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Alisa Simmons Verified account @CommALSimmons · 1d

I received a VERY AMAZING call around 5p this evening.

Check it out.

#tarrantcounty #countyjudgeelect
@KamalaHarris

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Jesús Rodríguez Verified account @jesusrodriguezb · 23h

Karl Rove lays the defeat of the party he helped build at the feet of Ken Paxton, telling me he was the albatross around the rest of the ticket.

Read him and dozens others—from Zohran to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez—on how the midterms will change America: newyorker.com/news/the-polit…

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Jackie Besinger 🇺🇸 Verified account @JackyBesinger · 2d

Voters delivered a decisive verdict against the Republican establishment and the oligarchs who have controlled it. After decades of prioritizing donor interests, institutional self-preservation, and policies that left ordinary people struggling with costs, wages, and basic accountability, they received exactly what they had earned: public humiliation at the ballot box.
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For four long years, we watched the Texas State Board of Education turn into political theater. Republican party bosses pushed paid and unqualified candidates onto the board, then told them how to vote. Decisions came down already made, and our children's education paid the price.
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If you've sat through those meetings, testified, pushed back against the rubber-stamping, and refused to let ideology run our classrooms, this episode is for you. Today is a new day. Our voices are finally going to count, and showing up as parents and education advocates is about to mean something very different.
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On this episode, we look at where the board is headed under new leadership. We'll name the players who got us here and talk about what has to be fixed. The board's powers are limited, but they include the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the curriculum, and those decisions shape what roughly 5.5 million Texas students learn every day.
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My guest is Gustavo Reveles, State Board of Education member for District 1. “Gustavo worked for 15 years in journalism at both the El Paso Times and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, spending most of his tenure covering Texas public education and pedagogy issues. He also covered municipal government and growth and transportation. His coverage helped improve public-education policies and practices following investigations into improper entitlement spending, testing irregularities and governance violations.
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His work in explanatory journalism centered on the impact of bilingual-education policies on students and their families. Gustavo earned awards from the Texas and New Mexico Associated Press managing editors associations. After journalism, Gustavo joined the Texas public education system as a communications and public relations officer. He has worked at the Canutillo and El Paso independent school districts. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Communications for Canutillo ISD.”
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Gustavo is ready to work with every member of the board, whatever their party. He knows the culture wars have never educated a single child. They only divide us and lead nowhere. His message is simple: excellence for every student. That's what parents have been asking for all along.
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So parents, this is your moment. Join the movement. Get involved, and let's get to work.
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Let's talk about what others aren't talking about. Stay with us.
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Welcome to DIScourse. vimeo.com/1245517877

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Ryan Autullo @RyanAutullo · 2d

New: Texas Supreme Court Justice Debra Lehrmann (R) won't rule out retiring before end of her term.

Her exit would give appointment to Gov Gina Hinojosa, flipping court majority to Dems.

“I have to make a decision by early summer,” she told me. #txlege

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