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Never-say-die Democrats are already looking ahead to 2006, and targeting what they believe is a vulnerable seat in East Texas: state Senate District 2, now held by Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville. "Many of us have begun to realize that 2004 was not as bad as we initially thought, before we had time to really look at the numbers," says Vince Leibowitz, chairman of the Van Zandt Democratic Party and coordinator of the Take Back East Texas SD2 Summit. The summit meeting is slated for Jan. 29, at the Ranchero Restaurant in Canton. "What we're hoping for is a workshop-type setting,"...

What would you say if we told you we have a way to add as many as eight new Republican senators to Congress. We could also add eight right-leaning votes to the electoral college? It's simple, it's fun, and it's perfectly constitutional: Texas should divide itself into five states. Art. IV, Sec. 3 of the U.S. Constitution says that new states may be created out of existing ones, but only with the consent of "the States concerned as well as of the Congress." ...Congress need not take any action at all today: It granted its consent to Texas's potential subdivision...