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Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said in a new interview that he is considering running for Governor of Texas in 2022. Per Fox News, O’Rourke told Texas radio station KLAQ that he is “going to think about” launching a gubernatorial campaign next year. O’Rourke accused the current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, of […]

President Donald Trump will not attend his successor Joe Biden’s inauguration, but some of his closest allies in the U.S. Congress reportedly will. Citing sources briefed on the matter, KXAN reported on Friday that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will attend the ceremony. Sen John Cornyn, Cruz’s fellow Texan, seemingly confirmed the reporting via […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at the Texas Republican Party after it made an apparent threat to secede after losing a key court battle that could have overturned the outcome of the presidential election. As The Inquisitr reported, the state GOP issued a statement after the Supreme Court denied an attempt to overturn the election. The […]

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit by the state of Texas that sought to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In response, the Texas Republican Party called for secession. In a statement published on texasgop.org, chairman Allen West said that the Supreme Court “has decreed that a state […]

Jeb Bush — the former two-term governor of Florida and younger brother of former President George W. Bush — has come out strongly against a Texas suit aiming to invalidate the voting results in multiple key battleground states. The longtime Republican voiced his disapproval of the effort via Twitter on Thursday night, asserting that the […]

Longtime Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsburg told CNN Wednesday that the Supreme Court will not even take up the voter fraud lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Per Raw Story, anchor Jim Sciutto asked Ginsburg if there is any legal basis for Paxton’s arguments, reminding his viewers that each state, and not the […]

Eliazar Cisneros reportedly took to Facebook this weekend to brag about taking part in a convoy of trucks waving Donald Trump flags that confronted a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway, forcing it to skip a planned stop and leading to a collision. It was not the first controversial incident for the man, […]

The FBI is reportedly investigating a group of pickup trucks and other vehicles flying President Donald Trump flags that surrounded a Joe Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway, forcing the Democratic side to cancel a planned appearance. As the New York Post reported, the high-speed confrontation that took place on Friday was caught on […]

Multiple vessels sank during a Trump boat parade in Texas on Saturday, KEYE-TV reported. There do not appear to have been any injuries. Parades of boaters bearing Trump flags and other regalia have been a thing this summer, and in keeping with that theme, multiple vessels convened on Lake Travis, northwest of Austin. The lake […]

Papers are reportedly being burned in open containers outside of the Chinese consulate in Houston, as tensions between China and the United States continue to rise. According to Bloomberg, the consulate had recently been ordered to close by the U.S. government after there had been reports that officials from the Middle Kingdom were using the […]

Texas could be ready to turn blue, a new poll shows. A new poll from the Lonestar State shows Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump by a five-point margin, pushed largely by Trump’s sinking approval on handling of the coronavirus. The Dallas Morning News/University of Texas at Tyler poll showed that the former vice president […]

A CBS News poll released on Sunday found that President Donald Trump is trailing the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden in Florida, also establishing that the two candidates are virtually tied in Texas and Arizona. The poll found that Biden has a six-point advantage over Trump in Florida, while Trump is ahead of […]

A powerful Texas Republican called Gov. Greg Abbott last month with a request for the National Guard being dispatched during statewide protests: “shoot to kill” anyone rioting. As the Texas Tribune reported, “conservative power broker” Steve Hotze called Abbott’s office and left the request in a voicemail to his chief of staff, Luis Saenz. In […]

A new poll out of Texas shows that it could be a fierce battle this fall as both President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden fight to win the state in the 2020 presidential election. Trump won the state in 2016, but the latest numbers suggest that those 38 electoral votes may not […]

According to a Fox News poll released on Thursday, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump are statistically tied in the state of Texas. The poll — which has a margin of error of three percentage points — found that 45 percent of Texas voters would vote for Biden if […]

Some Texas Republicans are concerned that the Lone Star State could turn blue in November, The Hill reported on Saturday. Recent polling suggests that President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are virtually tied in Texas, but the presidential race is not the only contest where that is the case. Republican Sen. John […]

Donald Trump’s campaign announced its first rally since the coronavirus pandemic led many states to issue stay-at-home orders, and it will be held on Friday, June 19, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The location, as well as the date, caught the attention of many, including Texas Rep. Al Green, who took to Twitter to slam the whole […]

