President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead his border security and deportation efforts is an ally of Gov. Greg Abbott and a self-described "fan" of the Republican governor who regularly praised Texas' border crackdown on Fox News.

The Texas Secretary of State's Office has several guidelines for how voted ballots should be stored after an election to ensure they are secured.

For many of the blue-collar Latino men in and around an Austin Home Depot on the day after the 2024 election, Donald Trump made sense.

The fate of the booming renewable energy industry in Texas during President-elect Donald Trump's second term depends largely on how his administration treats President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.

With Election Day in the past, the race for Texas House speaker is heating up as the Republican incumbent tries to hold onto the leadership role and a North Texas Republican tries to win it. Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont and Rep. David Cook of Mansfield are running for the post, as is Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos, a Richardson Democrat.

In the end, it wasn’t close at all. On election night, Texans handed sweeping victories to the Republican Party that controls the state, and in particular its ascendant MAGA faction. As Vice

Cruz retained his seat, beating back Colin Allred and keeping alive Texas’ streak of not electing a Democratic Senator in more than 30 years.

Every week, Eye on Politics breaks down some of the biggest political stories grabbing headlines in North Texas and beyond.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz locked in a third term in Congress Tuesday by defeating Democratic Rep. Colin Allred.

Ken Paxton asked a judge to order Mr. Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against Donald J. Trump, to preserve his records and avoid “obstruction of accountability.”

If Texas Democrats were looking for silver linings among the thunderhead clouds that rained down upon them Tuesday, here's one: The last time Donald Trump won the White House, they came out pretty well in the midterm election two years later. Everybody ...

Democrat Colin Allred leads incumbent Republican Ted Cruz in the race for U.S. Senate. Allred, a U.S. representative from Dallas, has 49.9% of the vote to Cruz’s 48.1% with 48% of the vote counted, according to The Associated Press.