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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.

Julie Fedorchak Says a National Voting Law Mirrors North Dakota's System. North Dakota Is Exempt From It, and Its System Does the Opposite.

Julie Fedorchak Says a National Voting Law Mirrors North Dakota's System. North Dakota Is Exempt From It, and Its System Does the Opposite.

Fedorchak says passing the SAVE America Act is a top priority and that it matches North Dakota's practice. North Dakota is exempt from the registration requirement she is praising, and its system does the opposite of what that requirement would impose: the state verifies citizenship itself, and the voter carries none of the burden. The one part of the bill that does reach North Dakota would take away identification the state accepts today.

Twelve Republican Attorneys General Fought for a Rule That Would Let the Post Office Refuse to Deliver Their Own Voters' Ballots. Eleven Filed Nothing Saying Their States Could Comply.

Twelve Republican Attorneys General Fought for a Rule That Would Let the Post Office Refuse to Deliver Their Own Voters' Ballots. Eleven Filed Nothing Saying Their States Could Comply.

A federal judge blocked the Postal Service's mail-ballot rule on Friday, finding no evidence of mail voting fraud in the record. Twelve Republican states were in court defending it — and asking to be exempted from the block so the rule could run in their states as a test.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

Americans Say Groceries Are Their Biggest Money Worry. House Republicans Spent the Evening of September 1 Voting to Condemn Socialism.

H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.