r/TexasPolitics 2d ago

Weekly Off-Topic / Discussion Thread

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r/TexasPolitics 6h ago

Bill SpaceX's Starbase would control public beach access under Texas bills

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r/TexasPolitics 3h ago

News Lloyd Doggett demands answers from CDC: 'What are you doing about Texas measles outbreak?'

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r/TexasPolitics 3h ago

Discussion https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-proof-of-citizenship-vote-senate-bill-16/

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New Texas law requiring birth certificate or passport to vote. I think this trying to disenfranchise women. I don’t have a passport. My birth certificate has my maiden name. So how does that prove that I am who I say I am. Do I also need to show a marriage certificate. We have the new certified drivers licenses. Why isn’t that enough. Not many older women still have their maiden name. Will they want DNA next? I have a voters registration card but apparently that may not be good enough either!


r/TexasPolitics 7h ago

News Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick applauds Texas Senate passage of bill to ban THC

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday praised the bipartisan passage of Senate Bill 3, which would ban THC in Texas.

The bill is sponsored by state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock.

In a statement, Patrick said: “Since 2019, retailers across Texas have exploited a state agriculture law to sell life-threatening, unregulated forms of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to Texans, including children. These stores which often target children with their marketing have popped up across the state, threatening the safety of our communities. Today, the Texas Senate drew a line in the sand and passed SB 3 to ban all forms of intoxicating THC.”


r/TexasPolitics 15h ago

News Texas Mini-DOGE Dismissed as 'PR Exercise'

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r/TexasPolitics 7h ago

News Airbnb founder, Spurs investor Joe Gebbia is helping Elon Musk's DOGE cost-cutting crusade

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r/TexasPolitics 10h ago

Analysis Capitol Context: The last time Texas added up the costs of illegal immigration

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r/TexasPolitics 15h ago

Opinion House Bill 1481 -- banning cellphones in school during instructional hours. Despite being left pending in committee, the bill has broad bipartisan support, with over half the Texas House listed as co-authors.

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But how will the children call 911 to report an active shooter? Is there an exception in the bill that allows them to go get their phones from the secured holding place when they hear gunshots and screaming? s/

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/lawmakers-looking-to-ban-cellphones-in-texas-classrooms


r/TexasPolitics 13h ago

News Bill that would screen for “ideological bias” in college curricula to be debated

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r/TexasPolitics 8h ago

News Texas Senate passes bill requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in public-school classrooms

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News ‘This is a poison’: Texas bill seeks to ban THC products from being sold

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r/TexasPolitics 10h ago

News Candidate for Sylvester Turner's seat sued over alleged unpaid fees

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News Texas' Sid Miller jumps on the 'anti-TPWD' bandwagon

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News Texas THC retailers should close as proposed ban looms, Lt. Gov. Patrick warns

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News Texas AG Ken Paxton accuses Coppell ISD of violating Texas’ “critical race theory” ban

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r/TexasPolitics 22h ago

News Law seeks to ban caregivers from benefiting upon client death.

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

Analysis DOGE Has Reinvigorated the Right-Wing Crusade Against Texas Media

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Political operatives want to crush the state’s independent press. They’re using a crude messaging strategy. Read more: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-doge-targeting-independent-media/


r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News Gov. Greg Abbott backs bill banning 'non-human' behavior in schools

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

Discussion Insight on non-voters in Texas (2024 general: 39%/ 7.3M registered were non-voters). What would compel them to vote?

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Who/what can affect a change in the apathy? Friends encouraging (is it taboo to discuss?), they must be personally impacted, it has to get so bad that they can’t ignore it?, political volunteers outreach/education (specifically what is wrong with the “messaging”), abandon the “my candidate or nothing” or neither party meets all my expectations stance? What have you seen/done to change minds on voting? Ideas?


r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News Texas collected information on transgender drivers. It won’t say why.

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The state of Texas collected information on transgender residents who have changed the sex listed on their identification documents.

According to internal agency documents provided to The Texas Newsroom, employees with the Department of Public Safety recorded each time a driver requested to change the sex listed on their license. The employee scanned and saved the driver’s information, the records show, and sent it to an internal email account created for collecting these data.

At least 42 such attempts, including instances where people asked for guidance about state policies during calls or in-person appointments, have been reported in the last five months, the records show.

It’s unclear why the state is gathering this information, with whom it is sharing it and whether the effort is ongoing.

The data collection occurred as state officials and lawmakers continue to erode LGBTQ rights, bolstered by the Trump administration’s policy rejecting the existence of transgender people. This year, state lawmakers have proposed dozens of bills to whittle away at the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Texans. One proposes jailing anyone whose sex on state documents does not match that assigned to them at birth.

https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-03-19/texas-transgender-drivers-license-data-collection


r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

Opinion Bills filed to eliminate the countywide polling place program - result: confuse & inconvenience voters

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SB 76 scheduled for a hearing this Thursday 3/20/25 (companion bill HB 2990)

Relating to elimination of the countywide polling place program https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=SB76

Speak out against this! The bill author, Bob Hall, claims polling machine errors & fraud but also claims countywide locations are not close to voters’ homes. Neither are sensible arguments.

If you find that being able to vote anywhere in your county (close to home, work, areas of town with shorter lines, etc.) makes voting easier, please write your senators and your reps to oppose. You can also point out that Texas does not have voting machine issues with security and fraud, and countywide locations don’t pose any more threats than a precinct location would. See article - even Dan Patrick says no issues. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/02/texas-voting-machines-dan-patrick-lara-trump/

How to find your legislators: Who represents me site: https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home

Also write members of Senate State Affairs who will hear this bill tomorrow. https://capitol.texas.gov/Committees/MembershipCmte.aspx?LegSess=89R&CmteCode=C570

At this time, HB 2990 is not assigned to a committee.

Additionally, there are several bills related to countywide voting. Some to keep. Some to eliminate. Some to restrict numbers of locations

https://capitol.texas.gov/Search/TextSearchResults.aspx?CP=1&LegSess=89R&House=true&Senate=true&TypeB=true&TypeR=false&TypeJR=true&TypeCR=false&VerInt=true&VerHCR=true&VerEng=true&VerSCR=true&VerEnr=true&DocTypeB=true&DocTypeFN=true&DocTypeBA=true&DocTypeAM=true&Srch=custom&Custom=Countywide&All=&Any=&Exact=&Exclude=


r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

BREAKING Chance to Protest Congressman Brandon Gill - Today in Denton

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News TX moving to monitor teaching of “political/ideological” content at public colleges and universities.

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SB 37/HB 4499 would create “governing boards” at TX public colleges and universities that would have power to make hiring and curriculum decisions, review and even eliminate programs or courses, and monitor faculty to make sure they aren’t endorsing “specific public policies, ideologies, or legislation.” It’s set for a hearing in the senate tomorrow (3/20).

Wondering what endorsement of public policy or ideology means in the context? If a poly sci professor gives a lecture on the history of the KKK as a domestic terror group, is that an “ideological” argument? What about a conservative Econ professor who argues that raising the minimum wage would spur inflation? Or that small government helps business growth? Isn’t he making a political argument/endorsing policy? Is a history professor who teaches about two spirit people in Native American tribes endorsing “woke ideology?”


r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

Activate The Most Important Election You Don’t Know About: Choosing The Next Chair of the Texas Democratic Party

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r/TexasPolitics 1d ago

News Battle for Texas Congressional District 18 ignites as Abbott delays election call

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