Politics

Though Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call an election, the race for an open congressional seat in Houston is well underway

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