Week in Texas Politics

A smiling John Scott superimposed over the Attorney General's office
June 2, 2023

Abbott taps John Scott as interim attorney general after Paxton indictment

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May 19, 2023

A young girl has died in federal custody at a border station in Harlingen

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May 12, 2023

House OKs new border initiative, but waters down plans for ‘Border Protection Unit’

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A vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine provided to health care workers at Dell Medical School.
May 5, 2023

Ken Paxton’s latest lawsuit is against COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers

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April 28, 2023

‘Trump train’ drivers settle lawsuit after 2020 incident on a Texas highway

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April 21, 2023

Texas Senate passes bill to improve active shooter plans for schools

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April 14, 2023

China hawk Michael McCaul urges Texas legislators to act with caution

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April 7, 2023

Texas House comes out against school vouchers in initial vote

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U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee speaks at 'She the People' - a forum for 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates focusing on women of color held at Texas Southern University.
March 31, 2023

Sheila Jackson Lee is running for mayor of Houston

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Hands holding a packet of narcan nasal sprays and other medications
March 24, 2023

Texas teachers could be trained to administer opioid overdose-reversing drugs like Narcan

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Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy standing at a lectern with a microphone near his mouth, wearing a dark blazer and checked button-up shirt.
March 17, 2023

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy endorses Ron DeSantis for president

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Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy standing at a lectern with a microphone near his mouth, wearing a dark blazer and checked button-up shirt.
March 10, 2023

Biden’s border proposal gets muted praise from a Republican congressman

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March 3, 2023

Greg Abbott says if these corporate tax breaks return, renewable energy should be excluded

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February 24, 2023

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan announces his legislative priorities

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February 17, 2023

The FBI is investigating deaths in the Harris County Jail

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February 10, 2023

Texas sues over new Biden rules reclassifying some pistols as rifles

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February 3, 2023

Ken Paxton’s former employees are ready to settle their whistleblower case – but one still wants his day in court

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January 27, 2023

Gov. Abbott says this is why he’s keeping COVID emergency declarations for now

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January 20, 2023

Gov. Greg Abbott lays out priorities in inauguration speech

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January 6, 2023

Texas judge rules against program giving teens birth control without parental consent

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Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick leads the Texas State Senate on the opening day of the third Special Session of the 87th Legislative Session at the Texas State Capitol in 2021.
December 23, 2022

Texas Senate report on preventing school shootings has little to say on guns

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December 16, 2022

Ken Paxton sues Biden administration to allow foster care groups to practice LGBTQ discrimination

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Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, in a navy blue suit, speaking at a podium outside the Texas Capitol. He's holding a signthat reads "Don't mess With Texas Voters."
December 9, 2022

Texas Dems’ pick to lead House caucus could mean more confrontation next session

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Voting during a session of the Texas House of Representatives. The back of a man's head is in the foreground, while a sign with legislators' names and votes is in the background. Gabriel Cristóver Pérez/KUT News.
December 2, 2022

Far-right Republicans say Democrats shouldn’t chair any Texas House committees

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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz speaking with attendees at the 2022 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.
November 18, 2022

Ted Cruz’s unsuccessful bid to oust Mitch McConnell as Senate GOP leader   

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October 28, 2022

A prominent Republican is calling for Steve McCraw’s DPS resignation after Uvalde

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September 30, 2022

Migrant encounters at the border are higher today than they were before Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star began

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a man in a blue shirt and sitting in a wheelchair at a lectern in front of a tall metal fence with police and other officials around him
September 23, 2022

Calling Mexican cartels terrorists, Greg Abbott orders DPS to step up fentanyl-interdiction efforts

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Texas governor Greg Abbott speaks
September 16, 2022

Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star is stationing fewer troops at the border

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Two people hold a signs that read " I am the post-roe generation" and "The future is anti-abortion" in front of the Texas State Capitol in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 25, 2022. Karina Lujan/KUT
August 26, 2022

Abortion providers face $100,000 fines, life in prison as Texas ‘trigger law’ takes hold

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A law enforcement officer in Uvalde visits a memorial for the victims of the shooting at an elementary school.
August 12, 2022

State judge rules troopers’ Uvalde records can stay private – for now

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July 22, 2022

Indictments handed down in deadly San Antonio human smuggling case

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July 1, 2022

Ken Paxton says state could prosecute sodomy laws should Supreme Court, Texas law allow it

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A cache of weapons and ammunition on dusty, desert ground
June 10, 2022

