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WEBThe Texas Tribune covers politics and a range of policy issues that affect all Texans. Those topics include public and higher education, health and human services, demographics and voting rights ...
Analysis: Texas’ population has changed faster than its political …
WEBDec 8, 2021 · Analysis: Texas’ population has changed much faster than its political maps. Texas’ population has grown 40% this century, and 91% of the new Texans are people of color. Federal judges now ...
Uvalde school shooting: A timeline of the massacre and police …
WEBMay 27, 2022 · What we know, minute by minute, about how the Uvalde shooting and police response unfolded. State officials provided a timeline of the massacre and have corrected crucial details amid public ...
The Uvalde school shooting victims: What we know - The Texas …
WEBMay 27, 2022 · 21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas. Loving children and beloved educators were killed at Robb Elementary School on May 24 in the ...
Ken Paxton wins third term as Texas attorney general - The Texas …
WEBKen Paxton wins third term as attorney general, beating Democrat Rochelle Garza. In a difficult cycle for Democrats, the race was widely seen as the most competitive statewide election because of ...
How new regulations impact abortion and birth control access in …
WEBOct 11, 2023 · A group of Texas women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions sued the state of Texas in 2023 seeking to clarify the law. The Texas Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit in 2024 ...
Guns in Texas - The Texas Tribune
WEBOct 30, 2023 · Deaths from firearms keep climbing in Texas, decades after lawmakers began weakening gun regulations. By Erin Douglas and Alex Ford May 10, 2023 . The rate of firearm-related deaths in Texas has ...
Greg Abbott reelected Texas governor, defeating Beto O’Rourke
WEBNov 9, 2022 · MCALLEN — Greg Abbott decisively won a third term as governor of Texas on Tuesday, defeating Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke after a tumultuous few years marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, a ...
Hispanics officially make up the biggest share of Texas’ population ...
WEBJun 21, 2023 · Hispanic Texans are expected to make up a flat-out majority of the state’s population in the decades to come, and most Texas children will soon be Hispanic. Recent census estimates showed that ...
Texas can’t secede from the U.S. Here’s why. - The Texas Tribune
WEBJun 20, 2022 · No, Texas can’t legally secede from the U.S., despite popular myth. The theme of independence has recurred throughout the history of Texas, which was a republic from 1836–45. But the Civil War ...