Immigration to the U.S. southern border has long been subject to cold-hearted racial demagoguery. The Statue of Liberty may have welcomed some of the “huddled masses” from Europe at different times, ...

Issues of the Seguin Times tell of the coming of Seguin into the political limelight with the election of John Ireland as governor of Texas in 1882 and the laying of the Seguin Street Railway in 1885.

Primrose St., open from 4 to 10 p.m. Phone: 417-883-4700; Applebee's, 2430 N. Glenstone Ave. open from 4 to 10 p.m. Phone: ...

Texas’ top elections official told the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday its election monitors aren’t permitted in Texas polling places after the agency announced plans to dispatch monitors ...

Three of the nine seats on the Texas Supreme Court are up for election with Republican incumbents battling to reclaim their seats. On Tuesday, 468 seats in the U.S. Congress (33 Senate seats and ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Executive Order No. GA-46 takes effect on Friday, requiring Texas public hospitals to collect information on and report healthcare costs of undocumented immigrants.

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By the 2022 gubernatorial election, Abbott’s margin of victory was cut to about 11 percentage points. The margin in presidential elections have been even closer. Mitt Romney carried Texas in ...

"Texans run Texas elections, and we will not be bullied by the Department of Justice," Paxton said in a statement. "The DOJ knows it has no authority to monitor Texas elections and backed down ...

A statewide canvass, in which the governor certifies ... Natalia Contreras covers election administration and voting access for Votebeat in partnership with the Texas Tribune.