Homeland Security is warning about a potential spike in extremist violence

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A photo illustration of money raining from the sky in the Texas House at the state Capitol Building.
May 20, 2022

‘Beaucoup bucks’ are going into the Texas Republican primary runoffs

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MCALLEN, TX. August 25th, 2018. The Rio Grande passes by the Anzalduas International Bridge. Julia Reihs/KUT
May 6, 2022

After Operation Lone Star drowning death, Texas Guard discourages future water rescues

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April 29, 2022

Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick want Texas’ Supreme Court to take up Ken Paxton’s whistleblower appeal

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File photos of Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott, photographed speaking at Repoublican events.
April 22, 2022

Education issues divide runoff endorsements from Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott

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April 15, 2022

‘Self-inflicted wounds’ are hurting South Texas Democrats’ chances in Congress

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A table is set up outside Juan Navarro Early College High School last month with information on how to register to vote.
April 8, 2022

One in eight mail-in ballots were rejected in Texas’ first election under new Republican voting laws

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April 1, 2022

Police killing of Botham Jean becomes unexpected issue in Dem runoff to replace Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson

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The white-clad chapel and buildings of The Refuge, a home for trafficked girls at the center of controversy.
March 25, 2022

Child care investigations head resigns, complains employees were ‘scapegoated’ over failure at home for trafficked girls

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Border fencing in Brownsville, Texas.
March 18, 2022

New questions over Abbott border initiative, after troops found stationed at wealthy ranches far from Mexico

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People line up for early voting outside the Gardner Betts Annex near riverside in Austin, Texas on Feb.25, 2022. Sheryl Wong for KUT.
March 11, 2022

The election snafus that lead to a resignation in Harris County

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March 4, 2022

How a video with a semi-nude candidate forced a runoff for Texas Railroad commissioner

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A group migrants waits at a gate near the U.S. and Mexico border in Del Rio on July 22, 2021. The group turned themselves over to the National Guard and Customs and Border Protection officials.
February 25, 2022

‘I hate it here’: National Guard members sound off on Texas border mission in leaked morale survey

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pill bottles and pills, lying in a pile
February 18, 2022

Texas ready to move on billion-dollar opioid settlement

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February 11, 2022

Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller could be in the fight of his political life

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Voting district maps on the desks of legislators, as part of redistricting efforts in the Senate, at the Texas State Senate on the opening day of the third Special Session of the 87th Legislative Session at the Texas State Capitol on Sep. 20, 2021.
February 4, 2022

Judges let primary proceed in Senate district called discriminatory

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a texas state sematpr wearing a black suit and black glasses bending over a desk looking at a colorful map of political districts, pointing at the map with his finger
January 28, 2022

Republican state senator says Texas map violates Voting Rights Act, plus more on attorney general and lieutenant gov. races

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texas gubernatorial candidate beto o'rourke standing in front of a microphone pointing, mid-speec, with a banner in the background that says resurrection and march for democracy
January 21, 2022

What new campaign finance reports say about the gubernatorial and attorney general races

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January 7, 2022

He voted for a bipartisan group to investigate Jan. 6. Now it’s a campaign issue.

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texas attorney general speaking to a group wearing a blue suit and blue striped tie
December 17, 2021

GOP attorney general hopefuls take aim at Paxton’s legal problems

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December 10, 2021

Matthew Dowd bows out of Democratic primary for lieutenant governor

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December 3, 2021

Governor’s ban on school mask mandates back in place, for now

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November 19, 2021

Beto O’Rourke’s big announcement tops the week in Texas politics

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November 5, 2021

Gun rights advocates back abortion providers in legal fight over citizen lawsuits

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A bunch of opioid pills like hydrocodone in their pharmacy bottles.
October 29, 2021

Texas opioid settlements are expected to surpass a billion dollars

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Gov. Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick in a file photo from 2019.
October 22, 2021

Texas’ top two lawmakers are at odds over the need for fourth special session

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October 15, 2021

Retirements, announcements as Texas Legislature nears end of third special session

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October 1, 2021

Texas AG Wants Local Governments To Sign Onto $26 Billion Opioid Settlement

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September 17, 2021

Ken Paxton Draws Another Republican Primary Opponent

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September 10, 2021

Third Special Session Coming For The Texas Legislature

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September 3, 2021

Millions Went To Gov. Abbott’s Wall Fund In August, But The Donor List Is So Far Opaque

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August 27, 2021

Ken Paxton Cleared Of Wrongdoing By … Ken Paxton

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Texas House members converse in the chamber, standing behind empty chairs with the Texas state seal on them.
August 20, 2021

Three Houston Democrats Return, Giving The Texas House Enough Members To Reach A Quorum

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texas capitol
August 13, 2021

This Week In Texas Politics: Arrest Warrants For House Dems, School ‘Revolt’ Over COVID Protocols

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August 6, 2021

Will Texas Voting Reforms Keep State Democrats in Washington? 

