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(The Center Square) – Members of the Texas House elected their new speaker Tuesday, state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock. They did so after the former speaker, state Rep. Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont ...
The Texas House on Tuesday elected state Rep. Dustin Burrows (R) to lead the chamber in a blow to the rising far-right wing of the party, defeating a candidate supported by Texas Attorney General ...
The Cook Political Report on Tuesday shifted Texas’s Senate race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican,” signaling momentum for Rep. Colin Allred’s (D) challenge against ...
In their book, Texas Politics Today 2009-2010, authors Maxwell, Crain, and Santos attribute Texas' traditionally low voter turnout among whites to these influences. [4] But beginning in the early 20th century, voter turnout was dramatically reduced by the state legislature's disenfranchisement of most blacks, and many poor whites and Latinos.
Texas's location in the American South and largely in the greater Bible Belt has given the Republican Party the upper hand in the state in recent decades. [89] Trump received the most raw votes for a political candidate ever in Texas, breaking his own record from 2020 by over 500,000. The Democratic vote total fell by 425,000 between 2020 and 2024.
The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit politics and public policy news website headquartered in Austin, Texas. [1] [2] Its stated aim is to promote civic engagement through original, explanatory journalism and public events. [3] The Texas Tribune, like the Voice of San Diego and MinnPost before it, is part of a trend toward web-based, non-profit ...
Efforts by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stem a record number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has set off a series of legal battles with the administration of ...
Austin is the capital of Texas. The State Capitol resembles the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., but is faced in Texas pink granite and is topped by a statue of the "Goddess of Liberty" holding aloft a five-point Texas star. The capitol is also notable for purposely being built seven feet taller than the U.S. national capitol. [1]