Kerr County, where 135 people lost their lives on July 4, had no alert system in place, as taxpayers had refused to fund it. Lawmakers are examining an overhaul of natural disaster management during a ...

The State Capitol is seen on July 21, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Lawmakers are gathering for a special session to discuss an agenda outlined by Gov. Greg Abbott that seeks to address flood relief in ...

As the Texas special legislative session began Monday, El Paso lawmakers expressed significant concerns over the agenda, ...

Texas Democrats are considering their options to block a Republican-led effort to redraw the state's congressional maps ...

The prospect of Eric Flores’ candidacy has excited Republicans in Texas and Washington, due in part to his military and law ...

The Texas GOP knows the risk. In the 2010s, the Republican-controlled Legislature drew political lines that helped pad the ...

Republicans are encountering early headaches in Senate races viewed as pivotal to maintaining the party's majority in next ...

In 2003, just three years after the decennial census, Texas Republicans developed a proposal to redraw that state’s ...

Stansbury trolls Trump on X over Epstein client list Democratic U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, an ardent critic of Republican President Donald Trump, capitalized on the controversy surrounding Trump and ...

The “presidential lean” of a state can, over time, help us quantify its political trajectory.— Much of the Heartland and Midwest has come to lean more to the GOP over the past two decades, though the ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Democrats that deny quorum for an emergency special session called by Governor Abbott, 'should be hunted down' ...

Gov. Greg Abbott has acknowledged DOJ concerns that some districts were drawn “along strict racial lines.” Critics say it’s a ...