Ahead of the U.S. Senate choosing its new majority leader, several Republican and advocacy groups in Texas issued statements ...

If those results hold, the GOP will control 88 of 150 seats in the lower chamber when the Legislature reconvenes in January.

In his 2016 race against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump lost most of the counties along the Rio Grande by double digits. That ...

With their success at the polls on Tuesday, Texas Republicans are poised to run the table in the Legislature. But internal fights are probably ahead.

The former president captured 55% of Latino voters in the state, according to exit polls. He also won 14 out of the 18 ...

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Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's success was rooted in rural Texas from the Panhandle to the High Plains where he ...

(Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune, Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune) Sign up for the We the Texans ... If those results hold, the GOP will control 87 of 150 seats in the lower chamber when the ...

Republican judges won all but one of the contested races. (Marjorie Kamys Cotera For The Texas Tribune, Marjorie Kamys Cotera For The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s ...

Trump soundly defeated Harris in 12 of 14 Texas counties touching the border. Concerns over immigration only partly explain it.

they’d show they were making progress in turning Texas into the nation’s largest swing state. Instead, the GOP seemed to erase any sign of progress its opponents had been making in recent ...