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Texas school board elections tend to see more candidates file per seat in odd-numbered years than in even-numbered years. Between 2018 and 2023, odd-numbered election years have averaged 2.08 candidates per seat, while even-numbered election years have averaged 1.78 candidates per seat. The highest average number of candidates per seat…

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Here’s a look at Senate members, ranked from most conservative to most liberal, based on votes cast during the 2023 regular session.

An economics professor at Middlebury College and her undergrad research assistants have been tracking access to abortion care since 2009. These maps show the dramatic changes in the past decade.

In the summer of 2021, a woman seeking an abortion came to the Texas clinic where I worked as a physician. She’d been raped and was 15 weeks pregnant. I was the first medical provider she had seen since being assaulted. She told me she hadn’t gone to the emergency…

Name-calling. Mean tweets. A governor's quick-draw veto pen.

Paxton worked to connect Kenny Hansmire with state comptroller, who oversees millions in opioid settlement money

AUSTIN, Texas — The rules for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s historic impeachment trial remained unclear late Tuesday as senators spent much of the day behind closed doors.

WASHINGTON — Two Texas women whose doctors refused to perform legal and medically urgent abortions met Tuesday with first lady Jill Biden, recounting their ordeals as the White House pressures Congress to codify rights the Supreme Court erased nearly a year ago.