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In the shadow of Texas limits on voting rights and lessons about race in school, Juneteenth celebrates Black history, progress and families

Amid a rise in conservative efforts opposed to teaching the lingering impacts of slavery and racism, the descendants of formerly enslaved people are using the Juneteenth holiday to educate younger generations.

Uvalde was a mental health desert before a school shooting prompted Texas to respond with resources

After the May 24 school shooting, mental health help is now pouring into Uvalde, where a fourth of residents are uninsured and counseling options are few and far between.

โ€˜We will be reunited with them one dayโ€™: Uvalde worshippers pray for peace, healing and the souls of 21 lives lost

Residents of Uvalde, a deeply religious community, prayed, cried and embraced each other on the first Sunday since a gunman killed 21 people at an elementary school.

โ€˜This is not usโ€™: Tight-knit Uvalde, rooted in Texas history, navigates incalculable grief

Residents of this town, which is nicknamed โ€œthe Crossroads of America,โ€ grapple with the horror of losing 21 lives.

A GOP power grab shatters 30 years of political progress for Black voters in Galveston County

Republicans dismantled the only Galveston County commissioners precinct in which voters of color held political clout. Itโ€™s a major blow for Black and Hispanic voters who had been building political momentum.

The U.S. census estimates it missed more than a half-million Texans during 2020 count

Immigrants, people living in poverty and non-English speakers were among the most likely to be missed, yet the crucial count received lackluster promotion by Texas state government.

T-Squared: Jayme Lozano is joining us as a Lubbock-based regional reporter

She will cover the Panhandle and South Plains through Report for America. She previously reported for Texas Tech Public Media.

Analysis: The case for big ideas in Texas government

Texas political leaders usually settle for caution. The big stuff is risky, but itโ€™s also possible โ€” and even inspiring โ€” to see leaders ignoring the small stuff and aiming higher.

Analysis: Gerrymandering has left Texas voters with few options

Texans who donโ€™t vote in primaries and primary runoffs are missing a chance to choose who goes to Congress and the Texas Legislature. Thanks to the political maps drawn by lawmakers last year, only a handful of those contests will be competitive in November.

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Analysis: Texans without high-speed internet are getting closer, slowly

Like other states, Texas found out during the pandemic how critical high-speed broadband is for school, work and medicine. And the state is working to expand it โ€” but itโ€™s going to be at least a year before Texans start to see results.

Texas is quietly using redistricting lawsuits to launch a broader war against federal voting rights law

As Texas defends against accusations that its new political maps are discriminatory, itโ€™s laying the groundwork to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out longstanding Voting Rights Act protections.

Analysis: Rural Texas hospitals still searching for a remedy

The good news is that no rural hospitals in Texas have closed in the last two years. The bad news? Theyโ€™re still in crisis mode, and the state government is still struggling to find a remedy.

Federal judge says Waller County voting process did not discriminate against Black college students

A group of students at Prairie View A&M University sued the county, claiming it set up an election schedule in 2018 that offered students โ€” most of them Black โ€” fewer opportunities to vote early than the countyโ€™s white residents.

Analysis: A health care problem too big for the Texas Legislature

Texas, unlike all but 11 other states, hasnโ€™t expanded its Medicaid program. And it also hasnโ€™t addressed the problem thatโ€™s supposed to help solve: The stateโ€™s worst-in-the-nation ranking for people without health insurance.

Texasโ€™ child welfare agency ordered to investigate trans kidsโ€™ families has been in crisis for years

The Department of Family and Protective Services has been under federal court monitoring for over a decade for violating the civil rights of kids in foster care. Now, the short-staffed agency has to investigate parents who provide their children with gender-affirming care.

Republicans more than doubled turnout in the Rio Grande Valley compared with the last midterm primary

Democrats in the region still had higher turnout, but Republicans celebrated the narrowing of the gap. Despite the improvement, nearly 87% of registered voters in the Rio Grande Valley did not vote in the primary, similar to the rate in 2018.

