On Tuesday, Patrick and his allies were swept from power at virtually every level of state government—a generational setback ...

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I’ve covered every election in Texas since 2006. Tuesday night’s results are, by far, the most shocking I’ve ever seen. For ...

Former Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan saw it coming—at least in part. Three weeks ago, when he and I sat down for an ...

Over the course of the evening, the mood turned from hopeful anticipation to sullen resignation. By a little after 10 p.m., ...

DCC director Kelli Finglass lobbied Mattel for over a decade before the dolls hit shelves. Now they’re treasured by ...

Democrat Jon Rosenthal will take a seat on the three-member Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees the state’s oil and gas ...

Texas Democrats rushed to celebrate a jubilant night, the likes of which the party hasn't seen in decades. Even early in the ...

I first met Ben Flores last fall, at his small pig farm on the outskirts of Bay City, a working-class town about half an hour north of Matagorda Bay. The cybersecurity consultant—who relocated his ...

The Brownsville-raised state representative helped snap the Democratic Party’s three-decade losing streak with an upset ...

The mild-mannered seminarian and state lawmaker will be the first Democratic senator from Texas in decades.