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SAN JUAN — Dozens of people crammed inside a burger joint here on a Saturday morning in late July, buzzing with energy. They fed on free breakfast tacos and drank coffee as they waited for the quarterly meeting of the Hidalgo County Democratic Party to begin.

On the agenda for the party's county executive committee was the appoint

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