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 Texas senator approvingly shared a video of law enforcement ramming into peaceful protesters.

Welcome to the Republican Party’s America.

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.

Gov’s veto spree included a bill that would have increased penalties for owners of attack dogs.

Texas has become the fourth GOP-led state to try to ban drag performances.

Greg Abbott’s move prevents local governments from passing needed regulations on things like labor rights, the environment, and more.

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

There’s only more of this to come.

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.

John Scott once agreed to represent Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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

The bill would have also targeted citizens of three other countries.

“What happened to these women is indefensible and is happening to countless pregnant people across the state.”