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Texans deserve leaders who put Texas first—not special interests.

I've been sounding the alarm about the unchecked expansion of massive data centers because I know what's at stake: our electric grid, our water supply, our family farms and ranches, and the future of rural Texas.

The warning signs weren't hidden. They were plain to see. Yet instead of acting to protect Texans, state leadership opened the door wide to an industry that now threatens our natural resources and infrastructure.

We cannot afford to ignore this issue any longer. Texas needs real safeguards that protect private property rights, preserve our agricultural heritage, and ensure that our communities—not corporate interests—come first.

I'll continue fighting for the farmers, ranchers, and hardworking Texans who deserve to have their voices heard.

Texas first. Always.

— Commissioner Sid Miller

How to deal with banned books.

Lauren Groff could have done the safe thing, which for a National Book Award finalist living quietly in Gainesville is to write books and stay out of it.

Instead she opened a bookstore and filled it with the titles her own state keeps pulling off school shelves. The Lynx opened in 2024. "Gender Q***r", the most-banned book in the country, sold out on the first day.

Groff is 48 today and bisexual, which she has said plainly and without ceremony. She said it while explaining why the abbess at the center of her novel Matrix is in love and in lust with a queen: "I'm bisexual, so it wasn't writing out of non-experience. It was just necessary in her character from the beginning."

The store now runs a Banned Books Book Club. It has featured Gender Q***r and Flamer, both of which come off Florida school shelves on a regular basis.

Which is to say her own state keeps handing her more material than she ever asked for.

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