A family matter
U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred made clear on Monday that he's not taking on Ted Cruz alone.
Moments before the Democrat stepped to the podium for a press conference in Austin marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, he turned to his wife Alexandra Eber to help make the case about what pregnant women in Texas are having to face daily.
Eber, an attorney and mother of two, talked about the anxiety women already feel when they get an ultrasound, praying for good news. But she said to think of a woman getting the most difficult news you can imagine and now having to worry about lawyers, hospital administrators and politicians before being able to do what's next is wrong.
"Politicians in Texas, like Ted Cruz, have done the unthinkable, which is to make it ever harder for women in those unthinkable moments," she said.
It was the first time Eber had been a featured speaker at a press conference for her husband's campaign. It tied into a larger theme that Allred focused on later, which is putting the blame for the overturning of Roe v Wade at the feet of Cruz, even though it was a Supreme Court decision.
"In many ways, he was the architect of the situation we are in right now," Allred said.
He explained that Cruz helped elect the anti-abortion legislators and advocated for judges who would end abortion in America. On the day Dobbs was overturned, Cruz praised the decision calling it a "momentous day."
"I've been proud to stand for life in the U.S. Senate, and I will continue to do so as we navigate the path ahead," Cruz said at the time.
Like other Democrats around the nation, Allred's campaign sees the issue as a potential to drive voter turnout in November. The White House had over 50 events planned in battleground states around the nation to focus on the same issue.
 | Jeremy Wallace, Texas politics reporter |
Who's up, who's down
Up: Michael Phelps.
The U.S. House is clearly getting in the Olympic spirit early by inviting 23-time Olympic gold medalists to testify on anti-doping measures at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Phelps is testifying before a subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee that includes U.S. Reps Michael Burgess, R-Pilot Point, and Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston.
Down: Alex Jones.
A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down Austin-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars media platform and liquidate its assets to help pay the $1.5 billion in lawsuit judgments Jones owes for repeatedly calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax. In an "emergency" motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to "conduct an orderly wind-down" of the operations of Infowars' parent company and "liquidate its inventory.
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That is the amount of money that Kevin Roberts, the leader of the Heritage Foundation, has put towards a conservative initiative to go after federal bureaucrats that they believe could resist the agenda of Donald Trump if he wins a second term. The Associated Press reports that Roberts, the former CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, said the effort is aimed at cleaning the "deep state of entrenched Leftist bureaucrats."
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When the first presidential debate gets underway on Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not be on stage. CNN informed Kennedy he didn't qualify for the debate at a time when the independent candidate was still struggling to get on the ballot in all 50 states.
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