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National Group Aims to Turn Texas Blue

By: Joy Diaz, KUT News

Updated: January 25, 2013

Texas Democrats have been fighting an uphill battle against Republicans for almost two decades, but a new Washington-based group wants to invest tens of millions of dollars to turn Texas blue.

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