The fervor of far-right candidates collided with a broader effort by some House Republicans seeking to discredit Speaker Dade Phelan's conservative bona fides.
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Claim: Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott's administration is closing libraries and turning them into disciplinary centers as part of a state intervention into Houston's chronically underperforming public school system.