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  2. ↑ "Bryan Hughes". lrl.state.tx.us. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Rep. Hughes, Bryan". house.texas.gov. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Bryan Hughes biography". house.texas.gov. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
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  6. ↑ "Texas general election returns, November 5, 2002". elections.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on November 8, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Texas general election returns, November 2, 2004". elections.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on November 8, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Texas general election returns, November 7, 2006". elections.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on November 8, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Texas general election returns, November 2, 2010". elections.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on November 8, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Republican primary election returns, May 29, 2012". enr.sos.state.tx.us. Archived from the original on June 10, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Tim Eaton, "Simpson announces run for speaker of Texas House", December 10, 2012". Austin American Statesman . Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
  12. ↑ Legislature opens; Straus re-elected", Laredo Morning Times , January 9, 2013, p. 10A
  13. ↑ "Elise Hu, "Bryan Hughes Withdraws Support for Straus," November 10, 2010". texastribune.org. 10 November 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  14. ↑ Ross Ramsey (August 25, 2015). "Lt. Gov. Patrick Endorses Hughes in Open Senate Seat". The Texas Tribune . Retrieved November 30, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Republican primary returns". Texas Secretary of State. March 1, 2016. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Election Returns". Texas Secretary of State. May 24, 2016. Archived from the original on June 5, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
  17. 1 2 Ura, Alexa (2021-04-01). "Texas Senate advances bill limiting how and when voters can cast ballots, receive mail-in voting applications". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
  18. 1 2 Corasaniti, Nick (2021-04-24). "Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  19. ↑ Multiple sources:
    • Ura, Alexa (2021-05-07). "Texas GOP's voting restrictions bill could be rewritten behind closed doors after final House passage". The Texas Tribune. But both the original SB 7 and the original provisions of HB 6 were opposed by civil rights groups who raised the prospect that the legislation violates federal safeguards for voters of color. Republicans' efforts to further restrict voting in the state come as their presidential margins of victory continue to thin and Democrats drive up their votes in diverse urban centers and growing suburban communities.
    • Ura, Alexa (2021-03-22). "Texas Republicans begin pursuing new voting restrictions as they work to protect their hold on power". The Texas Tribune. Senate Bill 7 is part of a broader package of proposals to constrain local initiatives widening voter access in urban areas, made up largely by people of color, that favor Democrats.
    • "New GOP-led voting restrictions move forward in Texas". CBS News/AP. 1 April 2021. The bill is one of two major voting packages in Texas that mirrors a nationwide campaign by Republicans after former President Donald Trump made false claims about election fraud. Voting rights groups say the measures would disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minority voters.
    • Wines, Michael (2021-04-01). "Texas lawmakers advance a bill that would make voting more difficult, drawing comparisons to Georgia". The New York Times. Critics of the Senate bill said most of its provisions were less about making voting secure than about making it harder, particularly for urban voters and minority voters, two groups that tend to vote for Democrats.
    • Barragán, James (2021-04-01). "In overnight vote, Texas Senate passes bill that would make it harder to vote". Dallas Morning News. [President of the Texas Civil Rights Project] said many of the bill's provisions would disproportionately affect voters of color. The extended voting hours in Harris County, for example, were mostly used by voters of color. Fifty-six percent of voters who cast ballots in late-night hours were Black, Hispanic or Asian, according to the Texas Civil Rights Project.
    • Coronado, Acacia (2021-05-30). "EXPLAINER: How Texas Republicans aim to make voting harder". Associated Press. Advocates say the changes would disproportionately affect minorities and people with disabilities.
    • Gardner, Amy (2021-05-30). "How the new Texas voting bill would create hurdles for voters of color". Washington Post. While Senate Bill 7 would have wide-ranging effects on voters across the state, it includes specific language that critics say would disproportionately affect people of color — particularly those who live in under-resourced and urban communities.
    • Jasper Scherer; Zach Despart (1 May 2021). "GOP bills target Harris County's efforts to expand voting. Here's how that played out in the 2020 election". Houston Chronicle. Voting rights experts say the bills — which include measures that would apply only to the state's most populous counties, all of which are predominantly nonwhite — would discriminate against voters of color.
    • Nick Corasaniti (24 April 2021). "Republicans Target Voter Access in Texas Cities, but Not Rural Areas". New York Times. The Republican focus on diverse urban areas, voting activists say, evokes the state's history of racially discriminatory voting laws — including poll taxes and "white primary" laws during the Jim Crow era — that essentially excluded Black voters from the electoral process. Most of Harris County's early voters were white, according to a study by the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit group. But the majority of those who used drive-through or 24-hour voting — the early voting methods the Republican bills would prohibit — were people of color, the group found.
    • Paul J. Weber (15 April 2021). "Houston's expanded voting becomes target of GOP restrictions". The effort is one of the clearest examples of how the GOP's nationwide campaign to tighten voting laws can target Democrats, even as they insist the measures are not partisan. With Americans increasingly sorted into liberal urban areas and conservative rural ones, geography can be an effective proxy for partisanship. Proposals tailored to cities or that take population into account are bound to have a greater impact on Democratic voters.; The county exemplifies the GOP's slipping grip on fast-changing Texas. In 2004, former President George W. Bush, who is from Texas, easily won Harris County and Republicans ran every major countywide office. But recent years have been routs for Democrats, whose wins now extend down the ballot to local judicial races.
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  21. ↑ Goldenstein, Taylor (2021-04-13). "Fact checking Texas lawmaker's claim of 400 voter fraud 'cases'". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  22. ↑ "'Conservative crusader' Sen. Bryan Hughes advances bills on abortion, voting, and social media". 4 April 2021.
  23. ↑ "Texas Senate approves Sen. Bryan Hughes bill to stop social media companies from banning Texans for political views". April 2021.
  24. ↑ "Abbott signs Hughes' social media censorship protection bill into law". 9 September 2021.
  25. ↑ "Governor Abbott Signs Law Protecting Texans from Wrongful Social Media Censorship".
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  27. ↑ "Texas Legislature Online - 87(2) History for SB 3". capitol.texas.gov. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
  28. 1 2 McGee, Kate (June 15, 2021). "Texas "critical race theory" bill limiting teaching of current events signed into law". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
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  35. ↑ "Texas demands documents from BlackRock, other financial service firms in ESG probe". Fox Business . 22 August 2022.
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Bryan Hughes
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Member of the Texas Senate
from the 1st district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 10, 2017
Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by
Bob D. Glaze
 Member of the Texas House of Representatives
from the 5th district
2003–2017		Succeeded by
Texas Senate
Preceded by Member of the Texas State Senate
from the 1st district
2017–present		Succeeded by
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