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Hinojosa is trying to overcome a significant fundraising disadvantage against incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott, the Republican seeking a record fourth term.

On Friday through Sunday, some types of clothing, backpacks and other school supplies priced at $100 or less qualify for a sales tax exemption.

Paxton, the Republican attorney general, spoke at the White Oak Music Hall on Wednesday evening. Talarico, a Democratic state representative, will make his own campaign swing through the Houston area this weekend.

Most polling shows Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate, in a statistical dead heat against his Republican rival, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Hundreds of people attended the public visitation for Salgado Araujo, whose killing has galvanized much of Houston’s Latino community and prompted national questions over ICE’s use of force.

Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz sent a letter, at Mayor John Whitmire’s request, to the Texas Department of Public Safety, requesting such an investigation. The fatal shooting has already prompted local and federal investigations.

Local immigrant women shared stories of detention, family separation and fear during an Austin vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

The other men in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo told their lawyer that agents fired into the vehicle unprovoked, according to the Washington Post.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three, was on his way to work when he encountered federal immigration officers in Houston’s East End.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston resident originally from Mexico, was fatally shot Tuesday morning during what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has called a “targeted enforcement operation” in the city’s predominantly Latino East End.

North Texas community organizers are asking for accountability in the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston early Tuesday morning as he was on his way to work a construction job.

There have been widespread calls for an independent investigation since the Tuesday shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal immigration agent.