Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) would defeat expected Democrat opponent Colin Allred in a Senate race by five points, according to a narrative-kneecapping poll.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said that with recent redistricting efforts, Republicans were “trying to take us back to prior to the late former President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law.”
The Texas House Democrats who abandoned their state in protest of the Republican-led redistricting effort will return home after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) took “emergency action” to begin removing the absent legislators as they refused to show up for work.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a state court clear the way for law enforcement officials to arrest Democrat Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke for allegedly violating a court order barring him from fundraising for the statehouse Democrats who fled Texas to delay the redistricting process for U.S. congressional seats in the state.
This video of CNN’s Jake Tapper humiliating himself personifies the regime media in a 52-second nutshell.
The Texas Supreme Court set an “expedited” schedule for briefs to be filed by the parties involved in Governor Greg Abbott’s lawsuit to vacate the House seat of Rep. Gene Wu. The schedule requires all briefs to be filed and
Democrats are claiming the Texas state legislature is attempting to “rig the midterm elections” despite an analysis demonstrating that Democrat-led states disenfranchise Republican voters on a massive scale through gerrymandering.
A migrant working as an Uber rideshare driver is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman in Friendswood, Texas — an area southeast of Houston.
Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) accused Republicans of trying to systemically “get rid” of black representatives in Congress.
Governor Gavin Newsom (CA-D) on Monday posted a letter to President Donald Trump on X stating his plans to redraw California’s congressional districts if states under Republican leadership move forward with what he called “hyper-partisan gerrymanders” ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Texas and 14 other states have joined the One Big Beautiful Lawsuit to do away with NFA registration requirements for suppressors and short-barreled rifles and shotguns.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott traveled to Ingram, Texas, to deliver $25,000 checks from country-western legend George Strait to families devastated by the deadly Independence Day Hill Country flooding. The checks delivered by Abbott on Saturday were part of the more than $7 million raised during Strait’s benefit concert on July 27. Aid and other support for Hill Country communities is being delayed by Texas House Democrats who broke quorum to stop the state’s congressional redistricting plan.
Saturday on MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) claimed Republicans had taken their hoods off in President Donald Trump’s second term.
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) says something racist every day of the week.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) vowed the next time Democrats were in power they would “drive that car” like they stole it in order to “legalize every Dreamer” and every Dreamer’s parents.
East Texas police officers arrested a three-time deported criminal alien gang member after he led officers on a high-speed pursuit through two counties. The pursuit ended when the driver, a Mexican national illegally present in the United States, lost control of his vehicle and crashed.
The Lebanese immigrant who owns several Trump-themed restaurants in the Houston, Texas, area may be deported due to allegedly overstaying his visa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that Democrats do not have their hands clean when it comes to gerrymandering and stated that the fight over redrawing congressional maps in Texas is an example of what
A Texas district court judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order against Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to stop what Attorney General Ken Paxton described as a “misleading financial-influence scheme to fund runaway Democrats who fled Texas to break quorum. ” The order stops O’Rourke and his political group, Powered By People, from fundraising and expending funds to support Democrat House Representatives who fled the state to prevent the passage of congressional redistricting in the special session called by Governor Greg Abbott.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is considering entering the race for Texas attorney general, two sources told The Hill. The potential campaign would come as the seat becomes open for the first time since 2014, following Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision to challenge Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) in the 2026 Republican primary.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit on Friday to pursue judicial declarations that 13 seats held by runaway House Democrats have been vacated due to continued unlawful absences. The move comes after many House Democrats refused orders to return to the Texas Capitol to resume their duties in the called special session.
As the 1 p.m. deadline for a quorum call came and went, Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows announced a series of actions to hit House Democrats in their pocketbooks.
The deadline for jet-setting Texas House Democrats to return to the Capitol and resume their duties looms at 1 p.m. CDT on Friday. Texas officials warn that if the legislators do not return to work, their seats will be vacated,
On Thursday’s broadcast of Chicago PBS station WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that there was “a good-faith effort” with drawing Illinois’ congressional maps, but “It is a partisan process in our state,” but “what
The quorum break never would have happened if Republicans did not allow it, Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, discussing the challenges swirling around the redistricting efforts in the Lone Star State and the efforts to get Democrats back to do their jobs.
The Texas legislature is run by Democrats thanks to RINOs, Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily as the Lone Star State comes into the spotlight over redistricting efforts.
President Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100 percent tariff on all computer chips imported to the United States, with exemptions for companies that commit to building facilities on U.S. soil.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is the latest Democrat to performatively threaten retaliatory redistricting, despite her state’s congressional delegation consisting of zero Republicans to remove. Healey joined leftwing Democrat Govs. Gavin Newsom (CA), JB Pritzker (IL), Kathy Hochul (NY), and others
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Briefing,” Texas State Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins (D), one of several lawmakers who left the state to avoid a quorum, said she and her colleagues were “trying to save America.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) argued that partisan gerrymandering in Maryland is “so different” from what Texas is doing because the Texas map “is a map directly from Mar-a-Lago. This is not a Texas
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) discussed the debate over congressional maps in Texas and stated that “we compete with Georgia and other states for voter suppression…but it’s bigger than Texas. We’ve got to involve
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the investigation into whether Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s political group’s contributions to the House Democratic Caucus members are breaking the law. The investigation could lead to bribery charges if the State can prove the group is paying legislators not to exercise their vote on the measure to redistrict Texas’s congressional seats.
Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) authored an opinion piece this week accusing Texas Republicans of orchestrating a “legal insurrection” through their proposed mid-decade redistricting plan. The op-ed, which highlights growing interstate political tensions, followed efforts by Texas Democrats to block the GOP-favored map by fleeing the state.
Tuesday on CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said President Donald Trump was a “wannabe Hitler” who has “a problem with people of color.”
The state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against several of the largest pornography platforms on the internet, including XVideos and Bang Bros, alleging that the porn companies have failed to comply with the state’s age verification law.
Governor Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court seeking to begin the process for the removal of House Democrat Caucus Chairman Gene Wu and others. The Chairman, along with most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to block a quorum in protest of the GOP’s efforts to carry out congressional seat redistricting.
On Tuesday’s edition of CBS’s “Late Show,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) acknowledged that Illinois’ congressional maps look like kindergartners drew them, but argued that it’s different because they did it after the Census and their gerrymandering isn’t racially discriminatory.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) responded to a question on how Illinois has drawn its lines by stating that they drew theirs after the Census and they have racial diversity in their
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a press release revealing that he would be seeking “judicial orders declaring that runaway Democrats who fail to appear by the Speaker’s deadline have vacated their office.” The press release added that Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows had given Democrats a deadline of Friday, August 8, by which to “return to Texas and present themselves before the House.”
On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” Illinois Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Juliana Stratton (D) argued that Illinois isn’t gerrymandered, “we have competitive districts here in Illinois. And the reason why those competitive districts have gone to Democrats is because