The death of Javier Ambler has received national attention this week, per People. On March 28, 2019, in Texas, the 40-year-old was involved in a routine traffic stop for failing to dim his lights for oncoming traffic. The stop turned into a 22-minute car chase, which was followed by Ambler being tased four times by […]

DeAndre Arnold and Kaden Bradford are African American teenagers from Texas who refused to cut their dreadlocks, despite pressures from their school. They were both suspended as a result. Now their families are filing a lawsuit against the Barbers Hill Independent School District as well as the superintendent and deputy superintendent of the district, according […]

Three top Texas Republicans who have been leading the charge against expanding mail-in voting in the state have all voted by mail at least once in past elections, a new report finds. As The Texas Tribune reported, three of the state’s top GOP officials have been vocally opposed to expanding this form of voting, even […]

On Friday night, 29-year-old Alex Barron was arrested after allegedly making a threat on social media alluding to a possible attack at a Walmart in Horizon City, Texas, says Associated Press. According to the article, Barron shared a photograph of a weapon on a social media page and used the hashtags “watchoutwalmartimcoming” and “droplikeflys.” The […]

A Southwest Airlines jet struck and killed a person who had managed to make their way onto a runway at Austin, Texas’ Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, CNN reports. At about 8:12 p.m. local time on Thursday night, Southwest Airlines Flight 1392 had just landed on runway 17-R when the pilot noticed a person on the ground. […]

A new Dallas Morning News/University of Texas at Tyler poll released on Sunday shows President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden tied in the Lone Star State’s presidential race. Both Trump and Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, are polling at 43 percent. Nine percent of respondents said they were undecided, and […]

Joe Biden may be creating a tight race in November in an unlikely state. New polling shows that the former vice president is holding a slim lead over Donald Trump in the traditionally red state of Texas, an outcome that could create a nearly impossible path for victory for the president. As The Hill noted, […]

Guillermo “Memo” Garcia has died. Garcia was the last victim of the El Paso, Texas Walmart shooting still alive, having been hospitalized for nearly nine months. Garcia, 36, died Sunday evening, according to Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso. He had been in the hospital’s care since August 3, when a gunman opened fire […]

According to a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll released on Saturday, former Vice President Joe Biden trails President Donald Trump by five points in the Lone Star State. Voters appear to be deeply divided along party lines, with the vast majority of respondents saying they will back their party’s nominee in November. Independent voters seem […]

Prominent media figure and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested on Tuesday morning for driving while intoxicated, per The Daily Beast. According to the Travis County sheriff’s office, he was booked shortly after midnight. Travis County is located in Austin, Texas, which is where Jones is based. Law enforcement added that Jones was arrested on […]

A Texas man who was caught on video licking a tub of ice cream and then putting it back on store shelves has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and will have to pay restitution, CNN reports. For a few weeks in the summer of 2019, one of many social media “challenges” going around […]

After the first week of play in the new XFL, Houston Roughnecks quarterback P.J. Walker was one of only three to record a passer rating of more than 100. Three weeks into the season, and Walker has firmly set himself as the league’s top MVP candidate, as the only passer to rate over 100 in […]

No Democrat has won the delegate-rich state of Texas in a presidential election since 1976, with Republicans winning the Lone Star State in the last 10 elections straight — and 11 of the last 12. But according to a new poll released Friday, one Democrat of the current top six in the race now leads […]

A mom named Molly Wooden from Fort Hood, Texas, was impressed by the parenting style of another mother named Nicki Quinn, whom she came across while shopping at a Hobby Lobby. Wooden visited the bathroom at the store with her own 4-year-old when she came across Quinn struggling to get her son to behave. She […]

Texas just became the latest state to join the growing fight against vape giant Juul by conducting an investigation into the company and their marketing. The inquiry comes after an increased number of illnesses were purportedly linked to vaping in the past year and a reported increase in underage vaping. The state’s investigation will help […]

With around 27 percent precincts reporting, multiple publications, news networks, and media outlets have declared Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont the winner of the 2020 Nevada Democratic caucuses, according to Politico. Sanders is in first place with 46.6 percent of the vote. Former Vice President Joe Biden is in a distant second with 22.8 percent. […]

