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Politics : View from the Center and Left Texas Annex

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From: S. maltophilia11/20/2025 12:32:20 PM
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Gov. Greg Abbott was ordered to release emails with Elon Musk. Most of the 1,400 pages are blacked out.
The heavily redacted emails reveal little of the two men’s relationship.

By Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom Nov. 19, 2025, 4:30 a.m. Central

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This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.

This article is also co-published with The Texas Newsroom as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas.

Months after fighting to keep secret the emails exchanged between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s companies, state officials released nearly 1,400 pages to The Texas Newsroom.

The records, however, reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s influence over state government. In fact, all but about 200 of the pages are entirely blacked out.

Of those that were readable, many were either already public or provided....

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