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Why Greg Abbott Spent a Week Bullying the City of Grand Prairie

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DATE POSTED:May 15, 2026
Governor Greg Abbott speaks during an event in Miami, Florida on April 7, 2026.In the day-to-day, the churn of politics in Texas consists of events and proclamations that seem, taken on their own, nonsensical. But put deranged events together, and quite often, by some strange additive property, they make sense. Last week, Governor Greg Abbott went to war with the City of Grand Prairie, in North Texas, threatening to cut its state funding if it did not force the cancellation of a private party for families organized by a small group of local Muslims to celebrate a religious holiday. If you want to understand why this became a flash point, amid all the various problems facing the great state, you have to start elsewhere.On May 7, the Texan conservative activist Lynn Davenport posted a clip of herself on…

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