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The Texas county that explains why Republicans are terrified

Happy Thursday, I’m writing from my hotel room in scorching-hot Sugar Land, Texas, a city that’s just south-west of Houston,

Happy Thursday,

I’m writing from my hotel room in scorching-hot Sugar Land, Texas, a city that’s just south-west of Houston, where I’m doing some reporting for our ongoing series this summer about gerrymandering. Stay tuned for more details on that story, and you can read the first, second and third pieces in our series in the meantime.

As you may have heard recently, Texas has become a kind of epicenter of conservative political extremism, as Republicans who control the

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