Special Election Set For Texas House Seat Vacated By Now-Congressman Jake Ellzey
The special election date to replace Ellzey in the Texas House is Tuesday, August 31.
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The special election date to replace Ellzey in the Texas House is Tuesday, August 31.
"Subjecting a child to genital mutilation through reassignment surgery creates a 'genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury to the child,'" Gov. Abbott said in a letter.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that he will convene a second special legislative session at 12:00 p.m. on August 7.
"Lockdowns are wrong during a pandemic." That's the word today from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaking during remarks to the Asian American Hotel Owners Association's National Convention In Dallas on Wednesday.
The temporary order by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone of El Paso is at least a short-term victory for the Biden administration which sued Texas over the executive order.
Dallas County Commissioner J.J. Koch (R-Pct. 2) was escorted out of Tuesday's Aug. 3 commissioner's meeting for not wearing a face mask.
Texas Senate and House Republican Caucuses held a joint press conference on special session agenda items on Tuesday, August 3 to demand Texas House Democrats get back to work in the state.
One Texas city is scrambling to get more COVID-19 shots in arms, dedicating personnel at sites across the city -- including vet clinics, churches, rec centers, construction sites, and homeless shelters.
According to federal authorities the month of July saw tens of thousands of migrants arrested while attempting to enter the United States from Mexico.
During a Texas Senate hearing on the future of college athletics in Texas on Monday, August 2, the Commissioner of the Big 12 Conference unloaded on UT and OU.
A group of Texas Republicans want to audit the 2020 election results in just the large, mostly Democratic counties across the state. If they get their way, they'll miss many of the real — but minor — errors in the state's vote count.
Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing "vote them out" Saturday from the steps of the Texas Capitol during a rally in support of Democratic state legislators who bolted for Washington.
Former Texas GOP Chair and retired Lt. Col. Allen West outlined his priorities amid his challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Gov. Abbott's order, issued Wednesday, prohibits anyone from providing ground transportation to migrants detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for illegally crossing the border.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said she was arrested on Thursday by Capitol Police during a protest on voting rights.
