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On immigration, Texas’ political past a foreign country | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
On immigration, Texas’ political past a foreign country | Editorial
The Houston Chronicle editorial board asks Ed Emmett to help guide us back to the time when Texas Republicans held more nuanced takes on immigration, and figure out whether we could get back.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
On immigration, Texas’ political past a foreign country | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Gov. Greg Abbott plans to gut public school funding as he sends $1 billion to private schools www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Tomlinson: Abbott promises to starve public schools of tax revenues
Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to cut property taxes will starve public schools while he sends state money to private schools.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Gov. Greg Abbott plans to gut public school funding as he sends $1 billion to private schools www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Would Trump have pardoned Enron crooks? He’s doing that now with crypto criminals. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Remember Enron? White-collar crime used to be bad. Now it's pardoned.
Trump might pretend not to know the crypto billionaire he just pardoned but you should. He is going soft on white collar crime while his sons profit, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Would Trump have pardoned Enron crooks? He’s doing that now with crypto criminals. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
MAGA should tell Trump: No war in Venezuela. Put America First. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
MAGA should tell Trump: No war in Venezuela. Put America First. | Editorial
The Houston Chronicle editorial board opposed the War in Iraq while supporting President George W. Bush. They're telling MAGA voters to do the same with Venezuela and President Trump.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
MAGA should tell Trump: No war in Venezuela. Put America First. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Ted Cruz and Dan Crenshaw got it right. Antisemitism has no place in any political party. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Cruz and Crenshaw are right. Republicans must reject antisemitism.
The editorial board praises Ted Cruz and Dan Crenshaw for condemning Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ted Cruz and Dan Crenshaw got it right. Antisemitism has no place in any political party. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Texas Republicans should be worried by the election results — if Democrats can get their act together www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
Tomlinson: Texas’s 2026 elections just got more interesting
Election results should worry Texas Republicans, if Democrats can get their act together.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Texas Republicans should be worried by the election results — if Democrats can get their act together www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
A Pasadena ICE raid left a family terrorized. Is Houston any safer? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
A Pasadena ICE raid left a family terrorized. Is Houston any safer?
Dozens of masked ICE agents. A smashed window. Threats of tear gas. All to catch a husband, a brother and a neighbor in the Houston area.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A Pasadena ICE raid left a family terrorized. Is Houston any safer? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Vote no on Proposition 3. It's built on fear, not facts. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Proposition 3 is built on fear, not facts — and Texans will suffer | Opinion
Proposition 3 won’t make Texans safer, says Jay Jenkins of the Wren Collective. It will expand pretrial detention, overcrowd already deadly jails and punish legally innocent people.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Vote no on Proposition 3. It's built on fear, not facts. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Texas troops were sent to Chicago on a lie. Bring them home, Abbott. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Texas troops were sent to Chicago on a lie. Bring them home, Abbott. | Editorial
A court order makes it clear the Texas National Guard was sent to Illinois on a lie. Gov. Greg Abbott should use this as an excuse to bring them home, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Texas troops were sent to Chicago on a lie. Bring them home, Abbott. | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Houston’s Pride crosswalk attacked by Trump and Greg Abbott. Where’s Mayor Whitmire? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Houston’s Pride crosswalk comes under attack. Where’s Whitmire? | Editorial
The Houston Chronicle editorial board wants the city's mayor to stand up against state and federal incursion into local decisions about crosswalk design — and stand up for our LGBT community.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Houston’s Pride crosswalk attacked by Trump and Greg Abbott. Where’s Mayor Whitmire? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Does dragnet immigration enforcement make Texas any safer? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Immigrants get arrested. Citizens suffer. All of Texas is less safe. | Editorial
A second detainee has died after a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, reminding us that Trump's immigration approach makes us all less safe, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Does dragnet immigration enforcement make Texas any safer? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Trump made Jade Helm real. How long until it comes to Houston? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Trump made Jade Helm real. How long until it comes to Houston? | Editorial
Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Trump made Jade Helm real. How long until it comes to Houston? | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
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The CFIUS Review That Will Never Be
What it means that the president’s son-in-law is part of the group buying Electronic Arts.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Republicans shun Sharia law but praise Christianity in politics | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/lett...
Shaming Sharia law but requiring the Ten Commandments? Oh, please.
“Forcing public schools to display a particular version of the Ten Commandments?” writes Thomas Martin. “It’s just Sharia law under a different guise.”
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October 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Republicans shun Sharia law but praise Christianity in politics | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/lett...
What Trump’s AI medbed video means for Houston | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
What Trump’s AI medbed video means for Houston | Editorial
While President Trump posts an AI medbed video, Houston suffers from serious cuts to health care research and services amid a likely government shutdown, the Houston Chronicle editorial board...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What Trump’s AI medbed video means for Houston | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Texas A&M lecturer’s firing just part of a sinister trend | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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September 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Texas A&M lecturer’s firing just part of a sinister trend | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
What Texas politicians are getting very wrong about free speech | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
After Charlie Kirk's death, Texas politicians can't get free speech right
Texas is tough enough to handle free, even offensive, speech. Maybe our leaders have gotten a little soft in Austin.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What Texas politicians are getting very wrong about free speech | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Let Charlie Kirk's death be a turning point. Make America civil again. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Enough with the partisan venom. Let Charlie Kirk's death be a turning point.
Most Americans still believe it's possible to disagree about politics respectfully. It's time to take our country back.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Let Charlie Kirk's death be a turning point. Make America civil again. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
I'm an Aggie. Texas A&M deserves better than partisan witch hunts. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
I'm an Aggie. The culture wars are hurting Texas A&M.
Stop demanding that A&M enact policy based on the outrage of the day.
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September 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'm an Aggie. Texas A&M deserves better than partisan witch hunts. | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
Trump admin plots ‘alarming’ health announcement designed to ‘scare people’: report
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Trump admin plots ‘alarming’ health announcement designed to ‘scare people’: report
Top health officials within the Trump administration plan to give a presentation next week linking COVID-19 vaccines to child deaths – based on unverified reports – to a panel that helps shape vaccine...
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September 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Trump admin plots ‘alarming’ health announcement designed to ‘scare people’: report
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What are Abbott’s lawyers smoking? THC executive order is an overreach | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
What are Abbott’s lawyers smoking? THC executive order is an overreach
There’s much to like in the governor’s executive order on THC, but Texans should question the wisdom of unilateral action.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
What are Abbott’s lawyers smoking? THC executive order is an overreach | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
With the CDC in chaos, RFK Jr. is Gone to Texas | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
With the CDC in chaos, RFK Jr. is Gone to Texas | Editorial
As RFK Jr. purges the CDC, the Houston Chronicle editorial board writes about the secretary's attacks on research and vaccines in Texas.
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August 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
With the CDC in chaos, RFK Jr. is Gone to Texas | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...