Texas GOP Platform Tightens Its Grip on National Conservative Politics
TL;DR
At Texas's biennial Republican convention, delegates advanced a more extreme draft platform—pushing bans on Sharia law, hard-line immigration measures, H-1B visa reforms, and other conservative priorities—reflecting Texas's growing influence on national Republican policy and a strategy to enforce party priorities during the upcoming legislative session.
- Texas’s GOP platform is getting more extreme — and influential The Washington Post
- To Defeat Democrats, Texas Governor Embraces the Hard Right The New York Times
- Texas GOP Chair Abraham George loses reelection at convention The Texas Tribune
- Abbott Announces Support To End Open Primaries In Texas – “Only Republicans Will Vote In Republican Primaries” Yahoo
- Texas GOP Brings a Live Elephant to Its Convention. Then It Starts Peeing People.com
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