Lauren McGaughy
@lmcgaughy
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Investigative reporter + editor for The Texas Newsroom @KUT @NPR | Covering Texas politics + Elon Musk | FOIA nerd | Signal: lmcgaughy.40 | [email protected]
Austin, TX
Joined July 2009
🧵Remember that story we broke a few months ago with @propublica @TexasTribune? It said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott not wanting to release his office's emails with Elon Musk. Well, we have an update. #txlege
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The Trump administration jettisoned a plan to honor the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage and the civil-rights movement on quarters for the nation’s 250th birthday. But it may create a $1 coin featuring Trump. https://t.co/VfRe8jH0lh via @WSJ
wsj.com
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
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New poll offers early look at Senate fight between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico
dallasnews.com
A Texas Southern University poll offers insight into Democratic Senate showdown between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico.
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TEA announces state takeover of Lake Worth ISD
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The Texas Education Agency will remove Lake Worth ISD’s elected school board and superintendent and appoint a board of managers to govern the district after...
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This @McGeeReports and @nico_gjc story on Mark Welsh is stellar. The records they got were incredible, and show the intervention and influence of top politicians in the A&M president's ouster — all as Texas colleges move rightward. https://t.co/aj9JSxSwLd
#txlege #highered
texastribune.org
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as they grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts...
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Migrants held at Fort Bliss suffering physical abuse, unsafe conditions, human rights groups claim Via @elpasomatters:
texastribune.org
The ACLU and other groups interviewed more than 45 migrants held at the detention center and call it a “human and civil rights catastrophe.”
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News: @GlennHamer resigns as president and CEO of @txbiz. He was sued two weeks ago for sexual assault and the association placed him on administrative leave. @MeganMauroTX was named interim CEO last month and will remain in that role for the time being. #txlege
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Travis County DA Jose Garza can pursue criminal charges against Williamson Co. GOP chair @ThinkerMichelle for posting pic of transgender woman in women's restroom at Texas Capitol, Fifth Circuit says. Garza opened investigation, hasn't charged. #txlege
https://t.co/1NW3aIDEIM
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A Texas GOP activist who posted a photograph of a transgender woman washing her hands in a women’s restroom at the Texas Capitol isn’t entitled to civil protection from criminal prosecution, a...
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Courts have said that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton can use a nearly 150-year-old state law to demand entities’ internal records, and move to shut them down if they don’t comply.
texastribune.org
Courts have said that the attorney general can use a 100-year-old law to demand entities’ internal records and sue to shut them down if he believes they’re violating the law.
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For the billion people who texted me asking what this is about: property taxes. #txlege
Inbox: @DanPatrick to hold a press conference tomorrow at 2 pm at the Capitol. #txlege
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This is updated with all last-day filings listed by the @TexasGOP and @texasdemocrats, and those posted to the SOS site. But there may still be some trickling in from county parties who have to send the filings into the SOS. #txlege
Texas 2026 candidate tracker for statewides, Congress, and #txlege is available here:
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Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring. And dropping bombs on the way out:
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔 https://t.co/gtIExKIRqK
propublica.org
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing...
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NEW: Waymo recalls robotaxi software after cars showing illegally passing school buses in Austin, Texas. Kudos to @KXAN_News for breaking the stories that led to this. https://t.co/iLBsk55NAy
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Waymo is hitting the brakes on its robotaxi software and issuing a voluntary recall after school bus safety concerns came to light earlier this year.
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SCOOP from @gromerjeffers — Colin Allred drops out of Senate race, will run for House instead
dallasnews.com
With a U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett Senate candidacy looming, Democrat Colin Allred opts against running in the Senate primary. He's now campaigning to return...
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UT-Austin is behind on $160,000 in property taxes, penalties, and interest for the UT Club restaurant inside the Longhorns' football stadium, Travis County says in a new lawsuit. The county wants the restaurant sold to cover the bill. #txlege
https://t.co/KK7sEs6X38
news.bloombergtax.com
The University of Texas Club inside the Longhorns’ football stadium should be sold to cover delinquent property taxes, Travis County told a state trial court.
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Of note: Hamer pushed for a major tort reform bill this session that initially would've capped damages at $250K for mental or emotional pain resulting from personal injury cases, including sexual assault https://t.co/FkoX3hPMGD
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Texas Association of Business president and CEO Glenn Hamer is on administrative leave pending a "full internal investigation" after the head of Texas’ largest business org was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed today. latest here w/ @kaylaguo_
https://t.co/4XH7pA8S4V
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