Patrick is president of the Texas Senate and is arguably the most powerful person in the Legislature. He appeared to support the idea of redrawing legislative boundaries to squeeze one or two more ...

There’s a place in the Texas Hill Country where time seems to have made a gentleman’s agreement with the locals to move just a little bit slower than everywhere else – that place is Llano, a riverside ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is doing two things vulnerable incumbent senators are not supposed to do eight months before their primary elections: He’s acknowledging that he’s in serious trouble ...

Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 8 into law, mandating most Texas sheriff’s offices participate in the federal 287(g) ...

Facing the possibility of losing control of the U.S. House next year, Republicans are considering aggressively gerrymandering ...

A political power play is quietly unfolding in Texas that could redraw the state’s congressional map and decide which power ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed East Texas State Representative Joanne Shofner’s Adopt-A-County Road program into law on Friday ...

But the justices also have 10 cases to resolve that were argued between December and mid-May. One of the argued cases was an ...

The plan would shift voters from safely red districts into blue ones. Members of the state’s Republican delegation aren’t ...

Tarrant County commissioners receive a new sixth and seventh version of a redistricting map from the Public Interest Legal Foundation ahead of the June 3 precinct map vote.

The trial in El Paso will hear a challenge over the redistricting maps drawn by the Legislature that are based on the 2020 census.

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