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Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George said the party intends to sue the state of Texas to close the Republican primaries.
Texas lawmakers quietly stopped funding the state construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico just four years after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed off on the project.. In ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, announced Tuesday he would not seek ...
Texas currently has an open primary system, which gives voters the opportunity to vote in either primary when they show up to vote, regardless of their party affiliation.
A political power play is quietly unfolding in Texas that could redraw the state’s congressional map and decide which power ...
Last week, the Texas Republican Party met for its State Republican Executive Committee meeting where they took steps to try and block their primary elections from “outside interference." ...
After all, they’ve dominated the state since seizing control of the Texas House in 2002. Consider the 2016 Texas GOP platform, approved months before Trump received the Republican nomination for ...