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Sen. @JohnCornyn just delivered two major wins in the fight against fentanyl:
✔️ Opens access to next-gen overdose meds
✔️ Grows addiction medicine workforce
“These bills will help save lives.”
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Texas Voters Want Washington to Honor the Medicaid Promise, and They Want the Call Made Closer to Home texaspolitics.com/2026/10/23…
The Energy Department just authorized an emergency exchange of up to 400,000 barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to keep Phillips 66's Lake Charles Refinery in Louisiana running.
The deal: Phillips 66 has to return the borrowed crude plus additional premium barrels.
Smart use of the SPR, or not?
✈️ Electric air taxis in Texas? Archer Aviation wants to turn some 60-to-90-minute drives into 10-to-20-minute flights across Austin, DFW and Houston.
The catch: it's still pursuing FAA certification.
Would you ride one?
💰 Texas secures a $45 million settlement with Gilead over Medicaid kickback claims.
"Doctors ought to prescribe medication in accordance with what is in the best interest of the patient," said @KenPaxtonTX.
Gilead denied the allegations. Your take?
texaspolitics.com/2026/10/23…
🌾 A Pasadena, Texas fertilizer project is slated for about $100 million in proposed USDA funding.
It's part of a $1.34 billion push announced by Vice President J.D. Vance and Agriculture Secretary @BrookeLRollins to expand U.S. fertilizer production.
What do you make of it?
⚡ A 50-megawatt AI data center is planned for Briscoe County, Texas, right next to a 150-megawatt wind farm.
Soluna CEO John Belizaire: "We have said for a long time that the constraint in AI is energy access, not chips."
Is he right?
bigenergynews.com/2026/10/so…
🚨 BREAKING: The FBI arrested a 17-year-old from McKinney, Texas, for plotting to assassinate Rep. Keith Self.
Self: "I will not back down."
@realannapaulina: "This is NOT NORMAL."
Where are the condemnations?
texaspolitics.com/2026/10/23…
LONESTAR 10.23.2026 🗳️
Dallas County set a new opening-day early voting record. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed @KenPaxtonTX for Senate. And Comptroller Don Huffines is barring businesses that require COVID vaccine proof from state contracts.
texaspolitics.com/2026/10/23…
🇮🇱 @JoaquinCastrotx wants Congress to act after the IDF detained NY-10 Democratic nominee Brad Lander while he was harvesting olives in the West Bank.
“If American public servants, diplomats and journalists are targeted, imagine what Palestinian families face every day.”
Should Congress pass his Stop the Settlements Act?
texaspolitics.com/2026/10/23…
AP Exclusive: Trump’s border chief defends wall plans in Texas’ Big Bend despite a court setback texaspolitics.com/2026/10/23…
Fear and hope in Texas: Paxton vs. Talarico in an expensive US Senate showdown texaspolitics.com/2026/10/23…
💰 TEXAS: SWEPCO customers could see bills jump 7.7%.
A typical home using 1,000 kWh a month would go from $135.28 to $145.72.
In the "black box" settlement, customers would also pay $10.6 million in rate-case expenses.
Should regulators approve it?
bigenergynews.com/2026/10/sw…
🛢️ USGS: Alaska's North Slope holds an estimated 96 TRILLION cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas, nearly 3x its proven reserves.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: "Alaska is one of America's greatest energy frontiers"
Time to tap it?
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines: businesses that demand COVID vaccine proof from customers can't get contracts or grants from his office.
"The government has no authority to demand medical papers from Texans just so they can access basic services."
Right call or overreach?
Full story: texaspolitics.com/2026/10/22…
