Texas
A Push To Remove LGBTQ Books In One County Could Signal Rising Partisanship On School Boards
A Texas county’s refusal to remove two books from the children’s section of the library sparked a yearslong political battle. Now school board races have taken on a deeply partisan tone, and elections serve as a purity test for far-right politics.
Officials Scramble To Contend With Texas’ New Restrictive Voting Law Ahead Of Primaries
“It’s like we’re going back in time," one voting rights advocate observed.
Five Points On Greg Abbott’s Disastrous National Guard Border Deployment
What began as a political posturing has spectacularly backfired, with a human toll.