On Friday Texas Lyceum released its annual statewide poll, a major survey on the top issues facing Texans and their opinion on Texas leaders. The biggest attention-grabbing news from the poll is just how close things are at the top of the ticket in the 2022...
Texas House lawmakers recently penned a letter to Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Jaime Masters expressing concern with Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to investigate the parents of transgender youth for child abuse. Lawmakers said the order (which...
In North Texas, a runoff election between a Republican incumbent and challenger has generated headlines over whether or not there should be death penalties for abortions. The race for House District 91, however, goes beyond that gruesome debate and highlights just how...
Attorney Amanda Edwards has worn many hats in the political and public service space, where her passion in law, civic leadership, and community building have bloomed into action. After serving for four years as an At-Large Position 4 member on the Houston City...
On the second day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court, the esteemed jurist got a double whammy of questioning from the two senators from Texas that sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Neither John Cornyn nor Ted Cruz had the...
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) is in the hot seat after a recent sex-trafficking scandal showed just a sneak peek at injustices against children in the foster care system. Earlier this month a report out of Bastrop County accused...
Tweets from Texas Republicans have a history of aging like milk and Ted Cruz might take the cake in this regard. Last May, the senator shared Russian propaganda on Twitter while implying that the “woke” U.S. military would stand no chance against their tough,...
It’s been exactly one week since the Texas primary election and ballots across the state are still being counted. Over the weekend, Harris County Election officials said 10,000 mail-in votes, “were not transferred and counted as a part of the unofficial final results...
When Republicans created this decade’s new redistricting maps, perhaps the biggest beneficiary was Collin County Congressman Van Taylor (TX-3). His newly redrawn district shifted from purple to red and he seemed poised to cruise to reelection. Flash forward a few...