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A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the ...

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Four long years ago, much ado was made about the inroads made by then-President Donald Trump in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the four-county region of 1.4 million mostly Hispanic residents at the ...

At the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston’s Third Ward, the writing appeared to be already on the wall for Propositions A and B—a pair of school bonds totaling $4.4 billion for the ...

This year, Texas’ original champion of independent journalism is 70 years old. Our inaugural issue was published on December ...

Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has officially walked away with his election to a third term in Washington by a margin of about 9 points over his well-funded Democratic challenger, Congressman ...

After coming up empty in a well-funded, highly ambitious, and not-slightly hubristic effort to flip the Texas House in the last presidential election cycle, Democrats set their sights lower this ...

A massive investment by a conservative PAC has paid off in key down-ballot judicial races, most critically in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County. The PAC received more than $18 million ...

The Judicial Fairness PAC pumped millions of dollars into an effort laser-focused on ousting Dems from appellate courts from Houston to Dallas.