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The Texas State Capitol is seen on the first day of the 87th Legislature's third special session on September 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a “crime” to intervene in her miscarriage

Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana
Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Texas funnels millions to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” that look like abortion clinics

Cassandra Jaramillo, Jeremy Kohler, Sophie Chou, Jessica Kegu
Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, testifies at the confirmation hearing for Loretta Lynch to replace U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder by the Senate Judiciary Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 29, 2015. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

“Pattern of bad behavior”: Top MAGA election denier group accused of using donations to get rich

Cassandra Jaramillo
Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, testifies at the confirmation hearing for Loretta Lynch to replace U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder by the Senate Judiciary Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 29, 2015. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Promoters of Trump’s election lies also hyped a hospital for Ukraine. That never happened either

Cassandra Jaramillo, Lauren McGaughy, Allie Morris
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Enormous damage to democracy”: Ken Paxton targeted election workers with probes that went nowhere

Cassandra Jaramillo, Joshua Kaplan