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Recent Briefings
A federal immigration shooting in North Austin has triggered an immediate jurisdictional standoff between city leadership and the Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile, the long-standing North Te…
We are tracking a major discrepancy in ERCOT's power grid models this morning, as West Texas landowners demand a forensic audit of the data used to approve new transmission lines. Plus, the Pentagon c…
Today's lead brings a major policy reversal from the Justice Department, which just issued a formal opinion declaring federal age limits on commercial handgun sales unconstitutional. Down in Texas, ER…
Federal financial regulators are bypassing congressional gridlock to issue unilateral crypto exemptions following this week's failed Senate legislative overhaul. At the state level, Texas is restoring…
A federal judge has curtailed the EPA's civil rights permitting authority nationwide, while the House moves quickly on targeted crypto tax relief following the collapse of the Senate's digital asset o…
The crypto industry's massive legislative push has stalled in the Senate. We have the breakdown of the failed cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, plus new Congressional Budget Office estimates pushing th…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: Governor Abbott escalates his ongoing regulatory push against Texas data centers, while the Supreme Court issues a final block on the federal mail-in voting rules we'v…
As the Senate finally brings its digital asset overhaul to the floor, Texas regulators are cracking down on the massive data center pipeline seeking to tap the state's power grid.
Federal environmental rollbacks and escalating Middle East maritime strikes are rewriting the playbook for Texas infrastructure today. From evaporated water supplies in Childress to a compound crisis …
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: The ripple effects of the ongoing Middle East maritime conflict are reaching domestic fuel supplies, prompting the White House to consider emergency refining mandates.…