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As the national and international discussion of the larger role of Facebook and other social media applications rages in the wake of Russian subversion, the ongoing Cambridge Analytica revelations, and Mark Zuckerberg's appearances on Capitol Hill, attention has shifted away from the more mundane uses of Facebook by real live elected officials. 

The Texas Politics Project was a sponsor of the recently concluded 2017 Texas Tribune Festival on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The festival brought numerous local, statewide, and national political figures to the UT-Austin campus for a weekend of riveting political conversations. Click here to look back on the festival and catch up on any of the conversations you missed.

Eventually politics will return to discussions of how much money to spend on disaster recovery in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. In thinking about that eventuality, the Texas Politics Project has produced some maps that combine the counties designated as disaster areas by Governor Greg Abbott with political district boundaries.