I'm so tired of these things. They are just big and wrong. I've gotten a total of 10 within the last 3 weeks and my family back home have gotten like 15. The things that paxton is "promising" are stupid because this man has been in office for a decade and is just now deciding these things are important? Its stupid he is sending these out by the hundreds essentially but I've yet to get one anti Ken paxton.

The Houston Chronicle editorial board calls on voters to boot Don Huffines as controller given his refusal to provide basic information about how vouchers are being spent. Here's a key quote:

Texas Comptroller Don Huffines just gave Democrats and Republicans alike a good reason to kick him out of office: He doesn’t want to do his job. 

The comptroller serves as the chief financial officer for Texas, overseeing the state's finances and serving as a watchdog over taxpayer funds. And Huffines has made it clear that he won’t play that role when it comes to $1 billion in taxpayer-funded school vouchers. 

His office has refused to disclose to the Houston Chronicle how state funding has been distributed to private schools and vendors through the program. Letting taxpayers know how their public dollars are spent would be a “dangerous and unethical doxxing of Texas students” according to spokesperson Jeff Norwood.

That argument makes no sense. The public knows how taxpayer funds are spent at public schools and charter schools without “doxxing” any kids. In fact, the comptroller's office is currently conducting a "performance review" of four public school districts. But when it comes to vouchers, it seems that Huffines either wants to keep you in the dark, or is too lazy or incompetent to actually do his job. 

According to Ryan's Data and Research, Democrats hold a 75,000 vote advantage over Republicans after week 1 of early voting.

Another ringing endorsement from a staunch Republican..

Hi, r/TexasPolitics!  

I’m Rebecca Morin (u/RebeccaMorin), a senior national news reporter with USA TODAY. As a South Texas native, I’ve long had a personal connection to the state and a passion for following Texas politics. 

With the Nov. 3 election approaching, I’m looking at these major questions: Could Latino voters help swing Texas blue? What issues matter most to these voters? How could turnout affect the results? And what does their vote tell us about the changing political landscape in Texas? 

See my recent stories:

- Latino excitement for James Talarico could power Texas Senate upset

- Bobby Pulido, a Tejano star, is trying to flip a South Texas seat

I’m here to answer anything about Latino voters, turnout or the changing political landscape in Texas. Ask me anything! 

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What to know ahead of midterms:

- Voter resources

- Texas-specific election guide

In mid-October, just as early voting opened for the Nov. 3 election, Texas families started getting a glossy fold-out brochure addressed to the "students" of their household. Titled "Texas Trans & LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide," it covered legal emancipation from parents, hormone therapy, and getting gender-affirming care outside Texas.

Pieces turned up in Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, the Panhandle and Texarkana. Reporting says they went largely to Republican and Hispanic households.

A week earlier, mass text messages had promoted the same "guide"

Why it looked fake

- The real group says it didn't send them.** The brochure promoted the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT), a real advocacy group, and linked to its website. TENT says it didn't write, approve or send the brochures or the texts

- Other LGBTQ+ groups deny it too. OutYouth, the Montrose Center, Resource Center and Lambda Legal all say they had no part in it.

- The sender is a shell company. The return address names a "Texas Transgender Student Union." The only entity by that name is a Wyoming company formed Sept. 2 through a service that registers businesses anonymously. Its filing lists an organizer, "Taylor Newman," but no owner

- The return address doesn't exist. The listed address, in Meadows Place near Houston, isn't a real address. It's one digit off from TENT's actual address.

Who was hurt

TENT and other LGBTQ+ groups got angry calls and threats. TENT suspended its programming, and OutYouth in Austin temporarily closed

Why people suspect a political motive

Texas has a close U.S. Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico. Mail that seems to come from a trans rights group, sent to conservative households during early voting, could stir up anger at Democrats.

A Republican district attorney in West Texas, Sarah Stogner, called the mailers an obvious attempt to agitate voters and opened a forgery investigation

The paper trail

- The postage permit. Bulk mail carries a printed permit mark instead of stamps. The Postal Service says the permit on these envelopes belongs to Three Z Printing, an Illinois company. CBS notes that owning the permit doesn't prove Three Z printed the brochures, and the company hasn't commented

- The mail tracking. A Maryland firm, SnailWorks, says it was hired to track the mail's delivery. It says it doesn't print or send mail and won't name its client, except to say it isn't the House Republicans' campaign committee

- How many went out. Numbers printed on the envelopes suggest the mailing may have reached more than 2 million addresses. That's an estimate from envelope markings, not a confirmed figure.

The political connections

- The printer's owners give only to Republicans. Federal records show the Zerrusen family, which owns Three Z, has given about $662,000 since 2012, all to Republicans and much of it to Trump committees

- One owner lives in Dallas. Matt Zerrusen, an owner who also runs a Catholic campus ministry called Newman Ministry, posts photos with Trump and Charlie Kirk

- A 2019 Facebook post shows Matt traveling to Mar-a-Lago on a private jet with Doug Deason. Since 2010, the Deasons have given well over $10 million to Republicans, and about $1 million of it has gone to the Paxton.

What we don't know

Nobody has publicly shown who ordered or paid for the brochures. The links above are connections, not proof.

What happens next

- TENT has asked a Travis County court to let it question the texting company and the Wyoming company under oath. It requested a hearing on Oct. 27

- Republican state Rep. Jeff Leach has asked Attorney General Paxton's office to investigate

- New campaign finance reports, due shortly before the election, could show mid-October payments for mail.

The court case is the most likely way the real sender gets named.

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Records obtained by the Austin American-Statesman show that as Longhorns called on UT to weigh in, staff meticulously monitored online traffic. In the days following, concerned emails from donors, parents and students peppered the president’s inbox.

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We will be hosting an AMA on r/texas with the news and politics editors and writers at Texas Monthly on Thursday, October 29 at 12 p.m. CT. Here's the original post and where you will find us Thursday: https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/o8s4Xgl9HW

Keith Self says his campaign's polling ranked Sharia as the second-most important issue in TX-03.

Evan Hunt calls the attention given to Sharia a distraction from issues affecting most Americans.

They're running to represent the same district, but voters haven't seen them defend these positions against each other.