For too long, the Rio Grande Valley has been the most misunderstood, if not ignored, part of the state. That’s been especially true for politics, where Republicans have largely been irrelevant and Democrats have struggled to harness one of their greatest opportunity...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congress members introduced the Vanessa Guillen Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act in a press conference on Wednesday. If passed, this bill would require military officers to turn over sexual assault and...
Governor Greg Abbott made no secret that this legislative session would be dominated by ultra-conservative priorities to flex his rightwing credentials. However, one of his latest moves, a veto of Senate Bill 1109, is leaving many flummoxed at his motivation. On...
On Tuesday a grand jury cleared eight officers of any wrongdoing and will not be charged in the death of Marvin Scott III, a Black man killed in police custody in Mckinney, Texas on March 14. The grand jury also released a statement regarding the case: "We are...
Sixty-two Democrats from Texas are among more than 480 state legislators who have signed a letter to Congress urging leaders from both parties to pass voting rights and campaign finance reform legislation. The state lawmakers warned that 400 anti-voter bills...
On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott quietly vetoed a section of Senate Bill 1, the general appropriations bill funding the Texas government for the next two years. The victim of the partial veto was Article X, the legislature — something never before seen in Texas...
It’s widely known that Hurricane Harvey, one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, was supercharged by climate change. At least three separate studies have tried to quantify to what degree. In 2017, one research group led by Berkeley National Laboratory climate...
On Wednesday, Gina Ortiz Jones testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in her confirmation hearing for the position of Undersecretary of the Air Force. Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer and Iraq War veteran who previously ran as a Democrat in...
Gov. Greg Abbott held a press conference on Wednesday detailing the construction of his new border wall. Blaming Biden for abandoning Trump’s border wall, Abbott said Texas taxpayers would have to “step up.” To begin paying for the border wall, Abbott said the...