Texas

Austin ISD voted 5-4 to keep transgender athletics policy. Parents organized recall. 78,000 signed in three days.

Texas border communities report overwhelming arrivals, exhausting law enforcement capacity and social services. Local officials plead for federal support as processing centers overflow.

$1.1 billion against a Texas oil heir who put a toddler in a wheelchair. The verdict is historic. The question is why it took this long.

The TSA pay standoff has Texas airports at the center of a federal dysfunction story. But the real story is simpler: Washington created a dependency, now Washington can't manage it, and Texans are paying the price.

Texas's lawsuit over border enforcement authority isn't just about immigration. It's the most significant Tenth Amendment challenge in a generation.

Chris Talarico is already angling for the general election while his primary runoff isn't settled. That tells you everything about the Democratic playbook in Texas, and why it keeps failing.

A Democrat wins a Texas state race and suddenly the GOP is in crisis? The panic is overblown, but the lesson buried inside it is one Republicans can't afford to ignore.

A charismatic Democrat wins a Texas special election and the left starts dreaming of a blue state. But charm isn't a platform, and Texas voters haven't changed their minds about what matters.

The Texas Senate primaries aren't just a race. They're a referendum on whether Republican voters still trust the people claiming to represent them.

The political science of compact electoral minorities is real and fascinating. What Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico do with that power is a different question entirely.