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Under Greg Abbott’s appointed Texas education commissioner, the state has taken over school districts at an alarming pace.

Texas Republicans should have known that Donald Trump’s second midterm would be even more dangerous to their careers than the ...

A significant percentage of Texans are Spanish speakers—but most of our state’s governors have not been among them.

The Tesla CEO’s vision for the car “Bladerunner would have driven” crashed into reality (and a lot of other things).

I’ve covered every election in Texas since 2006. Tuesday night’s results are, by far, the most shocking I’ve ever seen. For ...

On Tuesday, Patrick and his allies were swept from power at virtually every level of state government—a generational setback ...

Jamin Hemenway spent eighteen years chasing his dream. The meals he ate along the way were one of the best parts.

With Democrats preparing to assume control of many of the state’s institutions—only the Senate, the Supreme Court, the Court ...

The Brownsville-raised state representative helped snap the Democratic Party’s three-decade losing streak with an upset ...

In a Trump-leaning South Texas district, the tejano musician is trying to sing and triangulate his way to victory.

As hundreds of landowners fought to keep towers off their land, Kelcy Warren saw wholesale relief—without filing an official ...