The most expensive state House primaries this cycle were proxy wars over issues including casinos, tort reform and a lingering battle between establishment Republicans and more hardline conservatives.

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President Donald Trump asked Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to call the state legislature in for a special session where they could approve new Congressional maps that would redraw district lines in favor of ...

The Republican-dominated legislature in Austin began the process of picking which voters are represented by the state's 38 congressional seats in Washington. Earlier this year, President Trump called ...

Texas Rep. Dustin Burrows, Speaker of the House, adjourned the chamber Sine Die on Friday Aug. 15, 2025, in Austin. Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows adjourned the 2025 Legislature's first special ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Democrat lawmakers broke house quorum today. More than 50 Democrats in the lower chamber were not present when House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) gaveled in the ...

AUSTIN, Texas – Across the 140 days of the 89th Texas Legislature, lawmakers filed 11,503 Senate and House bills. By Sunday, June 22, which marked the final day for Gov. Greg Abbott to veto ...

GOP lawmakers in the Texas House of Representatives and Senate have gone all in on enacting a new congressional districts map that was drawn to give their party a better chance at gaining five ...

A political showdown is playing out between Texas Republicans and Democrats over redistricting mid-decade. This fight has nationwide implications over the balance of power in Congress in next year's ...

The redistricting process is a critical one in elections. Including one part of a city that holds more Democratic voters or a part of a deep-red rural area could mean enough to flip a House seat.