Analysis: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and the power of Us vs. Them

A week into early voting in the Texas party primaries, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick launched his latest culture-war volley, an attack on college professors whose teachings about race donโ€™t match his notions about what they should be teaching.

Analysis: Hey, Texans, get out there and vote!

On this first day of early voting in the Democratic and Republican primaries, take a moment to think through the issues โ€” whether the candidates are talking about them or not โ€” before you cast your ballot.

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Federal judges wonโ€™t halt Texas primary in state Senate district being challenged for alleged discrimination

The redrawn state Senate District 10 splits Black and Hispanic voters in Tarrant County. A full trial on whether GOP lawmakers intentionally discriminated against voters of color is expected later this year.

Texas now has more jobs than it did before the pandemic hit

Job growth in the state, driven by population gains, has outpaced the rest of the country in recent months, according to recent federal data.

Analysis: Running a Texas election while voters are distracted โ€” by politics

With less than five weeks left in the primary election season, there is no shortage of political issues to debate. But most of the political conversation isnโ€™t about the election.

Gov. Greg Abbott taps into parent anger to fuel reelection campaign

Abbott promises a โ€œparental bill of rightsโ€ amendment to the Texas Constitution. Current education code already provides an array of parent protections when it comes to schools.

โ€œThey are us. Thereโ€™s no distinctionโ€: Terror of synagogue standoff is no isolated incident to Texas Jewish leaders

News of Congregation Beth Israel hostages' safe escape is met with intense relief, but communities feel pain and fear over the latest in a series of antisemitic attacks and incidents in Texas and beyond.

Analysis: Texas enters 2022 with a bang โ€” and some whimpering

The new year comes with a new election โ€” and with familiar challenges to the way Texans vote and have their votes counted.

Analysis: The Texas storms โ€” actual and political โ€” of 2021

Here are a dozen of my columns from 2021: highlights on the winter storm, redistricting, the stateโ€™s finances and on issues that could figure into this next round of elections.

2021 Texas politics in photos: An insurrection, legislative battles and emerging campaigns

Texas politics in 2021 were marked by a violent insurrection at the nationโ€™s Capitol and state legislative fights over abortion, voting rights and redistricting. Our photojournalists were there every step of the way.

Unhappy holidays: Texas endures another COVID Christmas

After nearly two years of navigating life during a pandemic, many Texans are now scrambling for COVID tests, delaying plans and worrying about relatives who have been exposed to the virus.

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Opportunity was snatched away from Dallas County Latino communities when Texas Republicans redrew congressional maps

Dallas-area Latinos hoped their growing numbers would finally translate into political clout this year through the creation of a new congressional district anchored by their communities. Instead, their neighborhoods were splintered between numerous white-majority districts.

Analysis: From homegrown culture warriors to tomorrowโ€™s Texas leaders

Republicans in Austin have been after local governments for years, pushing aside local laws and rules on a long list of issues where local and state powers overlap. Now they're recruiting fellow Republicans for local offices, to try to change things at the ground level.

Analysis: Texasโ€™ population has changed much faster than its political maps

Texasโ€™ population has grown 40% this century, and 91% of the new Texans are people of color. Federal judges now have to decide whether those monumental changes are reflected in the stateโ€™s political maps.

U.S. Department of Justice sues Texas over new political maps

Texas lawmakers illegally discriminated against voters of color by drawing new political districts that give white voters more political power despite rapid growth of Hispanic and Black populations, the department claims in its lawsuit.

Congressional gerrymandering by Texas Republicans cut out the heart of Houstonโ€™s Asian community

Asian and Pacific Islander populations surged in Texas over the past decade, but their political power is weakened under new congressional maps. A northwest Houston neighborhood offers a case study in how that was done.

Texas Democrats rely on voters of color to be competitive. So why are their top statewide candidates mostly white?

The GOP slate for statewide office includes two high-profile Latinos and two Black candidates who have previously held state or federal office. Republicans are making a play to be more competitive with voters of color as the stateโ€™s electorate grows more diverse.

