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Eleanor Dearman is a journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a reporter with the San Antonio Express-News Austin bureau.

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Lisa Moore
stated on August 7, 2016 in an interview for NPR's "All Things Considered":

Says there are "concrete examples" of University of Texas job applicants or prospective applicants and students as well as invited speakers changing their minds because of handguns being allowed in campus buildings and classrooms.

By Eleanor Dearman • August 26, 2016
Matt Mackowiak
stated on July 1, 2016 in a commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:

"In 2009, his first year as mayor," Julián Castro "received a seven-figure referral fee" that smells like a dirty financial gift "from notorious personal injury lawyer Mikal Watts, a major Obama donor."

By Eleanor Dearman • July 28, 2016
Ted Cruz
stated on May 14, 2016 in his speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention:

Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."

By Eleanor Dearman • June 26, 2016
Wendy Davis
stated on March 14, 2016 in an interview with Texas Monthly:

"Texas is one of only a handful of states that does not have an equal pay law."

By Eleanor Dearman • May 27, 2016
Jorge Ramos
stated on March 9, 2016 in an interview on NPR:

Says 80 journalists have been killed in Mexico in the last decade.

By Eleanor Dearman • April 8, 2016
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2016 in Radio interview:

"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."

By Eleanor Dearman • February 27, 2016
Joe Straus
stated on December 15, 2015 in campaign video:

"Texas is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country."

By Eleanor Dearman • January 30, 2016