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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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Mike Rounds Pays His Senior Adviser More Than $153,000 a Year. Meta and a Tobacco Giant Were Paying Him Too.

Mike Rounds Pays His Senior Adviser More Than $153,000 a Year. Meta and a Tobacco Giant Were Paying Him Too.

Robert Skjonsberg has worked for Rounds for over a decade and is a registered South Dakota lobbyist for more than a dozen clients, among them Meta and Altria. Senate rules say a staffer at his pay grade may not affiliate with a firm that sells professional services — and he is listed as a co-owner of one.

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Tommy Tuberville Says Alabamians Worried About Data Centers Are Repeating Chinese Propaganda. As a Senator He Bought and Sold Alibaba — and Was Late Disclosing About 130 Trades.

Tommy Tuberville Says Alabamians Worried About Data Centers Are Repeating Chinese Propaganda. As a Senator He Bought and Sold Alibaba — and Was Late Disclosing About 130 Trades.

Doug Jones pointed at Tuberville's Senate financial disclosures and asked whether Alabama's likely next governor personally profits from data centers. The disclosures show a China critic who traded a Chinese AI giant's stock and options, and broke the STOCK Act reporting it.

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Joe Lombardo Declared His Support for Data Centers Three Days After an AI Investor and His Wife Gave the PAC Backing Him $1 Million. A Week Later Another Data Center Family Gave $1 Million More.

Joe Lombardo Declared His Support for Data Centers Three Days After an AI Investor and His Wife Gave the PAC Backing Him $1 Million. A Week Later Another Data Center Family Gave $1 Million More.

Ben and Felicia Horowitz gave Better Nevada PAC $1 million on May 11. Lombardo posted his support for data centers on May 14. On May 21 the wife of Switch's founder gave another $1 million. He wrote in June that data centers raise water use and power bills, but 'it isn't happening in Nevada.'

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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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