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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• The Texas House and Senate striking a deal on property tax reform
• Ken Paxton’s legal team claiming that the House impeachment managers are “withholding information”
• Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez announcing his candidacy for U.S. Senate to displace Ted Cruz
• Gutierrez lashing out at Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House leadership over the property tax compromise
• A small business owner suing Gov. Abbott over Texas’ new Rio Grande buoy system
• A federal judge dismissing a lawsuit from The Satanic Temple challenging Texas’ laws against abortion
• The El Paso gunman who murdered 22 people in 2019 receiving 90 consecutive life sentences
• A Uvalde parent who was banned from school district property having that ban lifted after a lawsuit threat
• Sen. Ted Cruz announcing bipartisan legislation to crack down on schools linked to the Chinese Communist Party
• The City of Austin suspending its partnership with the Department of Public Safety
• The former El Paso city manager being hired as the city manager of Odessa
• The Texas State Historical Association mediating a lawsuit over its board’s ideological makeup