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Greg Abbott's Ad Says Gina Hinojosa 'Voted to Allow for Parents to Be Prosecuted for Child Abuse.' In 2022, Abbott Ordered Child-Abuse Investigations of Parents Over Their Trans Kids.

Greg Abbott's Ad Says Gina Hinojosa 'Voted to Allow for Parents to Be Prosecuted for Child Abuse.' In 2022, Abbott Ordered Child-Abuse Investigations of Parents Over Their Trans Kids.

Abbott's new 'Transition Your Kids – or Face Prosecution' ad rests on Hinojosa's vote against HB 1106, a bill saying it isn't child abuse for a parent to refuse a child's pronouns. Voting no on it allowed nothing — it passed, and Abbott signed it. In 2022, Abbott himself ordered the state to investigate parents of transgender kids for child abuse.

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Greg Abbott's Hand-Picked Parks Commission Planned a Closed-Door Session on Selling Boca Chica State Park — Two Days After the Election. Sources Say the Buyer Is Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Greg Abbott's Hand-Picked Parks Commission Planned a Closed-Door Session on Selling Boca Chica State Park — Two Days After the Election. Sources Say the Buyer Is Elon Musk's SpaceX.

A draft agenda put the sale of 1,300 acres in Cameron County on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission's closed-door calendar for November 5. All nine commissioners are Greg Abbott appointees. Two sources told Texas Monthly the land is Boca Chica State Park and the buyer is SpaceX. After reporters asked, the agency said the sale isn't on its November agenda.

Public LandsBillionaires & Big Business Texas
Trump Says the Border Is Secure. Greg Abbott Has Renewed His Border 'Emergency' 21 More Times Anyway — and Kept the No-Bid Contracts Flowing.

Trump Says the Border Is Secure. Greg Abbott Has Renewed His Border 'Emergency' 21 More Times Anyway — and Kept the No-Bid Contracts Flowing.

Greg Abbott has renewed or amended his border disaster proclamation at least 69 times since 2021 — 21 of them since Trump took office and crossings hit record lows. The 'emergency' lets his agencies skip competitive bidding: more than $5 million in no-bid contracts since January 2025, for rifles, apartments and a Ford F-150.

ImmigrationChecks & BalancesCorruption & Ethics Texas
Greg Abbott's Office Handed a Regulator a Secret Memo Targeting a Muslim Community. His Team Found No Securities Case. Ken Paxton Filed One Anyway.

Greg Abbott's Office Handed a Regulator a Secret Memo Targeting a Muslim Community. His Team Found No Securities Case. Ken Paxton Filed One Anyway.

Texas Monthly obtained the nine-page, unsigned document Abbott's lawyers walked the state securities commissioner through, laying out ways to bring government power against the East Plano Islamic Center. His team concluded there was no securities case. Paxton filed one, and the commissioner says he was told to resign.

RacistCorruption & Ethics Texas
Greg Abbott's $12 Million Ad Says Gina Hinojosa Voted 40 Times to Raise Property Taxes. His Other Ad Admits the State Doesn't Levy Property Taxes.

Greg Abbott's $12 Million Ad Says Gina Hinojosa Voted 40 Times to Raise Property Taxes. His Other Ad Admits the State Doesn't Levy Property Taxes.

Greg Abbott is spending $12 million on an ad claiming his opponent 'voted to' raise property taxes 40 times. The Houston Chronicle found she never directly voted to raise property taxes — the 40 votes were votes on seven GOP bills limiting local governments and their amendments, and Abbott's own second ad says only local governments levy property taxes.

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Twenty-Four Republicans on This Site Have Refused to Debate Their Opponents This Year. Cliff Bentz Turned Down Four Invitations.

Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.

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Republicans Running in 2026 Keep Manufacturing Their Opponents: A Doctored Flag, an AI Monologue, a Photoshopped Prison Uniform, and a Website Pretending to Be the Other Guy's

Greg Abbott's campaign used AI to swap an American flag for a transgender flag in a photo of his opponent talking to a child about a closed school. Ken Paxton scripted a speech his opponent never gave. Marsha Blackburn put hers in a prison jumpsuit. Cindy Hyde-Smith registered a domain in her opponent's name.

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State of the State: Texas Is 40th Overall. Greg Abbott and Texan Republicans in Congress Aren't Helping.

Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.

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Greg Abbott Left Home Insurance Off His List of Seven Emergency Priorities. Eighteen Months Later He Says Premiums Are Up 79%.

Greg Abbott Left Home Insurance Off His List of Seven Emergency Priorities. Eighteen Months Later He Says Premiums Are Up 79%.

Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Insurance to act on home insurance costs on August 24, 2026, citing a 79% premium increase in six years. In 2025 his Legislature killed both bills that would have addressed it, insurance was not one of his seven emergency items, and it was not on his 18-item special session agenda either.

Cost of LivingBillionaires & Big Business Texas
Greg Abbott Signed the 'Largest Property Tax Cut in Texas History.' Texans' Property Tax Bills Went From $51 Billion to $89 Billion.

Greg Abbott Signed the 'Largest Property Tax Cut in Texas History.' Texans' Property Tax Bills Went From $51 Billion to $89 Billion.

Abbott's new affordability plan promises to cut property taxes in half by zeroing out school taxes on homesteads. He has been governor since 2015, and statewide property tax levies have risen from $51.2 billion to $89.4 billion on his watch. Nearly 4 in 10 homesteads already owe no school tax, and Texas's 4.1 million renters get nothing.

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Trump Told Towns That Don't Want a Data Center They Want to Be 'Backwards and Poor.' He Signed the Order Giving Data Centers Federal Land, Fast-Tracked Permits and Taxpayer Loan Guarantees.

Trump Told Towns That Don't Want a Data Center They Want to Be 'Backwards and Poor.' He Signed the Order Giving Data Centers Federal Land, Fast-Tracked Permits and Taxpayer Loan Guarantees.

On Monday, Trump answered the seven in ten Americans who don't want a data center near them by telling them they're choosing to be poor. Thirteen months earlier he had signed the executive order that hands those data centers federal land, skipped environmental reviews and taxpayer-backed loans.

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A Republican Pollster Says Greg Abbott's Data Center Pause 'Found the Sweet Spot.' The Rural Texans It Was Aimed At Call It 'Smoke and Mirrors.'

A Republican Pollster Says Greg Abbott's Data Center Pause 'Found the Sweet Spot.' The Rural Texans It Was Aimed At Call It 'Smoke and Mirrors.'

Abbott courted data centers and let their tax break balloon for eleven years. In August of an election year he announced a pause — and lifelong Republicans in small towns say they can see exactly what it is. His approval with rural voters has fallen 15 points, and he's now one point ahead of a Democrat.

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