Texas House Republicans passed partisan House Bill 6 out of the House Elections Committee on Thursday, moving the bill forward toward a full House vote. The election bill would impose criminal penalties on local election officials and is a part […]
U.S. Congresswoman Veronica Escobar joined nine other lawmakers on Wednesday in signing the lawsuit accusing former president Donald Trump of inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in January. Originally filed in February by the National Association for the […]
Gov. Greg Abbott announced plans on Monday to boycott Major League Baseball events following the league’s decision to pull its All-Star Game from Georgia. The Texas governor cited the ‘false narrative’ of voter suppression as motivating his decision. The MLB […]
In an official statement released today, Texas GOP Party Chairman Allen West attacked what he described as the “new woke fascist corporate oligarchy” and the recent For the People Act. Reaffirming his conviction that pandemic-related election measures taken up before […]
After attracting heavy criticism from voting rights advocates and Texans across the state, the Senate Bill 7 passed the Senate Committee on State Affairs on Friday evening and now heads to the full Senate for a final vote. Authored by […]
After naming election integrity as an emergency item this session in his February State of the State address, Governor Greg Abbott was joined by Senator Paul Bettencourt and Representative Briscoe Cain at a press conference in Houston to discuss the […]
Following historic turnout and increased mail voting in 2020, state lawmakers across the country have introduced a plethora of bills aimed at election procedures and voter access. In Texas, five Republican state senators filed seven “election integrity” bills, which would […]
Texas legislators voted along party lines in the U.S. House to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GE-R) of her committee assignments following accusations of dangerous misinformation and execution endorsements of Democratic colleagues. Recently unearthed incendiary and violent statements from […]
Following an ethics complaint filed by seven Democrats in the U.S. Senate against Sens. Ted Cruz (TX-R) and Josh Hawley (MS-R), Sen. John Cornyn (TX-R) defended his colleagues in an interview. “I wish he had won, but he didn’t win, […]
Liz Cheney, the third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House, has attracted support from senior Republicans, but now faces an uphill battle after she broke with her party to impeach former president Donald Trump. The powerful conservative joined a small cohort […]
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