The Fifth Circuit’s well-documented judicial shenanigans have earned a surprising rebuke from the high court.

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale likes making viral videos and huge bets on Houston sports teams. He’s also spending big to push the state even further right.

They don’t expect fossil fuels to be phased out anytime soon.

A visit to the valley that’s supposedly trending Trump reveals that Democrats still have an advantage—but people’s lives don’t always fit into ideological boxes.

The Texas National Guard has deployed lies, fire, and razor wire in what’s been a largely inept attempt to deter asylum-seekers.

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says the state should step in if the private sector fails to build natural gas facilities. How about renewables instead?

The sham impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas shows that the GOP now exists solely to please Trump.

The recent Texas razor-wire case highlights the way the justices can use the so-called “shadow docket” to resolve disputes while obfuscating their rationale.

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.

PLUS: Why Jamie Raskin isn’t running for the Senate

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.