Emails reveal influence and control in exchange for promises of legal help

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker has a history of controversial associations.

It’s not the first time Abbott has engaged in Civil War adjacent rhetoric.

Recent state and local legal maneuvers signal that Texas’ conservative movement could be wading into a complicated Constitutional morass the country hasn’t dealt with since before the Civil War.

More than 16,000 babies were born in Texas in 2022 than in 2021, a new study from the University of Houston shows.

The lawyers were paid from his campaign, according to a report filed this week.

Allred, a Dallas congressman, is among several Democrats running to challenge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for a third term.

Cruz’s remarks fit into a larger trend of Republicans trashing schools and teachers.

Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.

Lawsuits based on false claims about voting equipment could delay millions of dollars in cost of living increases for retired teachers expected to arrive in January. The lawsuits also threaten to hold up state property tax cuts for homeowners — arguably Republicans’ signature policy achievement this year. Voters widely approved both policies this fall. Now Texas lawmakers are scrambling in hopes of preventing further delays

Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.

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The Texas judge who ordered the FDA to rescind approval of an abortion drug says drag shows aren’t protected by the First Amendment.

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A California store owner was allegedly killed for hanging her pride flag, more school districts are exploring anti-trans policies, and a Texas university's LGBTQ+ resource center prepares for the state's ban on diversity offices.

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Texas was sued over its restrictions on drag performances, an Oregon clinic was shut down by a bomb threat, and Florida reversed its ban on high school AP psychology curriculum.

Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care faces a legal challenge, the U.S. Senate failed to pass an amendment that would have banned pride flags from federal buildings, and more.

The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing, arresting migrants on trespassing charges and sending busloads of asylum-seekers to Democratic-led cities in other states.

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Suspended Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton and others wanted the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 overturned.

'Voters have been very clear. They do not want to live in a country where the government is making decisions about pregnancy,' says Richards, the former head of Planned Parenthood and current co-chair of American Bridge 21st Century.

Dr. Warren Hern, who has performed thousands of abortions in nearly 50 years of practice, says, 'This is the worst situation I've seen in this country in my life.'

Health care providers will have to stop offering any ‘transition’-related care to anyone under 18 if Gov. Greg Abbott signs the bill.

‘There are plenty of nonbinary [people] and trans men who are also having abortions and who need access and should be included in the conversation,’ Cazembe Murphy Jackson said.

The NFL veteran and Obama administration alum will seek to be the first Democrat elected statewide in Texas since 1994.

Five people in a Texas town, including a 9-year-old boy, were shot to death in their home by a neighbor with an AR-15 on Friday.

Erin Reed says state legislators 'are continuing to increase the ways in which they target the community.'

Mental health experts say omitting psychiatric crises from the list of exceptions to abortion bans could cost people their lives.

With the guidance of conservative think tanks and prominent Republicans, over 30 bills have been proposed in state legislatures across the country targeting gender, race and sexuality studies.