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This special panel was a Q&A discussion with our reporting team — Brad Johnson, Holly Hansen, Hayden Sparks, Matt Stringer, and Kim Roberts. 

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! 

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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• Gov. Greg Abbott asking President Biden for a federal disaster declaration over the Austin ice storm
• Abbott putting the fentanyl crisis on his legislative agenda this session
• Abbott’s focus on banning government pandemic restrictions
• The Texas Supreme Court hearing a case over whether or not “morbid obesity” is a disability
• Two West Texas lawmakers proposing similar policies to recapture tax dollars for their region
• New bills filed in the Legislature to rein in non-voter-approved debt and property taxes in small counties
• Two state senators proposing a “review process” for officials in charge of administering elections
• Sen. Hughes filing a bill to protect attorneys from “discrimination” by the state bar
• A House committee considering four and a half billion dollars for Operation Lone Star
• How some Texas school districts get around the state’s “critical race theory” ban
• Street races in Austin showing the damaged relationship between the city and its police force
• The Austin Police Department hosting an LGBT “world conference” for criminal justice professionals in 2025

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This panel was about separation of powers in Texas – both between the branches of government and between state and local governments. Our senior reporter, Brad Johnson, moderated the discussion between State Sens. Mayes Middleton and Kevin Sparks, and Rep. Matt Schaefer. 

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This panel was about election reform policies in Texas. Our senior reporter, Hayden Sparks, moderated the discussion between State Sen. Bob Hall and Rep. Briscoe Cain. 

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! 

Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s 30 priorities for the Senate this session
• Two similar bills to mandate and subsidize the production of dispatchable generation
• The 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting suspect pleading guilty to over 90 offenses
• A bill to create a fund to subsidize water supply for lesser populated areas of Texas
• The Texas State Teachers Association promoting a “Week of Action” for Black History Month
• The State of Texas’ challenge to federal “Waters of the United States” regulations
• Attorney General Ken Paxton joining a lawsuit against the ATF over pistol braces
• The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol chief testifying to Congress that the U.S. lacks “capacity” to handle illegal immigrants
• The two Texas Democrats in Congress who opposed allowing noncitizens to vote in local D.C. elections
• Texas lawmakers asking Paxton to investigate the City of Dallas over its new abortion resolution
• The Medina County Republican Party censuring a Republican Congressman
• The firing of Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk and his nearly half a million dollar severance package
• The San Antonio City Council using eminent domain to build an expansion of the Alamo Museum

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This panel was about border and immigration policies. Our senior reporter, Hayden Sparks, moderated the discussion between State Sen. Pete Flores and Reps. Terry Canales and Eddie Morales, Jr. 

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This panel was about abortion policies in Texas following the Dobbs ruling and vaccination policies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our reporter, Holly Hansen, moderated the discussion between State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst and Reps. Donna Howard and Caroline Harris. 

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! 

Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• Speaker Dade Phelan releasing the committee assignments for the Texas House
• The new House Public Education committee chair school choice activists are optimistic about
• Illegal immigration reaching nearly 160,000 encounters in December 2022
• A state senator arrested in Austin on charges of drunk driving
• One lawmaker’s proposal to hold a statewide vote on legalizing sports betting and casinos
• A bill filed to preclude males from competing in collegiate women’s athletics
• Dallas County lawmakers’ legislative priorities for the 88th regular session
• A pair of bills to raise the age of consent and ban child gender modification
• The fight in the Legislature over ESG and the meaning of ‘fiduciary responsibility’
• A series of bills filed to improve school security and provide mass shooter training for law enforcement
• The ice storm that knocked out power for tens of thousands in Austin
• Ken Paxton’s prepared lawsuit over the endangered species status of the Lesser Prairie Chicken
• El Paso’s new policies to impede criminal investigations into abortion

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This panel was about public education and school choice. Our reporter, Holly Hansen, moderated the discussion between State Sen. Brandon Creighton and Reps. Harold Dutton, Brian Harrison, and Carrie Isaac. 

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This panel was about child gender modification policies in Texas. Our reporter, Matt Stringer, moderated the discussion between State Sen. Charles Perry and Reps. Bryan Slaton and Nate Schatzline.

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