{"id":455701,"date":"2026-10-04T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:10:09","slug":"this-week-in-texas-no-debates-grand-jury-insight-and-registration-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455701\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Texas: No debates, Grand Jury insight, and registration backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Abrahams Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15664086_KTRK-Tom-Abrahams-Bio-2025-IMG.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 3, 2026 11:32PM<\/p>\n<p>A month away from Election Day and still no debates, plus a voter registration backlog affecting thousands of Texans. That and more, This Week in Tex<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">This Week in Texas, we&#8217;re a month from Election Day, and so far, the top names on the ballot have not debated. We take a deeper look at recent history and how this year compares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Plus, our political insiders offer their thoughts on that story and the voter registration backlog from DPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">And legal analyst Brice Wice joins us to offer his unique insight into Grand Juries as a panel in Harris County hears evidence in the ICE shooting in Houston earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">And though she&#8217;s not on the ballot, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo is talking about who she won&#8217;t vote for &#8230; This Week in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, October 3, 2026 11:32PM A month away from Election Day and still no debates, plus a voter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[156309,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-455701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-156309","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}