DAN PATRICK

The lieutenant governor’s rural bus tour looks more like an extended vacation than a reelection bid.

Individuals with special needs will be able to get medical appointments, haircuts, legal advice and more at the new MAC by Morgan's Wonderland.

New mandatory sentences could be a big policy shift for Texas. But Patrick isn’t providing any details of his one-sentence proposal so it’s hard to gauge its significance.

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The Texas Tribune reviewed the 15-page document, which will be handed out to new drivers, and asked historians to comment on how accurately and thoroughly it chronicles the state’s history.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick teased state immigration legislation that would protect citizens while easing the border crisis' "financial burden" and "invasion of our state."

For example, members of the Railroad Commission don’t deal with railroads. Here’s what the many officials elected statewide do with the power voters give them.

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The latest survey also gave Republican incumbents single-digit leads in two other statewide races. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick led Democrat Mike Collier by 7 points, and Attorney General Ken Paxton registered a 5-point advantage over Democrat Rochelle Garza.

The campaign event, hosted by the Texas Democratic Party, marked the party's second stop for its "Democrats Deliver for Texas" tour.

In his second attempt to oust the incumbent, Mike Collier is courting Republicans who are turned off by the Legislature’s hard-right turn.

The lieutenant governor said BlackRock was “discriminating against the oil and gas industry." He didn’t mention his own holdings in the firm.

In his second attempt to oust the incumbent, Collier is actively courting Republican voters who are turned off by the Legislature’s hard-right turn in recent years.

Texas political activist Olivia Julianna is raising funds to support Mike Collier, Dan Patrick's opponent.

The endorsement comes after Patrick’s Democratic opponent, Mike Collier, received endorsements from two Republicans, Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley and state Sen. Kel Seliger of Amarillo.

Three new books remind us that some of the issues roiling the state have been with us for a very long time.

Both Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke hope to define the election on issues viewed as favorable to their own parties.

Both Republicans have been at odds with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and neither of them are running for reelection.

McAllen ISD is planning on applying for a grant that would provide the district’s police force with bullet-resistant shields.

Texas continues to experience record-breaking heat that is putting our electric grid to the test. Several times recently, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas issued conservation pleas to Texans to avoid rolling blackouts. And the state keeps setting records for energy demand.

Opinion: The difference between Texas' racial, ethnic, and gender profile and that of its Legislature has never been more pronounced.

On Aug. 8, a group of Republican candidates asked the Supreme Court to remove 23 Libertarian opponents from the ballot, saying they did not meet eligibility requirements. The Republicans included Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and others in congressional and state legislative races.

On a state advisory committee, only one member has any experience with wind or solar power. And he’s voiced some eyebrow-raising ideas.

'Look out your window, you might see a bus coming to you one day in the future, and the buses are going to keep coming,' Patrick said of Gov. Greg Abbott's controversial plan to bus asylum seekers out of South Texas.

According to a Dallas Morning News-University of Texas at Tyler survey, 55% of Texans said they either support or strongly support legalization of recreational pot.

After the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, state Republicans near-unanimously lined up behind Trump—before further details left them silent.

Texas Republican officials at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday prodded attendees to suit up for a “red wave” in the upcoming November midterm elections, criticizing federal immigration policy and inflation while boasting about Texas’ economic successes. Texas Democrats condemned the GOP for openly welcoming a world leader with a polarizing international reputation. “We have to revitalize our churches, our families, our universities and our community institutions.”The event’s lineup features a bevy of GOP Texas officials including Cruz, Gov. Newsom recently ran newspaper ads in Texas that criticized GOP leaders for their policies on guns and abortions. Patrick also used his speech to appeal for GOP unity in Texas now that the primaries are over.

Viktor Orbán appeared at the convention in Dallas after saying last week that Europeans “do not want to become peoples of mixed race.” Texas officials attending, though, stayed focused on criticizing Democrats.

Help us prioritize the policy issues and election questions we should report on ahead of the November midterms.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has tested positive for COVID-19, his office confirmed Sunday.

Republicans are starting to pay more attention to Texas Senate District 27 — the only competitive Senate seat in November — but whether they will go all in remains an open question.

Texas State Teachers Association President Ovidia Molina released a scathing statement aimed at Texas policymakers on Monday.

