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Republicans at each other's throats over 'pretty damn disgusting' remarks from MAGA gov
Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks to the media at a press conference in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Hunt, Texas, U.S., July 8, 2025. REUTERS/Sergio Flores
Texas Republicans Aren’t Fighting Racism. They’re Fighting the Fallout.
The Panic Is Electoral
Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a photograph of University of Texas football fans—many of them people of color—and declared that “the problem” was worse than imagined. The apparent targeting of South Asian students triggered Republican anxiety about damage to Greg Abbott’s reelection, Ken Paxton’s…
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