires the question at least every 20 years, and no one has asked it since 1970. A former lawmaker is suing to pull it off the ballot. None of it touches Article V.
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Today's Daily Briefing: the comptroller's auditors finish their on-site review of Prosper ISD, the first of four districts, 411 Texas school systems split $40 million for teacher training, and Britain says China is still breaking the Hong Kong handover treaty.
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At least 11 Illinois counties vote November 3 on whether their boards should explore leaving Cook County and Chicago behind to form a new state. Since 2020, 33 counties have voted on the question. All 33 passed it.
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Fort Bend County approved tax breaks that could spare a planned $10 billion Tesla solar cell factory from county equipment taxes for up to 35 years. Tesla has not picked the site. If it defaults, grants already paid would not be recovered.
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Gilead Sciences will pay Texas $45 million to settle claims that free nursing and paperwork services steered doctors toward prescribing its drugs to Medicaid patients. Gilead denies wrongdoing. Restitution makes up $24,562,500 of the total.
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The Supreme Court of Texas will decide whether Dallas can ban short-term rentals in single-family neighborhoods. A Dallas appeals court found owners have "a vested right to lease their properties" under the Texas Constitution. Argument is set for December 3.
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More than 4.1 million Texans voted in the first six days of early voting, about 21.8 percent of 19 million registered voters. Harris County alone counts 587,516 in-person voters through Sunday. Early voting runs through Friday, October 30.
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Barnham, a Suffolk village of about 600, voted 70 to 7 by show of hands to hold its own referendum on leaving the United Kingdom. London plans to house up to 931 asylum seekers at the military site next door. Piddington voted to leave first, 285 to 26.
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Hours after Lula won reelection, São Paulo deputy-elect Thomaz Henrique called for a debate on the state's autonomy. A day later he narrowed it to more power for Brazil's states. His state voted against Lula 53.8 percent to 46.2 percent.
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Comptroller Don Huffines has a new statewide unit to investigate fraud and corruption involving taxpayer money. Texas FIRST takes public corruption cases along with sales tax fraud and fake unclaimed property claims. "No one is off limits," Huffines said.
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Monday's briefing: screwworm cases in Texas and New Mexico reach 65 since June, with two new cattle cases confirmed Friday in Hudspeth County. Alberta finishes counting more than 20.5 million referendum ballots by hand, and all five immigration questions passed.
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The full Fifth Circuit ruled 10-7 that immigrants never lawfully admitted can be held without bond during deportation cases, however long they have lived here. It reversed three Austin release orders from Texas traffic stops. Whether it holds nationwide is up to the Supreme Court.
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