Campaigns
The 2026 primary elections in Texas had their fair share of excitement and controversy Tuesday night. But one thing that stood out more than anything else was the turnout. Specifically, in the Democratic primaries, which soared above the Republicans.
Election Reform
Earlier this week, a three-judge panel blocked a mid-decade gerrymander by the Texas Legislature designed to bolster the Republican Party’s razor-thin majority in the U.S. House, setting the stage for what could become a complex legal matter.
Election Reform
A federal court has blocked Texas from using its newly approved congressional map, halting Republican efforts to add five seats that could have strengthened their majority in Washington.
Opinion
In the midst of a Republican Party lawsuit against the State of Texas to close its publicly administered primary elections to party members only, Attorney General Ken Paxton has decided not to defend Texas law.
Election Reform
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking the extraordinary step of refusing to defend the state’s election laws and the Texas secretary of state in a federal lawsuit filed by his own political party, even as he runs in the very election those laws govern.
Cannabis
The landscape for cannabis in the United States continues to shift on multiple fronts, with recent developments spanning state tax relief, federal enforcement, and congressional roadblocks to reform.
Election Reform
The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is suing Secretary of State Jane Nelson in an effort to close the state’s primary elections to party members only – a move that the Democratic Party of Hawaii (DPH) tried back in 2013 in its state and failed.
Election Reform
Republicans currently hold a narrow 219 to 212 edge over Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, with four vacancies: three from Democratic members who have died and one from a Republican who has resigned. This is the smallest House majority held by either party in nearly a century. The razo
Election Reform
Texas Governor Greg Abbott wasted no time in escalating the state’s redistricting battle. Within two hours of the previous special session ending on August 15, Abbott called lawmakers back to Austin with instructions to deliver a new map.
Campaigns
A familiar fight resurfacing in Texas politics: who gets to decide when election-related crimes should be prosecuted — the local district attorney whose office sits in the community, or the state attorney general in Austin?
Campaigns
Texas is an open partisan primary state, which means it does not have to register voters by party affiliation. When voters go to the polls in the primary, they can freely choose between a Republican and a Democratic ballot.
Election Reform
It seems like the standoff in Texas over redistricting continues to escalate, as Governor Greg Abbott and other top Republicans want to see Texas Dems who have fled the state arrested and brought back so that they can redraw congressional lines.