Party leaders want to close primaries to preclude Democrats from crossing over to vote for the more-centrist Republican candidates. But the data shows that few do so.
For almost three years, Texas DPS agents worked hand in hand with the feds, but their partnership has unraveled into a bitter standoff in Eagle Pass.
It’s unlikely Texas will depart from the union. But with Governor Greg Abbott spouting secessionist rhetoric over border security, talk of a “Texit” is getting a fresh look.
House leadership–backed Jill Dutton defeated anti-impeachment voucher proponent Brent Money in a special Texas House election.
Competing factions of the GOP have turned a small-stakes Texas House runoff into an all-out proxy war.
Ahead of Sunday’s AFL-CIO Senate Democratic primary debate, we came up with a slate of questions for both candidates. This is the only debate both Allred and Gutierrez, the race’s two front-runners, will attend.
Agriculture commissioner Sid Miller said he would duel state rep Glenn Rogers—with words. Technically, the real thing isn’t off the table.
Utility giant Aqua Texas pumped 66 million gallons beyond its legal limit in 2023.
Ivery Dorsey has proclaimed his innocence since he was arrested and convicted of murder in 2007. Now, he has help in his fight for freedom.
A procedural backlog is costing many eligible Texans the medical coverage they’re entitled to.
The front-runner for the Democratic Senate nomination to challenge Ted Cruz is raising gobs of money without traveling the state much—a strategy seemingly favored by the national party.
An auction this week will privatize the federal supply of the strategically important gas.
Luke Coffee, a Dallas-based actor and filmmaker, is trying to frame himself as a victim of excessive force.
U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland said the response to the massacre cost lives.
Medicaid covers half of all births in Texas.
The Longhorns and the Cowboys got thumped after receiving Cruz’s endorsement. Some say the junior senator is to blame.
Nine years ago, U.S. district judge Janis Jack ordered the state to fix its foster care system. Activists say kids are still suffering.
Last year, one in every ten Harris County renters faced losing their home. A new program aims to connect tenants with resources.
Politicians have labeled the battle over Ken Paxton’s impeachment as one between centrists and the far right. It’s not, according to our analysis of legislators’ voting records.
2023 was a busy, chaotic year in our state—with more happening than Texas Monthly alone could cover. Sixteen staffers selected their favorite stories from other outlets.
They just don’t apply, according to a new report that says many uninsured residents aren’t taking advantage of Affordable Care Act plans.
A self-described lifelong Republican voter, Sheila Foster accuses the governor of playing politics over the murder of her son, Garrett, at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.
With $2.5 million in federal grants, Amtrak and TxDOT will study adding passenger rail in Texas.
Having survived one big legal fight, the attorney general is eagerly picking new ones with Media Matters for America, Pfizer, the U.S. State Department, and a Texan with a nonviable pregnancy.
A weak slate of statewide Dems, a feeding frenzy among Republicans for open House seats, and some Abbott-versus-Paxton showdowns are all on the menu.
Glenn Beck went looking for proof that the Liberty County community is a cartel-controlled nightmare. He was surprised by what he found.
An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.
When Jena Ehlinger’s son Jake died of fentanyl poisoning, she was driven to find some meaning in her pain.
The impeachment trial of Ken Paxton delivered a steady stream of tantalizing entertainment. But the most consequential moments played out when few were watching.
One group that’s surprisingly bullish on Democrats’ chances to win a statewide race in the near future: Republican operatives.
Echoing a statewide trend, the team aims to prevent the tragedies that often result when armed police answer calls involving psychological emergencies.
If Occidental Petroleum acquires CrownRock, the right-wing Midland oilman could become an even bigger power broker—in Texas and perhaps nationally.
The think tank, founded by a conservative billionaire who supports Greg Abbott, ranks Texas 39 places behind California.
Traditionally, the capitol building has housed a gigantic tree. This year's is much more meager.
This week, the women-focused dating app joined dozens of other Texas companies that say ambiguity around life-saving medical care is bad for business.
Some seem tired of working in a place where so little gets done.
Long thought of as a presidential contender, the Texas governor has endorsed the former president—and supplicated for his favor.
A suspicious man brandished a shotgun in an Austin park—then in New York. The responses of the two police departments were markedly different.
He lived out his last years in Mexico as a real estate agent, dreaming of returning home to Texas with his husband.
A 1991 mass shooting in Killeen inspired legislation that has made Texas America’s most gun-friendly state.
The Other Ones Foundation, led by Chris Baker, transformed a state-run encampment site for Austinites experiencing homelessness into a welcoming refuge.
After Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, a crowd gathered in the Alamo City for an evangelical event that quickly turned into a call to arms.
The first stop of Ken Paxton’s revenge tour was in a North Texas House district, where his preferred candidate, Brent Money, reached a runoff.
State leaders are bullish on new atom-splitting technologies, even as those same officials hobble wind and solar projects.
Alligator snapping turtle populations in Texas were dwindling. One family of smugglers had been poaching them from the state for years.
For a long time, Texas Republican chairman Matt Rinaldi couldn’t win elections. Now he wants to decide them—by exacting revenge on opponents within his party.
After Hurricane Katrina, Darresha George moved her family to Texas. When school officials suspended her son for refusing to cut his hair, it unleashed a storm that shows no signs of easing.
The wealthy trial lawyer just helped acquit Attorney General Ken Paxton. Now he wants to fix potholes and broken water lines.
Residents of El Paso and Sunland Park, New Mexico, agree illegal immigration is a problem, but the Texas governor’s newest effort is little more than a PR stunt.
The city's University Medical Center is among the trauma centers dealing with many more migrants severely hurt in falls from the thirty-foot fence.
