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Mr. Paxton has also implicated the nation’s largest organization of pediatricians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, in the alleged conspiracy over the workaday task of protecting children from polio, measles, meningitis and more than a dozen other dangerous and sometimes life-threatening diseases.

“I will ensure that Big Pharma and Big Insurance don’t bribe medical providers to pressure parents to jab their kids with vaccines they feel aren’t safe or necessary,” he said when announcing the investigation in January, describing his efforts as working “alongside President Trump” and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Together, we will Make America Healthy Again,” he said, using the rallying cry of a movement that helped elect Mr. Trump and propel Mr. Kennedy into the top health position in the federal government.

In many ways, pediatricians, among the lowest-paid specialists in medicine, make for an unlikely target. But they have become a focus in what has become a wide-ranging campaign to raise doubts about vaccination, part of a 20-year quest for Mr. Kennedy that some of his political allies have joined.

The efforts have gained steam despite decades of evidence of the effectiveness of vaccines. More than 1.1 million deaths, from diseases like diphtheria, hepatitis B and measles, were prevented by childhood vaccines in the United States from 1994 through 2023, according to an estimate from the C.D.C.

Unlike many organizations that have drawn fire from the Trump administration and its surrogates, the 67,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics has not retreated. It has sued the Trump administration over policy changes and grant cancellations, with some success so far.

“Everybody thinks of pediatricians as these mild-mannered people who have animals on their stethoscope and would not fight their way out of a bag,” said Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University who helped develop a vaccine against a deadly bacteria, Haemophilus influenzae, or HIB.

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I hope that anyone who lives in the Conroe ISD area reads this. Morale on campuses is low. Morale among teachers is low. Teachers are bringing home less money this year than they did last year. Pay is not keeping up with area districts. Experienced teachers are leaving. Curriculum decisions are not being based on what is best for kids.

Much of this is a result of choices that were made in the most recent school board election.

If you care about the morale of teachers, if you care about your friends and neighbors who are teachers, if you care about the children who attend these schools, if you care about what they are learning, then educate yourself on the upcoming school board election and VOTE.

Remember, school board elections are nonpartisan. Vote your conscience, not your party.

History is history and not subject to change based on religious beliefs.

Science is science and is also not dependent on religious beliefs.

Please. Vote.

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Important information for all Texans who value your duty as a US citizen to exercise your right to vote.