
A Caucus, if You Can Keep It
How small must their influence grow before House Democrats break with their collaborationist tradition?
Since 1954
How small must their influence grow before House Democrats break with their collaborationist tradition?
Legislation to allow some forms of drug checking has reached the same Senate committee where a similar bill died last session—two years and at least 3,200 Texas overdose deaths ago.
Biennial promises of “relief” are just window dressing on a broken taxation system.
Republicans want to double down on a system that can keep Texans in jail for years without a trial, while attacking bail funds that try to help.
Public libraries are for the public—and that means access for all.
Expanding on last session's anti-DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.
The Texas GOP’s dominance of the 21st Century has been marked by entrenchment in the highest offices. Is that changing?
The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.
The governor crushed anti-voucher Republicans in the Texas House, but there are still plenty of party activists who are opposed.
"Somebody had to eat the first oyster." With that salty metaphor, Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock makes the argument that elected officials shouldn't be afraid to try new ideas—in this case, vouchers that would shift taxpayers' moneys from public to private schools.