Tag Archives: Texas

The battle for control of the U.S. Senate is tightening as Democrats challenge Republicans in traditionally conservative states while defending seats of their own in competitive contests across the country. Seven races in Texas, Ohio, Maine, Iowa, Alaska, Michigan and New Hampshire are drawing particular attention from political analysts, campaign …

An immigration enforcement agent shot and injured a man in Austin on Sunday, city officials said. Police nor the U.S. Department of Homeland Security identified the man. But Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, an Austin immigration lawyer, said she was hired to represent the man and that he was released from the hospital …

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to not deport a witness in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal immigration agent earlier this month in Houston. U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison issued the directive on Monday after an attorney for Jose …

For over an hour Sunday, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico stood on stage and fielded questions and, at times, frustration from Black Texans at a majority-Black town hall in Houston. “I’m voting for James Talarico, and I hope you do, too — but I want y’all to come and …

Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to report people or groups suspected of voter fraud. “Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of a thriving republic, and with the authority granted to my office …

The Texas State Board of Education approved a sweeping overhaul of the state’s English and literature curriculum last week, requiring public school students to read specific literary works — including Bible stories and passages alongside classic American literature — in a move that places Texas at the center of a …

Democrats are hoping President Donald Trump’s unpopularity and voter discontent with the economy and cost of living will help them flip control of the U.S. House — and achieve the even more difficult hurdle of winning back the U.S. Senate. Republicans currently control the Senate 53 to 47 and senators …

Democratic U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee defeated U.S. Rep. Al Green to represent a newly drawn congressional district that encompasses both of their current Houston-area districts, effectively ending the tenure of one of the state’s longest-serving congressmen and a veteran Democrat in Washington. Green, who has represented the 9th Congressional District …

Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate Tuesday, ending over three decades of Sen. John Cornyn’s electoral dominance in what amounts to a watershed moment for GOP politics in Texas. The Associated Press called the race for Paxton shortly after 8 p.m., about an hour …

Texas can enforce a state law requiring public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. A majority of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Texas officials’ favor, concluding that the law does not establish an official state religion. …

In a critical 2026 battle for control of the U.S. Senate, The Associated Press early Wednesday declared James Talarico the winner of the Democratic primary in Texas, while incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton will spend weeks to come competing in a runoff election. The AP …

Voting concludes Tuesday in the first primaries of the 2026 midterm elections in Arkansas,North Carolina and Texas. The results will provide a glimpse into voters’ mood as the primary season opens and give a sense of what type of candidate appeals to each party’s base. Crucially, the rapid succession of …

For decades, statewide Democratic primaries in Texas were low-octane affairs. Then came the 2026 election cycle. In a year that Democrats see as a prime opportunity to finally flip Texas — amid flagging approval for the second Trump administration, a vicious Senate primary on the Republican side and the potential …

Donald Trump used a wide-ranging speech Friday at the Port of Corpus Christi to tout his second-term record, revisit themes from his recent State of the Union address and attack Democrats, but stopped short of issuing a closely watched endorsement in Texas’ heated Republican U.S. Senate primary. Trump praised what …

Democrat and machinist union leader Taylor Rehmet won the special election Saturday to represent a solidly red Texas Senate district that President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024, a stunning upset that injected a fresh and urgent sense of a panic into the GOP from the Texas Capitol …