representative matt kraus for the warm embrace of state sponsored sponsorship. kraus, who shares the texas house committee on general investigating, launched a stalin style investigation into schoolbooks and curriculums. he has sent a list of more than 800 books to school leaders throughout the state and asked them to review if they had any books with so-called controversial topics. it should come as no surprise that when the dallas morning news did an analysis of the list, it found of the first 500 books listed, 97 were written by women, people of color, or lgbtq authors, because of course. the school district is a town of roughly 11,000 people. they have created a committee to review any books that include commercial topics the representative for the district, which again is in texas, not communist china. told in no court they really don t care if you don t like it. because, quote, we understand