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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas!
Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson announces with fanfare the discovery of a relatively small number of "potential non-citizens" on state voter registration rolls, prior to confirming that they are actual people voting illegally: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-says-database-found-more-than-2000-possible-noncitizens-on-voter-rolls/
The Texas Tribune reports that life on Texas college campuses has become hellish for trans students: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/21/texas-trans-students-college-hostility/
...New Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton, who helped write state laws now making trans kids' lives a living hell, is making massive bank in his new gig: https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/state/2025/10/20/brandon-creighton-to-make-1-2-million-as-chancellor-of-texas-tech-university-ttu-system/86753503007/
Fort Worth State Senate candidate Leigh Wambsganss has accused her fellow Republican and opponent John Huffman of altering pictures of her cross necklace to appear upside-down - a horror-movie trope symbolizing Satanism: https://www.chron.com/politics/article/wambsganss-senate-race-cross-21110578.php
Check out our 2025 Texas Statewide Voting Guide, including a link at the bottom for a printable version you CAN take with you to the polls: https://progresstexas.org/blog/2025-texas-statewide-ballot-guide
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