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an up-angle view of the front of the state capitol building
July 30, 2021

Texas House Speaker Signs Arrest Warrant For Missing Democratic Lawmaker

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The US Capitol dome, lit at dusk
July 23, 2021

After Several Test Positive For COVID, Texas Democrats In Washington Take More Zoom Meetings

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July 16, 2021

Who Is Footing The Bill For Texas Democrats’ Weekslong Exodus To Block The Voting Bill?

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July 9, 2021

Allen West Ramps Up The Drama In Final Days As Texas GOP Chair

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July 2, 2021

Three High-Profile Visitors Signal Texas’ Growing Role In National Politics

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June 25, 2021

UT/Texas Tribune Poll Shows Disconnect Between Texas Voters And State Legislators

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June 18, 2021

Greg Abbott Has Until Sunday To Sign Or Veto Legislation

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a view of the front of the Texas Capitol building
June 4, 2021

Texas’ GOP Leadership Already At Odds Over Plans For Special Legislative Session

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May 28, 2021

Texas Lawmakers Split Over How Long To Extend Medicaid Health Coverage For New Mothers

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the texas senate chamber
May 21, 2021

Some Texas House Priority Bills Get Bogged Down In The Senate

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the outside of texas' family and protective services building in Austin
May 14, 2021

Texas Officials Knew Foster Children Were Illegally Placed In An Unsafe Shelter. It Didn’t End Until A Whistleblower Came Forward.

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May 7, 2021

Permitless Carry Of A Handgun In Texas Nearly Law, After Senate Oks Bill

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icicles hanging off a roof
April 30, 2021

Texas Enabled The Worst Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Catastrophe In Recent US History

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April 23, 2021

Crowded Field Of Candidates Vie For 6th Congressional District Seat

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April 16, 2021

ERCOT’s Call To Conserve Electricity Sparks Concern Over Summer Demand

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Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush says he's mulling a challenge against the state's incumbent attorney general, Ken Paxton.
April 9, 2021

George P. Bush Hints At Run Against Attorney General Ken Paxton

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March 26, 2021

‘Vastly Underrepresented:’ They’re Hit The Hardest, But Black And Hispanic Texans Aren’t Getting Vaccine Access

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March 19, 2021

State Reports At Least 57 Dead From Winter Storm; Abbott Says He Wants To Fight Human Trafficking At Southern Border

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March 5, 2021

Texas Donors Eye UT Athletics After Players Protest School Anthem

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March 3, 2021

Fact Check: Have Investments In Wind Energy ‘Pushed Out’ Gas And Nuclear Power?

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a box of face shields at a COVID-19 vaccination site
February 26, 2021

Winter Storm Delayed 450,000 Vaccinations In Texas; Millions Of Doses Are Now Available

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February 19, 2021

Experts Called For Winterization Of Texas’ Electrical Infrastructure Long Before Storm

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texas attorney general ken paxton wearing a blue suit standing in front of an american flag
February 12, 2021

Ken Paxton Under Fire, And Greg Abbott Talks Loosening COVID Restrictions

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February 5, 2021

Greg Abbott’s State Of The State, Renters’ Assistance For Texans And More Immigration Orders From Washington

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oil pumpjack with wind turbines in the background
January 29, 2021

Four Texas Democrats Ask Biden To Halt Federal Drilling Restrictions

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The Texas state capitol
January 22, 2021

Election Consequences: Texas And The Biden Administration Likely Headed For Conflict

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The Texas state capitol
January 15, 2021

The Texas Legislature Gavels In

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president Biden
January 8, 2021

Biden Picks Texans For White House Roles; State Moves Ahead With Online STAAR Test Plans

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musician george strait onstage with his guitar
December 18, 2020

Abbott Inaugural Spending Included $1.7 Million To Hire Musician George Strait

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hand with pencil filling out test paper
December 11, 2020

Schools To Test STAAR Lite

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Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
December 4, 2020

Prepping For A Pandemic Lege; How Texas Republicans May Adjust To Loss Of Senate Supermajority

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November 20, 2020

As FBI Investigates Abuse Of Office Charges, Former Aides Sue Ken Paxton

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