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							<title><![CDATA[The Frenzied Sprint Among Maine Dems To Replace Platner]]></title>
							<link>https://www.kten.com/news/politics/the-frenzied-sprint-among-maine-democrats-hoping-to-replace-graham-platner/article_cb7c1422-7e2e-5caa-8760-2a4c514c4ccb.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Svitek</author>
							<description><![CDATA[County party chairs inundated with calls. An endless stream of Google sign-up forms and spreadsheets. And a disgraced former nominee looming over it all, haunting the party's hopes]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speaker Johnson&rsquo;s Day of Reckoning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Svitek</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) faces a day of reckoning, trying to keep the speaker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gavel with one of the slimmest majorities in congressional history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ken Paxton Rides Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ken-paxton-emerges-victorious-from-yet-another-career-scandal/ar-AA1gQzT8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Svitek</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beset by years of legal, personal and political problems, Texas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' scandal-resilient attorney general scored his biggest vindication yet Saturday when the state Senate voted for acquittal in his impeachment trial.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Flores Flips Dem Stronghold in S. Texas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/14/texas-special-election-tx-34-mayra-flores-dan-sanchez/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Svitek</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mayra Flores, a Republican, won a special election to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela. Another election will be held in November.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018]]></title>
							<link>https://www.texastribune.org/2018/04/03/orourke-says-he-raised-staggering-67m-first-quarter-2018/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Svitek</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, says he raked in over $6.7 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first quarter of 2018. It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[TX-23: Ethics Charges Fly as Hurd-Gallego Rematch Comes Down to Wire]]></title>
							<link>https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/04/tx23-ethics-charges-reach-new-level/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Svitek</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Allegations of unethical behavior are reaching a new volume in the home stretch of Texas' only competitive congressional race, a heated rematch between U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-San Antonio, and Alpine Democrat Pete Gallego.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[TX-23: Hurd Raises Almost Twice as Much as Gallego]]></title>
							<link>http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/16/report-hurd-raises-almost-twice-much-gallego/92216516/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Patrick Svitek</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They cover the third quarter of this year, from July 1 through Sept. 30, and reflect the most action-packed period yet in Texas' only competitive congressional race.]]></description>
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