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Texas Attorney General Paxton's filing comes in response to the Council on American-Islamic Relations Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin chapters' lawsuit against him and Gov. Greg Abbott last month.

It comes two days after Gov. Greg Abbott declared the two were foreign terrorist groups.

Gov. Greg Abbott filed the designation letter Tuesday.

On Thursday, an 18-year-old Afghan citizen living in Oklahoma pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit an act of terrorism on Election Day in November of last year.

Officials said Jabbar, dressed in full military gear, drove a truck into a crowd early Wednesday. At least 15 people were killed and 35 others were injured. Jabbar was shot and killed while exchanging gunfire with police.

Nasir Ahmed Tawhedi and a juvenile co-conspirator expected to die as martyrs according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A recent analysis of Oath Keepers’ membership rolls leaked last year found that Texas had more members of the far-right extremist group than any other state — and the most who worked as elected officials, law enforcement officers or members of the military.

Guy Reffitt, a 49-year-old Wylie resident, never entered the Capitol but helped ignite the crowd “into an unstoppable force,” a prosecutor at his trial said. His sentence is the longest given out so far from the Jan. 6 riot.

The past few years have been an especially frightening time for many Jewish Americans, even before a gunman seized hostages at Colleyville’s Congregation Beth Israel on Saturday. Preparing for the worst may have helped the hostages stay alive.

Kansans charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol include alleged members of the Proud Boys, a Topeka City Council candidate and others who've since expressed regret for their actions.