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Recent Briefings
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: the Iran ceasefire holds its first live-fire exchange as Trump calls US retaliatory strikes a 'love tap,' Tennessee finalizes the first post-VRA redistricting map, the…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: a one-page US-Iran memo edges closer as Trump pauses Project Freedom, the White House sets a July 4 deadline for the CLARITY Act, and Texas counties push back on data …
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: Trump pauses Project Freedom as a Pakistan-brokered peace memo takes shape — but his own intel says the February strikes never set back Iran's nuclear program. The Sup…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: Project Freedom turns kinetic in the Strait of Hormuz, civil rights groups sue to block Texas SB 4 before May 15, the CLARITY Act stablecoin compromise sends Bitcoin p…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: Iran claims a missile strike on a US destroyer hours after Trump launches a Hormuz escort mission, severe storms reload over DFW Tuesday-Wednesday, and Texas lawmakers…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: another severe-weather reload aims at DFW, Fort Worth voters approve the full $845M bond, GOP states race to redraw maps after the VRA ruling, and Trump escalates rhet…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: Trump tells Congress the Iran war is 'terminated' to dodge the War Powers clock, Louisiana suspends its congressional primary after the SCOTUS redistricting ruling, se…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: the record DHS shutdown ends as Trump sidesteps the Iran War Powers deadline, the Mineral Wells tornado is rated EF-3, and Texas's draft water plan suddenly carries a …
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: the House unlocks $70B in ICE funding to end the record 74-day DHS shutdown, SCOTUS rolls back Voting Rights Act protections in a sweeping 6-3 ruling one day after gre…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: a confirmed tornado in Mineral Wells triggers an Abbott disaster declaration for Parker, Wise, and Lamar counties; the 2nd Circuit strikes down Trump's mandatory ICE d…