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Texas Water Board’s Data Center Deadline Arrives With No Public Report
Abbott gave the Texas Water Development Board until Oct. 14 to report on penalizing data centers that skip the state's water-use survey; the report is not yet public.
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- TEXIT Explained
What the Supreme Court Actually Decided About Texas in 1869
Texas v. White was a lawsuit over bonds.
- TNM News
Texas Nationalist Movement Launches buyTexian, a Directory of Businesses Backing Texas Independence
buyTexian lists Texas businesses whose owners have taken the Declaration, searchable by trade and town, free to list and reviewed by hand.
- TEXIT Explained
What Texas Kept When It Joined the Union in 1845
Texas joined the union in 1845 as an independent republic. It kept its public lands and its debts and won a clause allowing four more states.
- Daily Briefing
Daily Briefing: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Voting rights groups sue Texas over more than 500,000 unprocessed voter registrations, the state awards $3.7 million to rebuild job-training programs at 13 colleges, a former Alberta premier warns that separatists could...
- North America
Albertans Vote Monday on Whether to Seek a Binding Vote on Leaving Canada
Albertans vote October 19 on whether their government should begin the legal process toward a binding referendum on leaving Canada. Polls are open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Texas News
Maryland Company Files First Small Nuclear Reactor Request on Texas Grid
Blue Energy's 1,320-megawatt nuclear phase in Victoria County is the first small modular reactor request in ERCOT's queue, behind two gas phases due in 2030 and 2031.
- Daily Briefing
Daily Briefing: Tuesday, October 13, 2026
A Maryland company’s nuclear project enters the Texas grid queue, five Texas colleges win approval for Workforce Pell grants, the state awards $20 million in job-training grants, Texas congressmen press the Justice...
- Africa
Latin America Splits Over Western Sahara as UN Mission’s Deadline Nears
CELAC backed self-determination for Western Sahara at the UN, but Paraguay disowned the paragraph and Peru and the Bahamas backed Morocco's autonomy plan, with the UN mission's mandate ending October 31.
- Texas News
Texas Appeals Federal Order to Air Condition Every State Prison by 2029
The state asked the Fifth Circuit to overturn a deadline to cool all 104 prisons by 2029 and asked the trial judge to suspend the order, citing a $1.5 billion cost.
- Daily Briefing
Daily Briefing: Monday, October 12, 2026
Texas appeals the federal order to air condition every state prison, Austin’s school district faces the cost of state intervention, Corpus Christi’s desalination plant is still unbuilt after $50 million, Alberta opens...
- Texas News
Paxton Proposes Public Registry of Texas Land Owned by Foreign Adversaries
Proposed rules under Senate Bill 17 would let any Texan report a suspected foreign-adversary land purchase and would create a public map of covered properties.
- Daily Briefing
Daily Briefing: Sunday, October 11, 2026
The state finalizes its ninth Texas Energy Fund loan for a West Texas gas plant, local sales tax allocations rise 11.6 percent, senators hear that educator misconduct reports more than tripled, and...
- North America
Danielle Smith Rules Out a Second Alberta Separation Vote if Province Stays
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said there will be no second separation vote 'as long as I'm premier' if Albertans vote to remain on October 19.
- Daily Briefing
Daily Briefing: Saturday, October 10, 2026
Attorney General Ken Paxton proposes a public registry of Texas land held by foreign adversaries, Comptroller Don Huffines moves to end the sales tax on medical records systems, Travis County clears a...
- Political Analysis
Most Fed Officials See Another Rate Increase Coming Before Year End
Minutes of the Fed's September meeting show most officials expect another rate increase by year end. Texas local governments owe $368.30 billion, with $63.71 billion more approved by voters.
- Political Analysis
Out-of-State Money Now 21 Cents of Every Dollar in Texas Politics
Contributors with out-of-state addresses supplied 20.8 percent of the $886.0 million in Texas state politics this cycle, up from 19.8 percent in August, whoboughttexas.com data show.
- Late Night Coffee Talk
Quebec Gets a Third Vote, Granbury Gets Stonewalled, and Texans Still Wait for Theirs
Quebec voters swept the Parti Québécois into the lead this week on a promise to put independence back on the ballot.
- North America
Alberta and Saskatchewan Premiers Reject Musk’s Call to Leave Canada
Saskatchewan's Scott Moe answered Elon Musk's call for the province to leave Canada with one word, and Alberta's Danielle Smith said she strongly disagrees.
- Daily Briefing
Daily Briefing: Friday, October 9, 2026
Two Houston lawmakers propose limits on state school takeovers, the Pentagon sets a December firing squad execution at Fort Hood, Washington closes fiscal 2026 with a $2.0 trillion deficit, Federal Reserve minutes...
- Culture
Texian Volunteers Captured Goliad’s Presidio in a 30-Minute Night Attack
On the night of October 9, 1835, Collinsworth's volunteers took Presidio La Bahía in about 30 minutes, cutting the Mexican link between San Antonio and the Gulf.
- North America
More Than 3,000 Alberta Referendum Mail-In Ballots Returned Invalid
Elections Alberta says more than 3,000 referendum mail-in ballots came back invalid, with voters still able to fix them before the October 19 vote.
- Texas News
Texas Utility Regulators Sue Paxton to Keep Data Center Locations Secret
The Public Utility Commission sued the attorney general to keep secret the counties and water regions of Texas data centers and crypto mines, citing terrorism risk.
- In The Media
Fort Worth Magazine Takes the Texas Nationalist Movement’s Citizenship Test, and Passes
A Fort Worth Magazine columnist took TNM's Texas Citizenship Test and passed, though not with a perfect 20, and quoted TNM President Daniel Miller.
