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San Antonio Current
Early voting for May 26 runoff election starts Monday
...registered Bexar County voters the chance to weigh in on contests including the high-profile battle between ​John Cornyn and ​Ken Paxton. Polls are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. for the duration of early voting. Republican...
Sanford Nowlin
05/18/2026 Online
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South East Texas Record
Working with DOJ, Paxton probes meatpacking industry
Texas Attorney General ​Ken Paxton Gage Skidmore/Wikipedia Commons AUSTIN - ​Texas Attorney General ​Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the beef industry over potential anticompetitive conduct...
Chris Dickerson
05/18/2026 Online
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Dallas Voice
Early vote with Jasmine and Colin
Rep. ​Jasmine Crockett will be at the Oak Lawn Branch of the the Dallas Public Library today (Monday, May 18 at 1:30 p.m.) to early vote with ​Colin Allred. Get our weekly eBlast! Join more than 20,000...
David
05/18/2026 Online
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Dallas Observer
Dallas asked residents what to do about city hall. We have a few favorite suggestions
...can only imagine that this is the kind of person who has somehow squared the logic of voting for both ​Ken Paxton and ​Gina Hinojosa in the November election. A negotiator suggested that Dallas Mavericks owner...
Emma Ruby
05/18/2026 Online
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
In North Texas, John Cornyn warns Ken Paxton could sink GOP in November races
In a county he called "ground zero" for his Republican runoff campaign, U.S. Sen. ​John Cornyn stood alongside two ​Texas House members Sunday and warned that Republicans may lose seats in Washington, Austin...
Bud Kennedy May
05/18/2026 Online
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San Angelo Standard Times
Cornyn looks to rename a U.S. highway after Trump ahead of Texas runoff
Updated May 13, 2026, 8:51 a.m. CT U.S. Sen. ​John Cornyn is moving to name nearly 1,800 miles of U.S. highway after President Donald Trump — a week before early voting begins in his Republican primary...
Mateo Rosiles
05/18/2026 Online
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Ktep
Supreme Court of Texas refuses removal of Texas House Democratic leader who broke quorum last year
The Supreme Court of ​Texas has refused to remove Rep. ​Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat and party leader in the ​Texas House, from office over his role in the high-profile, 2025 quorum break over congressional...
Kut By Blaise Gainey
05/18/2026 Online
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Ktep
Here are the key races in Texas' May primary runoff election
Texas voters will return to the polls this week for primary runoff elections that will decide several high-profile statewide and local races ahead of November's general election. The May 26 runoff election...
Lucio Vasquez, Kera By
05/18/2026 Online
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KTRK ABC 13 Houston
Terminal E at Bush Airport to be renamed in honor of late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
...Terminal E at Bush Intercontinental Airport will officially be renamed to honor late Congresswoman ​Sheila Jackson Lee on Monday. Jackson Lee spent nearly 30 years in Congress representing Texas' 18th congressional...
05/18/2026 Online
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Dallas Observer
Frisco mayoral candidate doubles down on GOP ‘sharia scare’ rhetoric, H-1B hysteria
...podcast, Vilhauer fanned fears of sharia law — which is largely unenforceable in the U.S. — coming to ​Texas and dismissed took shots at the Islamic faith. "You can’t tell me that Islam is a religion," Vilhauer...
Austin Wood
05/18/2026 Online
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KSST Radio (Sulphur Springs)
Governor Abbott Announces Over $2.5 Million In Career Training Grants For Nine East Texas Area Schools
May 18, 2026 | Austin, Texas | Governor ​Greg Abbott today announced nine Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grants totaling $2,524,300 have been awarded to nine schools in East Texas by the Texas Workforce...
05/18/2026 Online
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Tyler Morning Telegraph
Ken Paxton rallying in Tyler tonight to kick off early voting in primary runoff
Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate ​Ken Paxton is coming to Tyler tonight. Paxton will rally with East Texans for an event hosted by Lone Star Liberty PAC. The date of the event coincides...
05/18/2026 Online
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
See every Star-Telegram endorsement for Texas primary runoffs | Opinion
...been the state's marquee race, and it's finally coming to a head. Republicans should choose incumbent ​John Cornyn over the ethically flawed, politically overrated challenger, ​Ken Paxton. Cornyn will be a more...
05/18/2026 Online
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Corpus Christi Caller Times
Timeline shows events around requested removal of Corpus Christi mayor
...the funding "void, invalid, and not enforceable," based, in part, on an assertion that "it offends ​public policy to have allowed solicitation of City’s tax-payer dollars by use of an Altered Federal Document."...
Kirsten Crow
05/18/2026 Online
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Houston Press
Joe Panzarella Wins District C City Council Runoff
..."far-right" police and fire unions and expressed concern that Hellyar would be a "yes man" to Mayor ​John Whitmire, who was admonished by the Democratic Party last year. Then came Panzarella's endorsement...
05/18/2026 Online
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San Antonio Express-News
Despite Cornyn's razor-thin victory in the March 3 primary, he and Paxton have not spent much time on the road to campaign ahead of the Texas GOP runoff May 26.
U.S. Sen. ​John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General ​Ken Paxton are beginning their final push to rally GOP voters, with early voting kicking off Monday in the Republican runoff for Texas' senate seat. Cornyn...
James Osborne
05/18/2026 Online
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