The oil company’s attempt to exclude proposals to do marginally more about emissions has gotten farcical.

Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill this week declaring that the state will enforce federal immigration laws within its own borders. Even the Supreme Court may find that to be a bridge too far.

Attorney General Ken Paxton personally intervened to endanger Kate Cox’s life and preserve the Lone Star State’s post-Roe dystopia.

As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.

An anti-abortion activist and Texas’s attorney general have teamed up to try to force the organization out of the state—and now an anti-abortion judge has advanced their cause.

A recent poll shows the Texas Democrat only 5 percent behind the lightning-rod GOP incumbent. Here’s how he might pull off the cycle’s biggest upset.

Establishment Republicans in the state Senate are making a risky bet against the disenfranchised and conspiratorial wing of their party.

What if the point of state-level drag bans is not the legislation itself but rather the scapegoating of queer and trans people as enemies?

The weekend’s Iowa GOP presidential forum was run by the former Fox host, who pressed them on trans issues, the deep state—and death.

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The organizing and outrage over inmate heat deaths is reaching a crescendo this summer.

A new bill rolls back city-level rights for workers to take breaks during hot days—as Texas swelters through a punishing heat wave.

It is illegal in some states for transgender people to make public presentations that would be perfectly legal for cisgender people.

Conservatives are bringing back some tactics from the original drug war. They’re cruel—and they also don’t stand a chance of working.

The author of Texas’s abortion ban faced no opponent in 2022.

How far can he go in a state that Democrats don’t win?

Maybe it’s time to stop making fun of the Texas senator and start taking him seriously.

As Governor Greg Abbott prepares to sign a law banning gender-affirming care, teens face the possibility of being detransitioned against their will.

The party has not effectively countered the Republican plan to crush liberal power in the Lone Star State.

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