Daily Briefing: Wednesday, October 14, 2026

The League of Women Voters of Texas and MOVE Texas Civic Fund have sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas secretary of state in Bexar County’s 224th District Court after more than 500,000 voter registration applications submitted through the department’s web portal were never processed, The Texas Tribune reported. The two agencies sent county election officials a backlog of records last month that had been held up by a software update error, with at least 500,000 dating back to October 2025. The groups are enforcing a 2021 settlement that requires online voter registration whenever Texans renew or update a driver’s license or state ID. Neither agency immediately responded to the Tribune’s request for comment.

Thirteen Texas public two-year colleges will share $3.7 million in Perkins Leadership Grants to build or redesign programs for in-demand jobs and to recruit and keep instructors, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board awards the grants.

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, who campaigns for the province to remain in Canada, told CTV’s Question Period that the fewer Albertans vote in Monday’s referendum, the better the separatist side’s chances. “If turnout is 40 per cent or below, I think they could actually win,” Kenney said, CTV News reported. Prime Minister Mark Carney has accepted invitations to Forever Canadian rallies in Calgary on Thursday and Edmonton on Friday, CBC News reported. Advance voting runs through Saturday.

The Scottish National Party will launch a campaign called Choose Scotland at its annual conference in Aberdeen, with an independence survey delivered to nearly 1.5 million Scots and the party’s largest online advertising campaign outside an election, The National reported. The party describes it as its biggest independence campaign this decade. The conference opens Thursday.

Somaliland’s foreign minister, Abdirahman Dahir Adam, welcomed remarks by President Donald Trump, who called Somaliland “a totally different country” from Somalia at an October 12 rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Horn Diplomat reported. “President Trump’s acknowledgment of Somaliland as separate from Somalia reflects a reality that cannot be altered by statements from Mogadishu: Somaliland is a sovereign, self-governing nation,” Adam wrote. The remarks did not announce any change in American recognition policy, The Africa Report noted. Israel became the first country to recognize Somaliland in December.

Five in-person events appear on the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) calendar over the next week. Llano County volunteers hold a meet and greet at The Falls in Llano at 6 p.m. Thursday, then staff an information table on the Llano Courthouse Square at 8 a.m. Saturday. Saturday also brings a Cherokee County information table at a park in Bullard and a Taylor County table at the Texas Gun & Knife Show in Abilene. Wood County hosts a meet and greet at Jalapeno Tree in Mineola at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 20.