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Longtime friends Willie Nelson and former Texas governor Ann Richards (left) embrace at The Texas Observer's 50th anniversary party. Observer columnist Molly Ivins (right) at the same event.

Deep in the heart of (liberal) Texas

By Dave Denison
December 19, 2004

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AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Liberals around the country took the reelection of George W. Bush hard, but nowhere was the pain more distinct and intimate than among liberals in Texas. This was, after all, the fourth time in a row they had yearned for Bush's defeat and lost: twice when he ran for governor, twice again for president. So when the ... (Full article: 1235 words)

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