Among El Pasoans, Beto Oโ€™Rourkeโ€™s gubernatorial run excites loyal fans and revives longtime grudges

El Pasoans who have followed Oโ€™Rourkeโ€™s political career are excited about his run for governor. But his critics still remember his support of a development plan that could have displaced Mexican American residents from one of the cityโ€™s oldest barrios.

Texans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz join GOP senators to block voting rights bill that would have protected voters of color

In a final push to secure federal voting rights legislation this year, congressional Democrats failed to secure the necessary votes to avoid a GOP filibuster on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Texasโ€™ new House map challenged in state court, expanding redistricting fight

The Mexican American Legislative Caucus is arguing that the new state House map violates the Texas Constitution. The lawsuit follows two legal challenges to the stateโ€™s new maps previously filed in federal court.

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Analysis: Texas legislators arenโ€™t ready to take self-interest out of redistricting

In Texas, the Legislature draws political maps โ€” with results that predictably favor the party in power. Do independent commissions do any better?

Central Texas faith leaders and politicians rebuke antisemitic incidents after fire outside Austin synagogue

Austin fire officials said theyโ€™re investigating a Sunday incident that caused about $25,000 in damage as a potential arson.

Analysis: With grades like these for political maps, Texas wonโ€™t be making the honor roll

The new political maps drawn by Texas Republicans have run into some criticism from academics studying gerrymandering. That puts the Texans in the same boat with Illinois Democrats.

Restrictions on transgender student athletesโ€™ participation in school sports signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott

House Bill 25 will require student athletes who compete in interscholastic competition to play on sports teams that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate at or near their time of birth.

Gov. Greg Abbott signs off on Texasโ€™ new political maps, which protect GOP majorities while diluting voices of voters of color

Texas lawmakers drew new maps for the state House and Senate, congressional delegation and State Board of Education. Hereโ€™s what Texans should know about the 2021 redistricting outcomes.

Texas has new political maps. See which districts your home is in.

Texas lawmakers have redrawn political maps for the stateโ€™s congressional, House, Senate and Board of Education districts. Search your address to see how the new districts will affect your community.

Analysis: Texas legislators set the table for the 2022 elections

The controversial issues youโ€™ve heard Texas lawmakers debate for most of the year arenโ€™t going away; many of them will be argued all over again during the 2022 elections.

Republicans say Texasโ€™ new political maps are โ€œrace blind.โ€ To some voters of color, that translates as political invisibility.

With partisan fervor, Republicans drew new maps for Congress and the Legislature that dilute the power of voters of color. Now the lawsuits begin, as groups that feel marginalized battle for representation in the halls of power.

Five takeaways from Texasโ€™ third special legislative session

Gov. Greg Abbottโ€™s office says thereโ€™s no plan for a fourth special session at this time. If this was the final special session of the year, what did we learn from it?

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Texas Republicans send Gov. Greg Abbott a new congressional map that protects GOP power, reduces influence of voters of color

After a few last-minute alterations, the state's new congressional districts are drawn and await the scrutiny of federal courts. Already, one lawsuit has been filed claiming the new maps intentionally discriminate against Latino voters.

First lawsuit filed challenging new Texas political maps as intentionally discriminatory

Before theyโ€™re even signed into law, the stateโ€™s new maps for congressional and statehouse districts have been challenged in federal court by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Analysis: An election slogan you wonโ€™t hear in Texas in 2022

โ€œTurn Texas Blueโ€ was the Democratic rally cry in the 2020 elections. It didnโ€™t happen, and with the maps the Texas Legislature is drawing, itโ€™s not in the cards for 2022, either.

Lawmakers send to Gov. Greg Abbott new political maps that would further solidify the GOPโ€™s grip on the Texas Legislature

The redistricting plans for the House, Senate and State Board of Education were approved Friday.

With surgical precision, Republicans draw two congressional districts that dilute power of Hispanic and Asian voters

The GOP is losing its hold on suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth as they grow more diverse. Two new districts show how far the party is reaching to entrench rural, white electoral power.

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