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Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they\u2019re published.<\/p>\n<p>                        This article is co-published with Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/irs-churches-endorse-candidates-texas\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Marissa Greene, Fort Worth Report and Report for America ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175407-the-irs-says-churches-can-now-endorse-candidates-that-could-give-texas-pastors-more-power-68c3bac0416c4-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}