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Here is today's Texas Minute.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
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• When Texas Republicans go to the polls for the March 3 primary, their ballot will include ten policy propositions. While the results are non-binding, Cary Chesire reports the statements – on which voters mark “yes” or “no” – are designed to inform the policy debates at the GOP state convention this spring, and ahead of the 2021 legislative session.
     
• Redistricting is still more than a year away, but Texas lawmakers have been touring the state for months, discussing the decennial map-drawing process and listening to residents’ concerns. Erin Anderson has the details.
       
• “We hope to have the most transparent redistricting process in the history of Texas.” – State Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford), chairman of the Texas House Redistricting Committee
            
• The 2020 election season finds U.S. Rep. Kay Granger (R–Fort Worth) with an irresponsible voting history and a real estate redevelopment boondoggle overshadowing a decades-long congressional career. Robert Montoya reports her GOP primary challenger, Chris Putnam, plans to bring to Congress what revolutionized the City of Colleyville when he was serving as a councilman: transparency.
       
• “We need fighters, and that’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to go fight.” – Chris Putnam
      
• In a new commentary, Rachel Bovard looks at what Democrats are fighting to protect—and who they are willing to put at risk—to cover themselves in the glory of unfettered abortion.
      
• Meanwhile, Jacob Asmussen has profiled the Lone Star State’s oldest and most effective pro-life organization: Texas Right to Life.
     
• Just because a political meeting takes place while Montgomery County residents are at work doesn’t mean they have to miss out on being informed and holding their elected officials accountable – thanks to the tireless efforts of one local activist. Reagan Reed writes about Bill Brenza’s passion for using technology to level the playing field between the grassroots and the establishment.
   
• Nationally syndicated radio host Chris Salcedo writes about a new effort to remember the Alamo ahead of this year’s “184th anniversary of the sacrifice made by the men who died so that Texas could live.”

• Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has endorsed George Hindman for the open seat in Congressional District 17. Cary Cheshire notes that Hindman’s campaign has knocked on more than 20,000 doors in the central Texas district, and earned the endorsements of Texas Right to Life, Texas Homeschool Coalition, and the Central Texas Republican Assembly. 
        
• Early voting for the March primary election begins in two weeks – on Tuesday, February 18, 2020. An updated list of TFR’s current endorsements can be found online.