For reproductive rights advocate Amanda Zurawski, it was akin to her team winning at the Super Bowl—tenfold. When Democrats swept all statewide races on election night in a historic Texas midterm ...
State police have enabled Trump's mass deportations. New Democratic statewide leaders could move to end the agency's "task ...
Of the 21 people from Harris County most recently sentenced to death, all but one was a person of color, according to a report released today by the nonprofit Texas Defender Service (TDS). The report ...
Clean-energy startups could regain the public's trust and help address the climate crisis. But their alliance with data ...
Over the course of 12 years at the helm of Texas state government, Greg Abbott became arguably the most powerful governor—de jure and de facto—in the history of Texas. His rule grew progressively ...
As another Democratic woman heads for the governorship, the Observer shares an archival piece looking back at the last.
After two years of being ground zero for the Trump administration’s nationalist policies, the region dramatically swung for ...
The Tejano star ousted a two-term Republican incumbent, but now that the music’s over, what kind of congressman will he be?
A script is included at the bottom of the HTML text—available here at left to be copied—that allows us to track traffic on ...
After her shocking defeat of two-term incumbent Dallas District Attorney John Creuzot in the March Democratic primary, ...
A few months back, Governor Greg Abbott wailed about the threats coming from “socialist cities like Austin, Houston, and Dallas.” Whether or not you share my excitement about the possibilities of a ...
It was, as ever, a stark referendum on a county that has been the epicenter for the state’s right-wing extremism.