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href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/04/texas-voters-embrace-trumps-rigged-election-talk-and-gop-leaders-flinch/"> <img class="lede_art" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161106162500im_/https://cdn.tribtalk.org/media/photos/2016/11/Trump_Debate_TT.jpg"> </a> <div class="article_body"> <div class="category"><a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/category/politics/">Politics</a></div> <header> <h2> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/04/texas-voters-embrace-trumps-rigged-election-talk-and-gop-leaders-flinch/">Texas voters embrace Trump's "rigged election" talk – and GOP leaders flinch</a> </h2> <p class="byline">By <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/author/jim-henson/">Jim Henson</a> and <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/author/joshua-blank/">Joshua Blank</a>, Nov. 4, 2016</p> </header> <div class="comment_count "> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/04/texas-voters-embrace-trumps-rigged-election-talk-and-gop-leaders-flinch/#comments">1</a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>After more than a decade of fomenting suspicions about the voting process, Texas GOP leaders find themselves called upon to defend the overall integrity of a process that has delivered most of the political system to their party over the very same time period.</p> </div> </div> </article> </li> <li> <article class="hero category-politics"> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/04/judicial-restraint-led-to-compromise-in-post-scalia-supreme-court/"> <img class="lede_art" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161106162500im_/https://cdn.tribtalk.org/media/photos/2016/11/SCOTUSTT.jpg"> </a> <div class="article_body"> <div class="category"><a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/category/politics/">Politics</a></div> <header> <h2> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/04/judicial-restraint-led-to-compromise-in-post-scalia-supreme-court/">Judicial restraint led to compromise in post-Scalia Supreme Court</a> </h2> <p class="byline">By <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/author/anya-bidwell/">Anya Bidwell</a>, Nov. 4, 2016</p> </header> <div class="comment_count "> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/04/judicial-restraint-led-to-compromise-in-post-scalia-supreme-court/#comments">1</a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court found success by endeavoring to build bipartisan coalitions and resolve cases on narrow grounds rather than trying to establish far-reaching categorical rules.</p> </div> </div> </article> </li> <li> <article class="hero category-politics"> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/03/despite-trumps-rhetoric-immigrants-make-texas-and-us-great/"> <img class="lede_art" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161106162500im_/https://cdn.tribtalk.org/media/photos/2016/11/trump-fort_worth.jpg"> </a> <div class="article_body"> <div class="category"><a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/category/politics/">Politics</a></div> <header> <h2> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/03/despite-trumps-rhetoric-immigrants-make-texas-and-us-great/">Despite Trump's rhetoric, immigrants make Texas — and U.S. — great</a> </h2> <p class="byline">By <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/author/joseph-kopser/">Joseph Kopser</a>, Nov. 3, 2016</p> </header> <div class="comment_count hidden"> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/03/despite-trumps-rhetoric-immigrants-make-texas-and-us-great/#comments">0</a> </div> <div class="summary"> <p>Texas has long been a place of hope for immigrants of all ages, origins, eras and beliefs — contrary to the Republican presidential nominee's divisive rhetoric.</p> </div> </div> </article> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="secondary_content"> <article class="article-summary category-politics"> <div class="media"> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/02/what-the-uttt-poll-tells-us-about-texans-support-for-donald-trump/"> <img class="lede_art" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161106162500im_/https://cdn.tribtalk.org/media/photos/2016/11/voting.jpg"> </a> <div class="category"><a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/category/politics/">Politics</a></div> <div class="comment_count hidden"> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/02/what-the-uttt-poll-tells-us-about-texans-support-for-donald-trump/#comments">0</a> </div> </div> <div class="article_body"> <h2> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/02/what-the-uttt-poll-tells-us-about-texans-support-for-donald-trump/">What the UT/TT Poll tells us about Texans' support for Donald Trump</a> </h2> <p class="byline"> 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class="pubdate" datetime="Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:57:27 -0500" title="2016-11-04 15:57"> Nov. 4, 2016 </time> </p> <p>Check out Pearson’s political science and American government webinars centered on professional development opportunities for educators.</p> </div> </article> <article class="article-summary category-health"> <div class="media"> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/10/31/texas-lays-to-rest-unequal-treatment-of-aborted-babies/"> <img class="lede_art" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161106162500im_/https://cdn.tribtalk.org/media/photos/2016/10/Anti_Abortion_SCOTUS2TT.jpg"> </a> <div class="category"><a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/category/health/">Health</a></div> <div class="comment_count "> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/10/31/texas-lays-to-rest-unequal-treatment-of-aborted-babies/#comments">6</a> </div> </div> <div class="article_body"> <h2> <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161106162500/http://patientaccesstexas.com/" rel="nofollow">Greg Hansch, LMSW, NAMI Texas</a>,</span> <time class="pubdate" datetime="Tue, 4 Oct 2016 09:32:40 -0500" title="2016-10-04 09:32"> Oct. 4, 2016 </time> </p> <p>Some insurance companies are already signaling that they again will attempt to take doctors and other health care providers out of the driver’s seat when it comes to determining which medicines Medicaid patients can receive.</p> </div> </article> <article class="article-summary category-health"> <div class="media"> <a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/2016/11/01/medicaid-expansion-is-still-the-wrong-choice-for-texas/"> <img class="lede_art" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161106162500im_/https://cdn.tribtalk.org/media/photos/2016/10/MedicaidMoney.jpg"> </a> <div class="category"><a href="/web/20161106162500/https://www.tribtalk.org/category/health/">Health</a></div> <div class="comment_count "> <a 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