Nirenberg called Patrick 'reckless and divisive.'

Opinion: The governor has spent billions of dollars on his own failed militarization of the border while blaming Biden for migrant deaths.

Doctor’s Hospital at Renaissance is expanding its presence in Starr County.

Initiatives include funding for bulletproof shields, expansion of child mental health access and money for school districts to purchase panic alert technology.

Almost half the money is going toward bullet-resistant shields for school police officers, a move that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on fellow state leaders to support.

Even if Beto O'Rourke upsets Greg Abbott in November, he'd be the underdog in any abortion battle with the Republican-controlled Legislature.

A landmark decision on Friday from the Supreme Court of the United State sent shockwaves through the country. The court decided that abortion is not a constitutionally protected right.

Red flag laws likely remain a nonstarter among Republican leaders in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott already faced a conservative backlash after he asked the Legislature to consider them four years ago.

Even though more than 75% of Texas voters favor red flag laws designed to keep firearms away from dangerous people, the Texas GOP is unlikely to do anything to upset the gun lobby.

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Proposals include expanding access to mental health care for children and adolescents and implementing a silent panic alert system in school districts.

Texas House Speaker pitched redirecting more than $100 million to school safety.

The University of Texas at Austin selected Justin Dyer to run The Civitas Institute, formerly referred to as the Liberty Institute. The center raised concerns among faculty after The Texas Tribune reported UT-Austin worked with conservative donors and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to bring the institute to the flagship UT campus.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had asked House leaders to support his push for arming school police officers with bulletproof shields after the Uvalde shooting. House Speaker Dade Phelan is also asking for more money for mental health and school safety programs.

Opinion: The ruling politicians in Texas have engaged in tail-chasing responses to the Uvalde mass shooting.

Dan Patrick to serve on a committee charged with making schools and communities safer following the massacre at a Uvalde elementary. Eleven state senators were selected to form part of the Senate Special Committee to Protect All Texans created June 1. Only three are democrats — and two are from the Valley — and none of them represent Uvalde, where the school shooting that prompted the committee’s creation took place. Hinojosa and Judith Zaffirini, a state senator who represents Starr County, were both tapped by Patrick to serve on the committee. So, many school districts didn’t follow through for various reasons,” Hinojosa said, though he did not serve on the senate committee created in 2018.

Following the massacre in Uvalde, Tex., Republican lawmakers have argued that future gunmen could be stopped by posting more security guards and locking all but one door at schools.

Opinion: The most recent answer to mass shootings in Texas was the law allowing open carry without a permit.

Patrick said he wants police in as many Texas schools as possible to have bulletproof shields before the fall. He’s asked other state leaders to move around money in the state budget to make it happen.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff says a special session needs to be called now.

Gutierrez, a Democrat who has been critical of the state’s response to past shootings, said Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also snubbed state senators whose districts were affected by shootings in El Paso and Santa Fe.

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When asked Friday if he would call a special legislative session, Abbott said​ "all options are on the table" and he said he believed ultimately that laws would be passed.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) asked state lawmakers to convene a pair of “special legislative committees” to address the issues of school safety and mass violence in the wake of the shootings that left 19 children and two teachers dead inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex.

Greg Abbott is calling for special legislative committees to convene in the wake of the mass shooting at an Uvalde Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead. Abbott sent a joint letter to Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and Speaker Dade Phelan on Wednesday to request Texas legislative leaders convene special legislative committees. Funerals for two of the children were held Tuesday. More funerals are expected to continue this week.

The committees are different from a special legislative session, which Democrats — and at least a couple Republicans — have asked for after the shooting. Abbott has not ruled that out.

He also wants to discuss mental health and police training.

Democrat Mike Collier blasted the governor for refusing to call a special session, something he did three times last year to push GOP-backed culture war legislation.

The question moving forward is whether Democrats, outnumbered in the Texas Legislature, will be able to put enough pressure on lawmakers to move on a previously intractable issue in gun-friendly Texas.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said Monday that “there is nothing in the City Charter, Election Code, or Texas Constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office."

The question moving forward is whether Democrats, outnumbered in the Texas Legislature for two decades, will be able to put enough pressure on lawmakers to move on a previously intractable issue in gun-friendly Texas and that Republicans, who support looser gun laws, will fight tooth and nail.

