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These two Republicans endorsed in dozens of Texas House races. One put his money where his mouth is.Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton disagree on who should win two dozen GOP primary races for the Texas House. Abbott has spent big in these races, while Paxton had relied on his endorsement and campaign appearances.
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Paxton, a Republican who has worked for years to block gender-affirming care for minors, has begun targeting out-of-state clinics and organizations that work with transgender youth.
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The Texas Newsroom received hundreds of pages of documents that pull back the curtain on last year's historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Shane James is accused of killing six people in a shooting spree that stretched across San Antonio and Austin. He had a long history of interactions with police.
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Paxton, a Republican who beat impeachment charges this year, has not reported at least a half dozen properties in Florida, Hawaii, Oklahoma and Utah to the state.
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School leaders from Lockhart and Liberty Hill want the Texas Legislature to invest in public education, not create a program that uses tax dollars to pay for private schools.
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A federal judge in Austin temporarily blocked a new state law restricting which books are available in school libraries. The state then appealed. But whether or not the law is upheld, efforts to censor what students can read have intensified in Texas.
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Critics of the law, House Bill 900, have warned it is too broad and that it could ban literary classics as well as restrict students' access to books with LGBTQ+ characters.
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Both Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature have balked at the idea of using state funds to pay the settlement.
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If the bill were to become law, it could affect not only schools but also programs, events and literature at any federally-funded institution. But its prospects are dim for now.