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The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted depositions that were scheduled to begin Thursday in the whistleblower case against Attorney General Ken Paxton. The all-GOP court issued an order Tuesday staying the depositions and giving the parties until Feb. 29 to respond with their broader legal arguments. The decision was made public within hours of Paxton’s …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) reacted to news of the federal investigation into Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) by calling her “loud” and describing her husband as a “thug.” “She doesn’t even support the police,” he said, referring to Bush’s support for defunding the police. “But the idea to pay her thug money to try to help protect her this …

CNN reports: House Republicans voted early Wednesday to advance their impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, moving closer to taking the rare step of impeaching a Cabinet official. The move sets up a vote on the articles by the full House of Representatives, though the date of that vote has not yet been set. The House …

Florida Politics reports: If Florida bans cultivated meat, it will be the first in the nation to do so. With food scarcity challenging modern agriculture, those behind the development of alternative protein sources fear this will set a dangerous precedent. That hasn’t stopped legislation from plowing forward in the House and Senate. Language completely banning the manufacturing, sale or distribution …

ABC News reports: Ohio lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow execution by nitrogen gas, a controversial practice critics call untested and lacking in evidence that it’s more humane than lethal injection, after Alabama became the first state to execute someone with nitrogen gas. Ohio state Reps. Phil Plummer and Brian Stewart, both Republicans, introduced legislation during a press …

The Denver Post reports: A “doxxing truck” campaign run by a conservative group arrived at the University of Colorado Boulder’s campus Tuesday displaying images and names of the university’s Ethnic Studies Department faculty. The truck was spotted outside the Hale Science building while depicting the headshots of faculty members under the headline, “Boulder’s Leading Antisemites.” The truck campaign is being …

Hate pastor Jack Hibbs last appeared here when he declared that Jews can only survive the war with Hamas by converting to Jesus: When He first came to earth, the majority of the Jewish people rejected Jesus as their Messiah. But Jack Hibbs, the founder and pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino Hills, California, says as a brutal …

Florida Politics reports: “Expel from Congress, denaturalize and deport,” urged Ron DeSantis about U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is taking criticism from the Right for comments she made privileging Somalia over the United States. As Newsweek notes, Omar recently told a crowd of Somali American constituents that she was “Somalian first, Muslim second” and “here to protect the interests of …

“My opponent is a complete liar. She’s a socialist, she’s a liar and she’s a radical. I’ve been clear — I’m pro-baby, I’m pro-life. I think we have to have reasonable limitations for rape, incest and the life of the mother. In the Senate every Democrat has voted for abortion up until the moment of birth. She ought to say …

“Are we really in this country going to have two 80-year-olds running for president? It is a fact that when you are their age you have mental decline. I don’t care who you are. You have mental decline. He didn’t just get me confused, he mentioned it over and over and over again. He’s not what he was in 2016. …

NBC News reports: Members of the House Homeland Security Committee are meeting Tuesday to discuss the Republican-led impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. House Republicans accuse Mayorkas and the Biden administration of disregarding federal laws on immigration and seek to make Mayorkas the second Cabinet official impeached in U.S. history. Tuesday’s hearing is another step toward a formal …

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona state Sen. Anthony Kern, one of the Republicans being investigated by Attorney General Kris Mayes for falsely certifying that the state’s electoral college votes should be awarded to Donald Trump instead of winner Joe Biden, has come up with a novel approach to protect election stealers in the future: Make it legal. Kern has introduced …

Beaumont’s CBS affiliate reports: Daniel Troy Leblanc, 44, is held on a $500,000 bond set by Justice of the Peace Ben Collins Sr. The judge has ordered that if Leblanc posts bond, he avoid all contact with House Speaker Dade Phelan and wear a GPS ankle monitor. According to the DPS, on Monday, January 15, Special Agents from the Texas …

Vice News reports: Paranoia about federal entrapment is looming large over the “Take Our Border Back” convoy, which departed Virginia Beach Monday morning and plans to arrive in Texas later this week. By noon Monday, after a few hours on the road, the convoy had amassed just a few dozen participants—so far, predominantly men over the age of 60. The …

The Associated Press reports: Republican state Attorney General Dave Yost scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss “next steps to kickstart” Ohio’s capital punishment system. He has expressed support for the nitrogen gas method used for the first time in Alabama last week, when convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was put to death with nitrogen gas administered through a …

The Messenger reports: Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., has nominated former President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing the “historic” Abraham Accords, which were signed between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain in 2020. “Donald Trump was instrumental in facilitating the first new peace agreements in the Middle East in almost 30 years,” Tenney told Fox News Digital …

“They are vile and disgusting comments coming from the far-left. Sean, the most racist in the country are liberals. The bigotry that comes from the far radical left, it’s just normal these days. Why? Because they’re trying not just to attack me, but they’re trying to make sure that any other minority who will think for themselves and consider the …

Reuters reports: Two days after a man called in a fake emergency at the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, she was targeted by a second “swatting” attempt on New Year’s Day, this time by someone who said Haley had shot her daughter, according to an incident report seen by Reuters. A Charleston County sheriff’s deputy responded …

Raw Story reports: The newly-elected Arizona Republican Party chair, Gina Swoboda, proudly told longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon on his “war room” show that the former president personally urged her to run for the position and vowed to continue pushing lawsuits on his behalf to restrict access to voting in Arizona. In response to Bannon asking her how she …

Florida Politics reports: Sen. Jonathan Martin’s legislation (SB 1530) would ban counties and municipalities from permitting public sleeping or public camping on public property without explicit permission via temporary permits, a move deemed by the bill language to fulfill an “important state interest.” Localities may designate certain public property for sleeping or camping with the sanction of the Department of …