Posted on · Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's top Tea Party group — Empower Texans — went hard after "squishy" Republicans who bucked the governor or strayed too far from the party orthodoxy. The effort mostly failed
Posted on · Polling places are a politics-free zone. Could that change with a Supreme Court case out of Minnesota? The court is hearing arguments in a key case on this Wednesday
Posted on · As House Speaker, Joe Straus regularly blocked social conservative priorities that he argued would hurt Texas’ economy. That put him at odds both with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick but many of his Republican House colleagues
Posted on · The split has already wrecked the chances of more than 100 bills as the legislative session nears its end.