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Analysis: Are lawmakers trying to make Texans more confident in elections, or less?

After conservative complaints about the national results in the 2020 election, Texas Republicans have tried to anticipate everything that might play against them in 2022,...

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Texas universities with federal contracts are caught between Greg Abbott and Joe Biden over COVID-19 vaccine mandates

While some universities in other states that hold federal contracts have mandated vaccines for all employees, many Texas universities, which collectively have billions in...

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Analysis: Are lawmakers trying to make Texans more confident in elections, or less?

Texas universities with federal contracts are caught between Greg Abbott and Joe Biden over COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Enrollment at Texas’ public universities inches ahead of community colleges for the first time since 1990s

Texas has new political maps. See which districts your home is in.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick for top Texas election post worked with Trump to fight 2020 results

Texas says popular cannabis extract, delta-8, is illegal, sending retailers scrambling

Oil industry helped handpick members of Texas advisory group for electric grid reliability, emails show

Texas state Sen. Kel Seliger, a Republican willing to buck his party leadership, will not seek reelection

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Gov. Greg Abbott should call lawmakers back for a fourth special session

Analysis: Texas legislators set the table for the 2022 elections

Five takeaways from Texas’ third special legislative session

White House calls Texas’ bill targeting transgender student athletes “hateful”

Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t get everything he wanted in the special session. Will he call lawmakers back for more?

After Texas and other states passed new voting restrictions, federal bills could expand ballot access. Here’s what you need to know.

Houston state Rep. Dan Huberty, who spearheaded Texas’ 2019 public education overhaul in Legislature, to retire

Texas voters will decide whether to lower their property tax payments after Legislature completes last-minute Hail Mary

Texas bill to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employers failed in Legislature after business groups rallied against it

Analysis: An election slogan you won’t hear in Texas in 2022

Texas colleges and universities get more than $3 billion for campus construction projects under bill headed to Gov. Greg Abbott

The law that prompted a school administrator to call for an “opposing” perspective on the Holocaust is causing confusion across Texas

Texas House wants to use federal COVID relief funds to send out $525 checks — but only to homeowners

Texans will decide eight proposed amendments to the state Constitution on Nov. 2. Here’s what you need to know.

Texas House approves bill targeting transgender student athletes after lawmakers' three previous attempts faltered

As Texas GOP wages war on COVID-19 mandates, lawmakers OK bill that would make companies requiring the shot vulnerable to lawsuits

Mike Collier wants a rematch against Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. But first he’s got to beat fellow Democrat Matthew Dowd.

Texas House passes proposed new map for chamber’s 150 districts, aiming to protect Republicans’ majority for the next decade

“It puts a big burden on employers”: Businesses face tough choices after Gov. Greg Abbott bans vaccine mandates

State agency removed online resources for LGBTQ youth after complaints from a Republican challenging Gov. Greg Abbott, emails show

Analysis: Greg Abbott and the policy contradiction of an anti-mandate mandate

How a doughnut-shaped district breaks up voters of color near Fort Hood and helps House Republicans

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans any COVID-19 vaccine mandates — including for private employers

Analysis: Intentional loopholes in Texas abortion law draw a judge’s rebuke

Texas Senate approves congressional map that draws no new Black or Hispanic districts even as people of color fueled population growth

Texas struggled to teach students learning English before COVID-19. The pandemic made it worse.

Weighing reelection bid, GOP Texas Sen. Kel Seliger confronts redrawn district, Trump endorsement of primary challenger

Analysis: When Texas legislators admit they don’t know what they’re doing

Texas bill limiting transgender student athletes’ sports participation clears key hurdle on way to becoming law

Texas has raised $54 million in private donations for its border wall plan. Almost all of it came from this one billionaire.

Texas House committee advances proposed map for lower chamber

After minor changes, advocates are confident a bill requiring adequate shelter for dogs can avoid another Gov. Greg Abbott veto

Senate approves map cementing GOP dominance in upper chamber, dividing up Tarrant county’s voters of color

Analysis: In the drive to get new Texas political maps, racial representation takes a back seat

This historically red Texas county diversified in the last decade. Now, Republicans are trying to divide up its voters of color.

South Texas was already a political battleground. New maps could alter game plans.

Texas nursing homes turn to state for help with staffing woes as vaccine mandate looms

Texas House proposes map that increases Republican strength and decreases Black and Hispanic majority districts

Analysis: Texas government won’t represent the state’s population unless its political maps do

Texas appears to be paying a secretive Republican political operative $120,000 annually to work behind the scenes on redistricting

Matthew Dowd, former George W. Bush strategist, to run as Democrat for Texas lieutenant governor

Days after disclosing election “audits” in four Texas counties, secretary of state’s office gives some details of their scope