All posts tagged "Dallas Morning News"

President Donald Trump and Republican Party leaders have decided to "host a GOP midterm twist" with a convention in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The "Texas power play" would bring a rare midterm rally to deep-blue Dallas in an attempt to garner voter support ahead of the midterms this fall. The unprecedented move would rely on "Texas money and muscle" to bring together Republicans in hopes to secure victories for GOP candidates.

"Holding conventions every two years is routine for state parties, including Texas. National political conventions, by contrast, are typically reserved for presidential cycles," according to The Dallas Morning News....

At the start of a video blaming Democrats for a laundry list of problems, a narrator says in an ominous baritone, “Do they know what they have done?”

Moments later, a free-for-all of migrants are shown charging at the U.S. border from Tijuana, Mexico — part of a tribute to “tireless conservative warrior” Ken Paxton, the embattled attorney general of Texas. The video debuted last month at the Texas GOP Convention and Paxton posted it on social media.

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Joanna Walters, theguardian.com

The mayor of a Texas town devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion told the Dallas Morning News that the disaster has changed his views on the state's laissez-faire view of business regulation. Watching his townspeople struggle to hew their lives back together in the six months since the explosion ripped apart the town of West, has given Mayor Tommy Muska a new perspective on government aid.

Police in Irving, Texas, charged a 17-year-old boy with plying a 15-year-old girl with marijuana, alcohol and Xanax and making her have sex with adult men for money and drugs from April 29 to May 2, the Dallas Morning News reported on Tuesday.

In an interview published Monday, taken in Times Square during Saturday's global day of protests, Pulitzer-winning writer Chris Hedges explained his view of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement and why he's supporting it.