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From liberal teachers to ADHD medications, blame lands on everything aside from lack of proper gun restrictions

Utopia (United States) (AFP) - In a tiny Texas town called Utopia, a sign at the entrance to its only school warns that staffers are packing guns -- a measure designed to prevent shootings like the one that left 19 kids and two teachers dead down the road in Uvalde.

Welcome to The Heart of the Primaries, Republican Edition

Paxton alleged the Texas state bar was controlled by “leftists” and accused it of trying to “bully me”

Welcome to the Thursday, May 26, Brew. 

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s victory in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary was more than another signal of former President Donald Trump’s primacy within the GOP.

Incumbent Ken Paxton defeated George P. Bush in the May 24 Republican Party primary runoff for Texas attorney general. In the March 1 primary, Paxton received 42.7% of the vote, while Bush received 22.4%. Both candidates advanced to a runoff because no candidate received more than 50% of the vote.

Some of the Trump-endorsed candidates won. But for the most part it seems like his sway in 2022 may have peaked

Georgia losses add to losing record for Trump’s candidates, but his hard-right politics is winning among Republicans.

WASHINGTON — Several candidates who back former President Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud won Republican primaries for governor, senator and attorney general Tuesday. They join other election deniers who have won nominations in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Last year Governor Greg Abbott signed into law several measures making it easier to own and carry guns in the state