Matthew Haston Krause (born August 19, 1980)[1] is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 93rd district from 2013 to 2023.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and social sciences from San Diego Christian College and a Juris Doctor from the Liberty University School of Law in 2007.
[11] In 2019, after a spate of mass shootings in Texas, Krause said that he would support Democratic members' calls for a special session on gun violence only if anti-abortion legislation was also on the agenda.
[14][15] In 2019, despite a recent measles outbreak, Krause introduced a bill to make it easier for parents to opt their children out of school vaccination requirements.
[16][17] In 2019, Krause was one of 13 House Republicans who joined Democrats to pass a bill, 77–66, to make defendants with severe mental illness ineligible for the death penalty.
The list included Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, best sellers, and other award-winning works of literature,[21] many of them written by women, people of color, or LGBTQ authors.
[22] This list included William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, and Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.