Rochelle Garza, a former staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, announced this week she is jumping into the race for Texas Attorney General. The statewide office is already pursued by two other Democratic candidates, civil rights attorney Lee Merritt...
A poll released this week by the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation shows Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke are in a “dead heat” for the top executive office in Texas. Abbott leads O'Rourke 44% to 43% among 2020 voters, according to the poll that surveyed 1,400...
On Thursday morning, Greg Abbott announced he was appointing attorney John Scott to be the Texas Secretary of State, the Chief Election Officer for Texas. The move was notable for Scott’s connection to former President Trump and his attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s...
Greg Abbott’s newest executive order against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, banning any entity including a private business from issuing the health and safety protocol, is the latest sign that he is running an unabashedly ultra right-wing campaign. Abbott is on a mission...
Texas House lawmakers are debating new proposed state house district lines, with a vote expected late Tuesday to advance the gerrymandered map and bring it closer to becoming law. Much of the debate over the map has focused on how statehouse districts in major metro...
A packed room at the University of Houston caught a glimpse of the next big thing happening in Texas on Saturday, and the ceremonies felt decidedly different from those that have come before it. That’s because the organization hosting the day’s proceedings is no...
Texas has received yet another failing grade, this time from Princeton University's Gerrymandering Project, a group of researchers that employ math as a watchdog against unfair district maps. Led by neuroscience professor and elections statistician Sam Wang, the...
The left-leaning political organization Working Families Party announced Thursday it would be once again endorsing Jessica Cisneros for Congress. Working Families Party endorsed Cisneros in 2020 when she came within four percentage points of unseating conservative...
Even though redistricting maps have yet to be passed in the state legislature, candidates for the midterm election are announcing runs for several offices and endorsements are starting to roll in across the state. Latino Victory Fund, a progressive political action...