The “God-given right” to self-defense has become a rallying cry in Texas politics, further cementing gun ownership as a holy cause and political identity. The state’s Republican leadership has spent decades carrying the banner.

The “God-given right” to self-defense has become a rallying cry in Texas politics, further cementing gun ownership as a holy cause and political identity. The state’s Republican leadership has spent decades carrying the banner.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans argue that gunmen can be stopped by locking all but one door and posting guards at schools. School officials and safety experts say that’s not realistic.

"We need to stop the bad guys."—Ted Cruz

The NRA's Annual Meeting is being held three days after one of the worst school shootings in Texas history

The National Rifle Association still has a bevy of assets that it can use to influence the gun policy debate despite financial and internal turmoil.

Defenders of limitless guns are out of ideas but full of excuses.

Network hosts embrace a cliche that has become a substitute for action.

Gov. Greg Abbott invited Ed Scruggs to be part of two Texas task forces on gun safety. He started optimistic. He left feeling like a prop.

The Republican governor will still be seen in prerecorded remarks at the organization’s annual meeting, which begins Friday in Houston.

Gunman massacred 19 elementary students and two adults after storming a school in Uvalde

“Someone needs to stand up for the children of this state, or they will continue to be killed," O'Rourke told Abbott, before security escorted him out of the building. The two will face off in the race for Texas governor in November.

A news conference about the shooting at a Texas elementary school broke into shouting Wednesday as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke blamed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for inaction ahead of the latest in a long string of mass shootings in the state.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick are also scheduled to attend the event but their offices have not commented on their attendance since the shooting unfolded in Uvalde on Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump, who is scheduled to speak, said Wednesday he still plans to attend.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke has blamed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for inaction on gun control.

O’Rourke’s disruption drew angry responses from the elected officials onstage, with Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin calling him a “sick son of a bitch.”

Abbott was publicly criticized by his Democratic opponent for governor. Abbot also said he wasn’t sure if he would attend the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting later this week.

Collier came within 4 percentage points of unseating the incumbent in 2018. But this year, Democrats face even stronger headwinds in trying to unseat Texas Republicans.

Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican leaders signaled an openness to some gun restrictions after recent mass shootings. But in the last several years, lawmakers have eased gun laws, most notably by passing a permitless carry bill last year.

Bush, who has served for seven years as the state’s land commissioner, campaigned on restoring integrity to the attorney general’s office and hit Paxton for his legal and ethical troubles.

The winner will face a tough challenge against Republican incumbent Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

State leaders say expanding a social safety net for children and prosecuting abortion funders are among their priorities. “We’ll continue to do our best to make abortion not just outlawed, but unthinkable,” said state Rep. Briscoe Cain.

The two Republican state officials filed friend of the court briefs asking that the high court take up the case because it is relevant to statewide governance and to the powers of an executive office under the Texas Constitution.

Election security experts for years have urged states to replace outdated voting machines.

In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Brian and James about Dan Patrick’s push for a Texas version of the Florida law governing the discussion of sexuality in schools and Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest action on the border.

The next session of the Texas Legislature is months away, but by the time it actually starts, a lot of the work will already be done. Lawmakers are working on early versions of their legislation right now — before some of them have even been elected.

Republicans say they don’t want young kids learning about sex. Educators say that’s already the standard.

The Florida law prohibits teachers from teaching sexual orientation or gender identity to kids below the fourth grade.

Reyes faces Pete Flores in the May 24 Republican primary runoff for the open state Senate seat. Flores is backed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

The number of rejected mail ballots in Texas soared to nearly 13% across most counties in the nation's first election of 2022.

The issue is no longer contained to just the party’s fringes — and it is unlikely to go away any time soon as the national fervor grows, Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive faces legal challenges and it factors prominently into a slew of GOP primary runoffs.

About $1 billion will go to support students, as the cost of living in Austin skyrockets.

Almost all the preferred candidates of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dade Phelan nabbed enough votes to head into the November general election. And nearly all sitting House and Senate members seeking to return to the Texas Capitol kept their seats.

Find the latest, updated election results for the 2022 primary election in Texas on March 1, 2022.

Find the latest, updated election results for the 2022 primary election in Texas on March 1, 2022.

Find the latest, updated election results for the 2022 primary election in Texas on March 1, 2022.