With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have both recently signaled new openness to winding down the state’ border security operation.

Across border counties, Trump's share of the vote rose almost 10 points from four years ago and was about 20 points higher than in his first presidential campaign in 2016.

Now, that the primary election has ended, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson said her office will conduct an audit, performing partial manual counts for the Nov. 5 election. “Texas leads the way in election integrity measures with checks before ...

The right to abortion won big this election—and so did the man who ended Roe v. Wade. Nowhere was that contradiction more pronounced than in Amarillo, Texas.

With Election Day in the past, the race for Texas House speaker is heating up as the Republican incumbent tries to hold onto the leadership role and a North Texas Republican tries to win it. Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont and Rep. David Cook of Mansfield are running for the post, as is Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos, a Richardson Democrat.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz locked in a third term in Congress Tuesday by defeating Democratic Rep. Colin Allred.

Republicans grew their majority in the Texas House with help from Gov. Greg Abbott, forging a path for a possible school voucher program next year.

Party strategists are looking for ways to translate support for abortion access more broadly into specific candidates up and down the ballot.

A Texas woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday after being charged with threatening to kill individuals including the federal judge overseeing the 2020 election subversion criminal case against Republican President-elect Donald Trump.

A Texas Republican has filed a bill this week that would allow either of the two state’s senators to be recalled if "they go rogue" midterm. Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Midlothian) introduced House Bill 1267 which states that either Sen.

Trump won Texas convincingly with 56.2 percent of the vote, 13.8 percentage points ahead of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris who secured 42.4 percent. Notably this was an improvement on 2020, when Trump beat Joe Biden in Texas by 5.6 points, and 2016 when he bested Hillary Clinton by 9 points.

In a Sept. 5 speech, Trump pitched the idea of a government efficiency commission to the Economic Club of New York.