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Reminder from our team about the importance of the once-in-a-decade Census.

Thank you, John Lewis, for your years of service and friendship. Leading our country to a better place, and leading us in making “good trouble.”

As the White House dug in on plans to deploy federal agents to Portland and other U.S. cities, few of President Donald Trump’s allies in Texas rose to his defense amid a Democratic uproar over “secret police.” Critics see an authoritarian shift that only inflames tensions. They cite reports of federal agents in uniforms that lack insignia or name tags detaining protesters in unmarked vans, a practice they call a massive overreaction to localized protests.

​WASHINGTON — It was the beginning of a reckoning Friday for Vanessa Guillen, the 20-year old murdered Army private who was honored with a private military memorial service at Fort Hood with her boots, helmet and dog tags on display as Taps played.

WASHINGTON—Many large U.S. corporations are sitting on piles of tax credits they may not be able to use for years. They want Congress to let them have the money now.

Like many of my fellow Texans, I was shocked when Senator Ted Cruz was recently spotted not wearing a mask on a flight from Dallas to Houston as COVID-19 cases were spiking across the state. Pandemic petulance is pretty on brand for the junior senator, but his latest fit of obstinacy comes at a particularly dangerous time: hurricane season.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas politicians are paying tribute Saturday to civil rights icon and longtime Congressman John Lewis, who has died aged 80.

Michael B. Williams spent nearly two years helping to run a trade group focused on expanding sales of firearm silencers by American manufacturers. But try as he might, he could not achieve one of the industry’s main goals: overturning a ban on sales to private foreign buyers enacted by the State Department to protect American troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Then Mr. Williams joined the Trump administration. As a White House lawyer, he pushed to overturn the prohibition, raising the issue with influential administration officials and creating pressure within the State Department, according to current and former government officials. On Friday, the State Department lifted the ban, and a longtime industry goal was realized. The change paved the way for as much as $250 million a year in possible new overseas sales for companies that Mr. Williams had championed as general counsel of the American Suppressor Association.