{"id":785778,"date":"2026-05-10T04:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:34:20","slug":"could-texas-republicans-lose-midterms-see-our-opinion-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785778\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Texas Republicans lose midterms? See our opinion roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From warnings about Republican infighting to debates over weight-loss medication and World Cup anxieties, the Star-Telegram opinion section tackles issues shaping North Texas. Here\u2019s a quick look at what writers argued this week \u2014 and why you should read the full pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. 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The best letters are focused on one topic.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230418989\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RyanRusak_Profile.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Ryan J. Rusak\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Ryan J. Rusak is opinion editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He grew up in Benbrook and is a TCU graduate. He spent more than 15 years as a political journalist, overseeing coverage of four presidential elections and several sessions of the Texas Legislature. He writes about Fort Worth\/Tarrant County politics and government, along with Texas and national politics, education, social and cultural issues, and occasionally sports, music and pop culture. Rusak, who lives in east Fort Worth, was recently named Star Opinion Writer of the Year for 2024 by Texas Managing Editors, a news industry group.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From warnings about Republican infighting to debates over weight-loss medication and World Cup anxieties, the Star-Telegram opinion section&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-785778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116548420700017160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}