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Hundreds of polling places have closed across the state as Texas leads the nation in what civil rights advocates call one of the most pernicious tactics aimed at keeping minority voters from casting ballots. Texas has shuttered 750 polling places since 2012, the vast majority coming after the Supreme Court in 2013 ruled states like …

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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett was on hand to honor the music trailblazers and acknowledge their “steep uphill climb to make it.” “They are our own special ‘West Side Story,’” Doggett said. Read full article **************************************** News Credit Publish Date: September 11, 2019 1:43 pm Author: Hector Saldana Source: San Antonio Express News

A new quarter honoring the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park was unveiled Thursday. The special coin, depicting on its reverse four icons of the Missions’ history, is the 49th coin in the U.S. Mint’s “America the Beautiful” program. The project began in 2010 to depict national parks and other sites in all 50 states …

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“President Trump raids military dollars to waste on an unnecessary wall that he falsely claimed Mexico would pay for,” said U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-San Antonio and Austin. “This is just more of his dangerous, un-American abuse of presidential power — overriding Congress and the people, rejecting true security needs. Always taking from the deserving …

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Publish Date: August 29, 2019 1:43 pm Author: Chelsea Moreno Source: KXAN A local organization is hosting lawmakers, local officials and gun control advocates for a rally at the Texas Capitol on Saturday to honor lives lost to gun violence and to “demand common-sense gun reform,” according to a press release. The Texas chapter of Moms Demand …

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Community Discussion with Rep. Lloyd Doggett Saturday, August 17 2 PM at Patsy’s Cafe

Democratic U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett of Austin and Veronica Escobar of El Paso also spoke at the event held at a Texas AFL-CIO auditorium. Doggett called the lawsuit “collusion … between an indicted Republican attorney general and the Trump administration to destroy the protections that so many Texans and so many Americans rely on.” Read …

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Survivors of domestic violence and women’s advocates used a Tuesday evening town hall to urge elected officials to reverse a disturbing local trend. An overflow crowd at the Mennonite Fellowship Sanctuary listened as women shared stories of domestic abuse and offered suggestions on how to remedy what they called a growing crisis. Democratic U.S. Reps. …

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“This long-overdue legal action is needed to keep this bad president from setting a bad precedent,” Ways and Means member Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) said Tuesday. “It should not take a court order to affirm that ‘shall’ means ‘shall.’ But Trump will do what it takes to delay the inevitable, hiding his tax returns as …

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Congressman Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat representing portions of Austin and San Antonio, said he did not see value in adding additional troops to border operations. “We ought to be sending the public health service, the crisis that exists at the border is a humanitarian crisis,” Doggett said in a Friday interview after Abbott’s announcement. Read …

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