Texas Standard For April 30, 2019
To be or not to be a Senate candidate. Democrats are puzzled why an expected challenge to John Cornyn is slow to materialize, we’ll have the latest. And: Amid what appears to be growing support for gun control efforts in other parts of the U.S., the nation’s biggest gun rights group takes aim against itself? A leadership struggle at the NRA poses one of the most serious threats to the organization in years. Also: A Texas senator moves to stop publishing the final words of prisoners facing the death sentence. All that and a whole lot more today on the Texas Standard:

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