Paxton is banking on his recent lawsuits against tech and social media companies like Meta, WhatsApp and Discord to win a Senate seat, building on notable victories in years past.

President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents.

A gun-rights YouTuber in Texas who goes by the “AK Guy” on social media has a clear path to the GOP nomination for Congress after Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales ended his reelection campaign over revelations of an affair.

Allies of President Donald Trump have been quick to threaten primary challengers for Republican senators who don’t back Trump's Cabinet picks and legislative priorities.

And both Texas Republicans and Democrats anticipate surges in fundraising, further polarizing an already heated 2020 election season. Over recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has heard Texas-based cases addressing discrimination, voter identification, redistricting, college admissions and immigration policy. The landmark Supreme Court decision that banned states from criminalizing homosexuality came from litigation over a Texas law. That 1973 Supreme Court decision overturned a Texas law criminalizing abortions, finding that the 14th Amendment constitutionally guaranteed a woman’s right to privacy. The Supreme Court is on the ballot.”Cornyn’s office declined Saturday to comment on how the senator thinks the next Supreme Court nomination should be handled and pointed back to his Friday night statement memorializing Ginsburg.