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

• The one and only governor’s race debate between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke
• A federal judge allowing Texas’ lawsuit to exempt Texas-made suppressors from federal regulation to continue
• An appeals court ruling the Texas secretary of state can withhold an 11,000-name long list of potential noncitizens
• The Texas Lottery breaking its all-time sales record for the 12th year in a row
• Austin’s Director of the Office of Police Oversight leaving after nine months of maternity leave
• A national guardsman committing suicide in Eagle Pass
• Abbott filling a new school safety office created after the Uvalde shooting
• A lawsuit over potential fraud in an election over water fluoridation in Fredericksburg
• An independent report showing the Bexar County jail meets its regulatory requirements
• The trial beginning in a suit over Amarillo approving over a quarter billion in debt without voter approval
• A state judge halting a utility board election after claims the wrong members were put on the ballot
• Two Guatemalan men pleading guilty to deadly human smuggling charges