Portals for Medicaid recipients in all 50 states are down after President Donald Trump ordered a federal spending freeze ...

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On the first day of Trump's second term, the president passed a series of executive orders taking his crusade against ...

Abbott’s one-hour address will begin at 5 p.m. and will be broadcast to potentially more than 25 million Texans.

A healthy democracy has free and fair elections, robust civil liberties, multiparty competition and minimal corruption. Does ...

Democrats will serve as House committee vice chairs, which some lawmakers said harks back to the Texas tradition of power ...

A New York Times analysis shows new maps stifled partisan competition for seats in the House of Representatives and state ...

House Democrats were preparing a united front to strategically counter President Donald Trump before he was sworn back into ...

Instead of counting on hard-to-come-by local donors, three City Hall outsiders tapped their personal and professional ...

The Texas House of Representatives decided to ban members of the minority party from chairing committees in a vote on ...

New Texas House rules passed on Thursday prevent members of the minority party from holding influential committee chair ...

Texas has a Republican trifecta. The Republican Party controls the office of governor and both chambers of the state legislature. This page contains the following information on the Texas State Senate ...