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Democrats will hold 12 presidential primary debates. The Democratic National Committee says it will have about one a month through the process.

In a powerful moment, Rep. Jamie Raskin says members of his family hid under a desk during the attack on the Capitol.

Fields avoided a runoff election by winning just over 50% of the vote against his nearest challenger republican former state senator Elbert Guillory, who collected 37% of the vote.

The Jan. 6 committee's presentation Thursday night put the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys at the center of its narrative.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has issued five new subpoenas for witnesses lawmakers want to hear from, in addition to 35 witnesses subpoenaed already.

— Some of the United States’ top oil and gas executives testified before Congress about soaring gasoline prices and say they will increase oil production in Texas 25% more than in 2021.— Thursday is the last day for Texans to register to vote in the May 7th elections.— Louisiana Republican Senator Beth Mizell has revived her bill to bar transgender athletes in Louisiana from competing on girls' school sports teams.

The city of Shreveport has a new chief of police. Yesterday at a press conference at Government Plaza downtown, Mayor Adrian Perkins announced his pick for the top cop job. According to a new report from the American Lung Association, Texas isn't doing enough to prevent tobacco use in teens and adults. And neighboring states Arkansas and Louisiana aren't doing much better according to the association's findings.

— Groups advocating for more aid to low-income students have questioned the fairness of the TOPS awards going to higher-income families.— The U.S. Department of Energy says it plans to lend up to $107 million to expand an Australian-owned plant that produces materials for electric car batteries in Louisiana.— Shreveport's Fairgrounds Field is to be demolished at a cost of more than half-a-million dollars with a chunk of that going to remove a protected bat species that has taken residence in the stadium.

- A special program to promote gulf wind turbine technology development in Louisiana was announced Monday.- A Texas education bill filed Friday contains language similar to Florida’s controversial Don’t Say Gay law.- The Texas Senate has advanced a bill to make illegal voting a felony again even if a person didn't know they were ineligible to vote.- Louisiana is among the top states in the nation for high gender-pay gap.

We look at the Republican filibuster of the January 6 Commsion, the ever-present, never passed Infrastructure Bill and how lawmakers will recieve President Bidnen's new $6 trillion spending proposal.