What Trump 2.0 Would Mean for Texas The state’s ruling conservative class stands to gain bigly, while everyone else will face the fallout of a radical second term. Texas Observer · Sep 4, 2024
Texas Gov. Abbott Supports Trump's IVF Proposal Texas Governor Abbott supports IVF coverage and criticizes restrictive abortion measures, emphasizing women's health. Top News · Sep 4, 2024
Texas schools are hiring more teachers without traditional training. They hope the state will pay to prepare them. Schools are hiring instructors with different types of backgrounds to deal with critical staff shortages. The Texas Tribune · Sep 4, 2024
Mexico encountered more undocumented migrants than the U.S. for the first time in history The shift is possibly linked to changes in U.S. immigration policies and increased Mexican enforcement efforts. Latin Times · Sep 3, 2024
Ken Paxton sues Bexar County over voter registration outreach effort The move escalates Texas Republicans’ brewing fight with urban counties over initiatives to proactively send applications to unregistered voters. The Texas Tribune · Sep 3, 2024
Houston carjacking: 90-year-old Navy veteran shot dead and run over; Governor offers reward $15,000 combined reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect responsible for the fatal shooting of Navy veteran Nelson Beckett. Latin Times · Sep 3, 2024
Group of Texas Democrats asks DOJ to investigate Texas over possible voter rights violations The request by the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus in a letter to the Department of Justice follows a similar request by a Latino civil rights organization. The Texas Tribune · Aug 31, 2024
Judge rejects Ken Paxton’s bid to question leader of Brownsville migrant aid organization The AG’s office sought to depose the leader of Team Brownsville, which provides water, shelter and basic necessities to asylum-seeking migrants. The Texas Tribune · Aug 30, 2024
Harris County voter outreach proposal sparks another fight with Texas Republicans The county plans to ID eligible voters and send them registration forms. GOP officials say it’s an end-run around state law. The Texas Tribune · Aug 29, 2024
Texas governor says goal of Operation Lone Star is 'reducing illegal immigration to zero percent' "All those terrorists, all those murderers, all those rapists, they're just going to go through New Mexico and Arizona and California", governor Abbott warned Latin Times · Aug 29, 2024
What Texas can learn from crisis mental health care in Arizona Texas officials look to Arizona cities when creating crisis mental health centers. The Texas Tribune · Aug 29, 2024
Texas has removed one million people from voter rolls as part of controversial reforms A set of legislation, passed in 2021, created more rules when voting in the state The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2024
Texas Gov. Abbott is seeking to install more buoy barriers across the state's border with Mexico His administration is waiting for a court to back its expansion plan Latin Times · Aug 28, 2024
In regulating AI, Texas lawmakers face balancing act between its benefits and harms A Senate committee discussed the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence — and overregulating it. The Texas Tribune · Aug 27, 2024
The Texas Tribune · Aug 27, 2024 Election experts cautious as Abbott touts voter roll purge Federal and state law already required voter roll maintenance. Experts warn the governor’s framing of this routine process could be used to undermine trust in elections.
Latin Times · Aug 27, 2024 Texas governor announces removal of over a million ineligible voters from rolls; activists question data The Texas ACLU claims the data "lacks context" and says the administration is putting forward "a pattern of voter intimidation"
Texas Observer · Aug 26, 2024 Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech DPS plans to spend millions in taxpayer dollars on a controversial software, used first as part of Governor Abbott’s border crackdown, to “disrupt potential domestic terrorism.”
Latin Times · Aug 25, 2024 Texas did not bus any migrants to Democratic-led states in July, data shows Governor Greg Abbott had vowed to continue doing so during the Republican National Convention
The Texas Tribune · Aug 23, 2024 Judge rejects Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down Houston immigrant rights group Paxton’s office claimed the group broke rules prohibiting political activity by nonprofits, but the judge rejected the case outright.
The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2024 Texas chief who called Uvalde response 'abject failure' but defended his state police is retiring Texas’ state police chief who came under scrutiny over the hesitant response to the Robb Elementary school shooting says he will retire at the end of the year
The Texas Tribune · Aug 22, 2024 Texas’ busing of migrants hits a speed bump as fewer enter country The bus trips to Democrat-run cities stopped after June as the number of migrants apprehended across the southwest border plummeted.
The Texas Tribune · Aug 21, 2024 Transgender Texans blocked from changing their sex on their driver’s license The Texas Department of Public Safety rule change surfaced in an internal email that also asks driver license staff to compile the names of people seeking a gender marker change.
The Guardian - US · Aug 21, 2024 Millions broil as southern US heat dome causes record highs and wildfires Extreme heat affecting nearly 23m people across US south-west and pushing Texas’s electrical grid to the limit
The Texas Tribune · Aug 20, 2024 In a North Texas House race, two Asian candidates campaign on their version of the American Dream A competitive Texas House race in the Dallas suburbs features the first Asian to win Miss Texas and the second ever Asian woman to serve in the state Legislature.
Latin Times · Aug 19, 2024 Chicago officials say flow of migrants arriving from Texas during DNC set to be much smaller than anticipated The number, initially thought to be around 25,000 migrants, is actually expected to be under 1,000