Two of the biggest political donors in Texas have used their fortunes to push the state further to the right.
Gun owners allowed to carry handguns without permits or training. Parents of transgender children facing investigation by state officials. Women forced to drive hours out-of-state to access abortion.
This is Texas now: While the Lone Star State has long been a bastion of Republican politics, new laws and policies have taken Texas further to the right in recent years than it has been in decades. Elected officials and political observers in the state say a major factor in the transformation can be traced back to West Texas.
Donors with influence on Texas politics 02:52Political investments paying off Over the last decade, many of the most conservative bills in the Texas legislature, on topics from LGBT rights to guns to private school vouchers, were killed by the moderate Republicans who held sway in the state House. That changed last year, thanks to people like Valoree Swanson.
Conservatism vs. control within the Texas Republican Party 02:37Dunn has defended his spending and his group's campaign tactics. "Empower Texans remains outside the swamp, and the group informs voters who want their representatives to do in Austin what they promised during election season," he wrote in a 2018 op-ed in The Dallas Morning News, responding to criticism of the group's tactics."If all of us outsiders stick together, we can drain the Austin Swamp.
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