Politics

Last week a senate committee heard testimony on a bill that bars state funds from public libraries that hold events with drag queens, a new cause célèbre among conservatives

With the new tariffs, Texas could lose more than any other state. And the worries go beyond rising costs to even the reliability of our power grid.

Really cruel. That’s how Emmett Schelling describes state leadership. “The leadership of the state largely is not here to be public servants and leaders for us and instead waged really cruel attacks on our entire community, from our youth to our elders,” the executive director of the Transgender Education

Outside of school choice, other priorities for Patrick include several rightwing culture war goals like “placing the ten commandments in school” and “stopping drag time story hour.”

Several Democratic lawmakers in Texas have been sounding the alarm over a devastating directive from the White House Office of Management of Budget that was ordered Monday evening. They are warning that a federal funding freeze ordered by Trump’s OMB could wreak havoc on many programs Texans depend on

Earlier this week, the U.S. Congress passed its first bill of the new session, which is known as the Laken Riley Act. The sweeping immigration bill would demand the detention of any undocumented immigrant that is charged with a nonviolent crime like theft or burglary. The bill is named