Texas officials are trying to take immigration enforcement into their own hands
Gov. Greg Abbott has constructed a chain-link fence in Del Rio, Texas, to stop migrants.
By Oliver Willis - July 20, 2021Gov. Greg Abbott has constructed a chain-link fence in Del Rio, Texas, to stop migrants.
By Oliver Willis - July 20, 2021Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told a talk show host he has ‘another solution.’
By Casey Quinlan - July 20, 2021The proposal disproportionately targets counties that voted for President Joe Biden.
By Oliver Willis - July 20, 2021Biden’s American Jobs Plan ‘will help prepare us before the next big cold snap hits,’ Steve Brown writes.
By Steve Brown - July 14, 2021The Texas Legislature is considering bills banning trans student athletes from sports teams.
By Casey Quinlan - July 13, 2021Dozens of Democratic state representatives left Texas for Washington, D.C., in an effort to both block a GOP voter suppression bill, as well as convince Congress to pass voting rights legislation.
By Emily Singer - July 13, 2021Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for reelection as ‘conservative, stalwart leader with a deep passion and respect for our U.S. Constitution.’
By Josh Israel - July 12, 2021Democrats are also protesting Republican attacks on transgender kids and other right-wing legislation.
By Emily Singer - July 12, 2021From ‘election integrity’ to ‘critical race theory’ to targeting transgender students, Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda is red meat for the GOP base.
By Emily Singer - July 07, 2021New polls show little support for GOP efforts to suppress the vote, ban abortions, and eliminate gun licensing and training requirements.
By Josh Israel - June 25, 2021The program will receive $100 million in the next financial year, up from $20 million in 2017.
By Lisa Needham - June 14, 2021Experts and advocates say Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s move to shut down shelters could seriously disrupt the program for unaccompanied migrant children.
By Associated Press - June 08, 2021Allen West, notorious for bigoted comments and conspiracy theories, announced his resignation from the top party position.
By Emily Singer - June 04, 2021‘This is a transparent and troubling ploy to politicize a humanitarian crisis,’ said the head of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021Paxton Smith spoke out against a new Texas law that outlaws abortion as early as six weeks after conception, when many are unaware they are pregnant.
By Associated Press - June 03, 2021Gov. Greg Abbott has begun punishing and taunting Democrats while he settles on when he will order them back to work.
By Associated Press - June 02, 2021Republicans tried to cut back on Sunday voting hours, which would impact voter events organized by Black churches.
By Emily Singer - June 02, 2021Georgia Democrats’ focus on narrow demographic slices of the electorate could prove especially intriguing to party leaders in other Southern Sun Belt states.
By Associated Press - May 26, 2021GOP lawmakers openly acknowledge that they are looking to upend the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.
By Lisa Needham - May 26, 2021The new Texas law prohibits state officials from being the ones to enforce the ban on abortion.
By Associated Press - May 19, 2021Scandal-plagued Republican Ken Paxton says challenger George P. Bush doesn’t have the ‘legal skills’ to be attorney general.
By Josh Israel - May 18, 2021Louisiana taxpayers may be on the hook for over $8 million after GOP lawmakers there took an abortion case to the Supreme Court and failed. Texas is following in the state’s footsteps.
By Lisa Needham - May 06, 2021Texas is emerging as the next major battleground in the GOP fight to make voting harder.
By Associated Press - May 05, 2021Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s lawsuit is backed by America First Legal, a group run by former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller.
By Oliver Willis - April 28, 2021Lawmakers have used the repeated lie that the 2020 election was rife with fraud as justification for their voter suppression bills.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2021There’s even a proposed bill that would impose the death penalty for both people who have an abortion and the providers who perform them.
By Lisa Needham - April 22, 2021Republican state lawmakers are debating a bill that would allow Texas to avoid following a provision in H.R. 1 requiring them to enact automatic voter registration for all citizens.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2021While lawmakers debate their rights in statehouses across the nation, trans youth refused to be left out of the conversation.
By Casey Quinlan - April 16, 2021Stephen Miller’s new group is advising states that are suing the Biden administration to block its policies.
By Oliver Willis - April 15, 2021The CEOS of some of the country’s biggest corporations publicly opposed Republicans’ continuing campaign against voting rights.
By Emily Singer - April 14, 2021