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Defense attorneys Casie Gotro and Clint Broden will receive top honors Thursday from the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association for their role in challenging the mass prosecution of bikers in the 2015 shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. Gotro and Broden will be named as the association’s Percy Foreman Lawyers of the Year at a banquet Thursday in San Antonio. Casie Gotro, of Houston, defended Jacob Carrizal last fall in the first and only Twin Peaks case that has gone to trial. The five-week trial of Carrizal, president of the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos, ended in a...

About 150 people, mostly bikers and their supporters, attended a rally Saturday on the south steps of the Capitol to denounce the treatment of the 177 people arrested in connection with a May shootout in Waco that left nine dead and 20 injured “That’s how tyrannies usually start: by throwing people in jail because of their association,” said Clint Broden, who is representing Matthew Clendennen, one of the arrested bikers, in criminal and civil lawsuits.

On his radio show Friday, Glenn Beck took time to respond to comments made by Texas congressional candidate Stephen Broden that violence was a part of America’s founding and that a future violent overthrow of the government is “on the table.” In first talking about the story, Beck came out strongly against the idea. “If somebody is suggesting violence, they will be the destruction of our country,” he said: Later in the show, Beck realized that the Stephen Broden mentioned in the story is Pastor Stephen Broden, whom Beck has had on his show in the past. “Stephen Broden, what...

This newspaper has been among Eddie Bernice Johnson's long-standing supporters, recommending the Democrat for re-election time and again in her nearly two decades in Congress. Her work on behalf of North Texas has been solid, her attentiveness to water and transportation issues real. So it is with a measure of sadness that we find we cannot recommend her for re-election in District 30. We have spent considerable resources and energy focusing on ways to "bridge the gap" between northern and southern Dallas in recent years and, as a result, we cannot look past the fact that Johnson allowed at least...

North Texas rarely is viewed as a national battleground in the fight for control of Congress, but two of the hottest races in the country are in the region. That's because two Democratic incumbents long considered relatively safe -- U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas and U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards of Waco -- are now considered vulnerable as Republicans seek to wrest control of Congress from the Democrats. Johnson is facing Dallas Pastor Stephen Broden, and Bryan oil and gas executive retiree Bill Flores is challenging Edwards. Broden recently made national news by picking up an endorsement from former...

Hour long speech at the High Plains Patriots (8 parts). He is running for Texas 30 Congress seat this fall. WOW. He gets it. I hope Sarah does some campaigning for him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaPTzVGZ790&feature=related

Here is video of Pastor Stephen Broden giving the benediction at the Anti-ObamaCare tea party rally on the Capitol steps. Broden said "we believe abortion is in this health care, and abortion is anti-Christ. (Video)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUre-TwijR0 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr3pN1eyvpU