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It’s Not Just Redistricting. Here Are All the Ways the Texas GOP Is Consolidating Power.
On Thursday night, as lawmakers in Austin closed the books on a special legislative session that upended state elections, leaders of the Denton County Republican Party gathered in the local elections administration office to debate: Does Representative Jared Patterson, who has typically ranked among the most conservative members of the Texas House, deserve the political death sentence?Patterson, a Frisco Republican, had established himself over three terms as the face of the party’s push to remove LGBTQ books from libraries across the state. And the Texas GOP was on a hot streak: Republicans passed 42 priority bills during the 2025 regular session before returning to Austin this summer to curtail access to abortion pills, pass the so-called bathroom bill—mandating that transgender Texans use the bathrooms corresponding…The post It’s Not Just Redistricting. Here Are All the Ways the Texas GOP Is Consolidating Power. appeared first on Texas Monthly.