5th Republican in a week decides to quit Congress
Rep. Mike Conaway is the second Republican from Texas to announce his retirement in the last week.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 31, 2019Rep. Mike Conaway is the second Republican from Texas to announce his retirement in the last week.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 31, 2019Republican Rep. Chip Roy faces a challenge from Democrat Wendy Davis, a woman’s health hero with national name recognition.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 22, 2019A new study shows 15,600 deaths could have been prevented if states controlled by Republicans had expanded Medicaid eligibility.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 22, 2019The former Republican called Trump ‘the worst president in the history of this country.’
By Dan Desai Martin - July 17, 2019An ethics complaint related to illegal campaign contributions was filed against Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-TX).
By Dan Desai Martin - July 10, 2019The law will allow GOP lawmakers who control the 2020 redistricting process to hide their communications.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2019Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is about to sign a bill that would all but end early voting on college campuses.
By Emily Singer - June 25, 2019Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, demanded that his Department of Public Safety create a list later used to push baseless voter fraud claims.
By Lisa Needham - June 05, 2019El Paso didn’t want Trump there in the first place, and now his campaign won’t pay the city nearly half a million dollars it owes.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 03, 2019David Whitley was about to be pushed out of office for waging a botched voter purge.
By Emily Singer - May 28, 2019Republican lawmakers in Texas passed a bill to end mobile polling sites that help disabled veterans and the elderly vote.
By Emily Singer - May 24, 2019Photos show families and children being held in disturbing conditions at a Texas border patrol station.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 14, 2019An insidious new trend is emerging from Republican-held state legislatures in response to a surge of new Democratic voters in 2018.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2019Texas tried to purge 95,000 people from the voter rolls by claiming they voted illegally. But it was all a lie.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2019Texas Republicans are considering a bill that would classify abortions as homicide, which in Texas is punishable by death.
By Emily Singer - April 10, 2019More Republican lies about voter fraud were exposed, this time deep in the heart of Texas.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 28, 2019Republicans in North Carolina tried to steal an election through massive election fraud, and Trump’s response was a conspiracy theory-laden rant full of lies.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 22, 2019Texas’ Republican attorney general Ken Paxton still faces felony criminal charges for securities violations. Now his wife, a state senator, wants to give his office more power over the securities industry.
By Lisa Needham - February 18, 2019Republicans in Texas are already admitting they’re in trouble.
By Oliver Willis - February 14, 2019El Paso residents are furious Trump is having a rally in their city and are speaking out about his border wall.
By Emily Singer - February 11, 2019Sen. John Cornyn is preparing himself for a big fight as Texas could be slipping away from the GOP.
By Oliver Willis - February 05, 2019State GOP officials in Texas should have checked their math before alleging a massive voter fraud scheme that doesn’t exist.
By Lisa Needham - January 30, 2019Ted Cruz is panicking about his re-election campaign — and he’s only making things worse for himself.
By Bernie Dennler III - August 14, 2018Ted Cruz is struggling to keep his Senate seat in Texas against a strong challenge from Democrat Beto O’Rourke.
By Oliver Willis - August 08, 2018Decorated Air Force veteran MJ Hegar is running for Congress, and she’s out with a powerful new ad some are calling ‘the best political ad anyone’s ever seen.’
By Matthew Chapman - June 25, 2018Law enforcement officials are speaking out against Trump’s inhumane treatment of kids.
By Eric Boehlert - June 21, 2018‘What are you doing?!’ came the angry crowd response to Rep. Michael Burgess.
By Eric Boehlert - June 19, 2018What’s the opposite of having a golden touch? Ask Mike Pence.
By Eric Boehlert - May 23, 2018The epidemic of deadly campus shootings spreads to Santa Fe High School as Republicans and the NRA stand in the way of gun reform, offering ‘thoughts and prayers’ and nothing else.
By Eric Boehlert - May 18, 2018Ted Cruz’s campaign schedule lays out a leisurely path that allows him to fly from town to town on private airplanes. His opponent Beto O’Rourke has been driving from town to town.
By Oliver Willis - March 31, 2018