AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Senator John Cornyn wrapped up his Get Out the Vote efforts on Tuesday, stopping by the Republican Party of Texas headquarters in downtown Austin to thank supporters and pose for photos with campaign staffers and volunteers.
AUSTIN, Texas — Polls are closed in the majority of Texas — voting remains open until 8 p.m. Central/7 p.m. Mountain time in the El Paso area — and the Texas Secretary of State has posted the early vote totals,
AUSTIN, Texas — In the final day before Election Day, Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for Texas Governor, worked hard to rally supporters to get out the vote. Abbott met with supporters and press in Houston and Austin, and then
AUSTIN, Texas — Last month, records were produced showing that officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) misled Congress and the American people when they claimed that 2,200 undocumented immigrants released from detention facilities to save money were only
AUSTIN, Texas — Statistician and journalist Nate Silver has released his forecasts for the 2014 gubernatorial elections around the country, and the results are less than encouraging for Democrat Wendy Davis’ hopes of being elected Texas’ next Governor. On his
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has made great progress in the area of criminal justice reform, but there is still a long way to go. That was the consensus message from a panel discussion earlier last month at the University of
AUSTIN, Texas — As the final days of the 2014 election cycle wind down, the Republican candidates running for statewide offices are feeling confident about their chances next Tuesday. Breitbart Texas reached out to the campaigns to hear their thoughts
AUSTIN, Texas — The Bexar County Democratic Party has launched a controversial Spanish-language ad during the final week before the November 4 elections, calling tea party Republicans “radical terrorists.” The ad begins showing the American and Mexican flags, with a
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas media landscape experienced some upheaval on Friday, when the Texas Tribune announced that their partnership with the New York Times was coming to an end, days after an announcement that the Times was entering into
AUSTIN, Texas — This is a story about a candidate taking a photo with a stranger. On October 16, 2014, Texas Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor Greg Abbott went to a campaign event in Brownsville that was open
AUSTIN, Texas — With the election only days away, Democrat candidate for Texas Governor Wendy Davis is holding nothing back in her efforts to attack her Republican opponent Greg Abbott. The challenge for Davis is that her past attacks have
AUSTIN, Texas — Thursday afternoon at a Randall’s grocery store in South Austin, Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor Greg Abbott cast his ballot during the next to last day of early voting. Among other locations, Travis County is
AUSTIN, Texas — This is a tough time to be Wendy Davis. Always viewed as a long shot in the Texas Governor’s race, she dropped even further in the polls after several weeks of ill-advised attacks that were viewed as
AUSTIN, Texas — Early Wednesday morning, a nurse who had been treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone returned to her home in Texas. The nurse, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, showed no signs of the disease, but
AUSTIN, Texas — With the release of the most recent campaign finance reports, Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor Greg Abbott is soaring ahead of his Democrat opponent, State Senator Wendy Davis, not just in the polls, but also
AUSTIN, Texas — The latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll shows that over two-thirds of Texas voters have a favorable opinion of the state’s Voter ID law, and over half have a very favorable opinion. The majority also do not
AUSTIN, Texas — An unmanned private spaceship, launched today from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, exploded shortly after liftoff at 6:22 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday. The Cygnus spacecraft, operated by the Dulles, Virginia based space technology company Orbital Sciences Corporation
AUSTIN, Texas — Just when the furor was starting to die down over Democrat Wendy Davis’ “empty wheelchair” ad attacking her Republican opponent Greg Abbott, a video from a Davis campaign event over the weekend is likely to spark that controversy
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Senator John Cornyn’s reelection bid is not considered to be in any serious danger, but his campaign has been engaged in a significant grassroots outreach effort throughout Texas, including in the state’s Hispanic and Vietnamese communities.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General and Republican nominee for Governor, Greg Abbott, released updated campaign fundraising numbers on Monday, showing the campaign in a very strong position as the last week of early voting begins. Abbott raised over $4.2
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has abandoned a controversial plan to convert paved roads to unpaved roads along the highway routes that lead to some of the state’s top oil producing areas. When this idea was
AUSTIN, Texas — As Breitbart Texas previously reported, a recent KHOU-TV/Houston Public Media poll asking likely Texas voters for their preferences for the Governor’s race showed that Wendy Davis was losing to Greg Abbott 47 percent to 32 percent, losing
AUSTIN, Texas — In response to news that broke earlier this week that the 2,200 undocumented immigrants that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials released from detention facilities last year to save money included some who had been charged with
AUSTIN, Texas — Friday night’s debate between Texas Senator John Cornyn and his Democrat challenger David Alameel held few surprises as Cornyn, the incumbent viewed by virtually all political observers as a shoe-in for reelection, stayed positive, while Alameel sought
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response, formed by Governor Rick Perry in response to the Ebola crisis, held its first official public hearing on Thursday, to hear testimony from several panels of witnesses
