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Vouchers are the governor’s top legislative priority. But he has signaled opposition to a proposed House compromise that would tie them to increased funding for public schools.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has long denied corruption accusations that have dogged him for years

Greg Abbott rows back on ‘inhumane’ remarks amid barrage of criticism after shooting that killed five, including a child

The House voted 86-52 on Thursday to amend the budget to ban state funding for “school vouchers or other similar programs.” Abbott has spent the past two months touring the state to build support for the proposal, spending tremendous political capital on trying to break through the rural Republican opposition…

When President Joe Biden in October granted blanket pardons to more than 6,500 Americans convicted of marijuana possession under federal law, he urged governors to pardon the much greater number of low-level marijuana offenders in their states.

A spokeswoman for the Texas governor says they will not be taking advice on criminal justice from the White House

WASHINGTON — A few days after Daniel got off a plane in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachuseetts, where he had been flown from San Antonio with other migrants by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his phone buzzed.

The number of migrant encounters at the Texas-Mexico border has climbed from 109,456 in March 2021, the month the mission began, to 116,976 in August — a failure of Abbott’s office’s stated desire to “stop this revolving door and deter others considering entering illegally.”

Rape crisis centers in Texas say their caseloads remain high a year after a new abortion law that made no exceptions for rape victims went into effect