A new poll appears to indicate trouble for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. In the Republican stronghold of Texas, where no Democrat has won the state’s 38 electoral votes since 1976, the poll shows Trump falling to win more than 50 percent support in one-on-one matchups with any of the current top six […]

A Texas teenager bought 170 flowers to give to the girls at his school so that no one would be left out on Valentine’s Day, CNN reports. Valentine’s Day can be a fraught day for high school students. Gone are the days in elementary school where each student gave everyone in their class paper valentines. […]

After winning the popular vote in the controversial Iowa caucuses plagued by multiple scandals, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont won the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary. He is now surging in both national and state polls, solidifying his front-runner position. Sanders has surged in the Lone Star State as well, according to the latest […]

A Texas teenager who is growing out his hair for his younger sister, who is losing her own locks to chemotherapy, has chosen to withdraw from school rather than accede to the school’s demands to cut it, CNN reports. Newt Johnson, 16, is the older brother and best friend of 12-year-old Maggie Johnson, who has […]

Mayra Ospina, a 23-year-old woman from Texas, was declared brain dead on Tuesday, one day after she was hit by a drunk driver. According to KHOU, the incidents leading to Mayra’s death happened Monday morning. Mayra and her boyfriend Luis Ramirez were reportedly traveling in their car when they saw another vehicle with a group […]

Megalomedia — the production company behind the hit TLC docu-series My 600-LB Life — has responded to a lawsuit filed by the family of the late James “L.B.” Bonner, according to a report from Starcasm. Following the initial filing of the suit, Megalomedia did not publicly respond. Their official statement acknowledges the tragic death of […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Friday that his state will no longer welcome refugees, at least in 2020, citing his legal authority to do so based on an executive order recently signed by President Donald Trump which allows governors to make such decisions. According to The Hill, Abbott argued that Texas has already accepted […]

Jack Wilson, the volunteer security member, former reserve deputy sheriff, and firearms instructor who killed the gunman that opened fire in a Texas church Sunday, released a statement about his actions on Facebook and thanked those who have sent him prayers, CNN reports. “The events at West Freeway Church of Christ put me in a […]

In a now-deleted tweet, Texas Democrat Justin Lecea delivered some harsh words about former President Barack Obama for his work on the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, according to Newsweek. “I just want you to think about all the people who have and will die because Obamacare is pointless and your entire presidency […]

President Donald Trump‘s cornerstone campaign promise during the 2016 election — constructing a new wall on the southern U.S. border — hit another snag on Tuesday as a federal judge in Texas blocked the president from using billions in Pentagon funding to build portions of the structure. According to KSWB-TV, Judge David Briones of the […]

The decomposed body of a Navy veteran was found in his Texas apartment during a routine maintenance visit, and authorities believe the man had been dead for at least three years, NBC News reports. Meanwhile, his mother says that she’d been trying for years to get the police to take her concerns about her son’s […]

Previously, the Republican Party of Texas sent emails to voters urging them to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The emails reportedly warned that the president could lose the 2020 election without support from the southern U.S. state amid fears of a reported Texas demographic shift from Republican to Democrat. Despite these fears, […]

A Texas family has promised to go to battle with their Homeowners Association (HOA) over their Christmas decorations, which they were told to take down because the neighborhood-management group said it’s “too soon.” As Yahoo! Lifestyle reports, San Antonio doesn’t get much snow, but that doesn’t stop the Simonis family from enjoying the winter holiday. […]

While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tends to proceedings taking place involving an official impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the top-ranking Democrat told a crowd on Saturday of another plan Democrats have for 2020 — turning Texas blue. According to The Hill, while speaking at Tribune […]

Following recent mass shootings throughout the United States that have claimed dozens of lives, a growing number of voters say that the most important issue facing the United States is gun violence, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll published Tuesday by The Hill. According to the poll, 27 percent of voters said that gun violence […]

The Inquisitr reported that the suspect who opened fire in numerous locations across Odessa, Texas, in a seemingly random attack has been identified by several news outlets as Seth Ator, a 36-year-old white male. Officials know that Ator used an assault rifle-type of weapon for his attack, although they don’t yet know a motive. Regardless, […]

A white male identified as Seth Ator went on a shooting spree Saturday in Odessa, Texas which left seven victims and the shooter dead. Per CNN, 22 people were injured by the rampage, in which the shooter opened fire down roads and the highway from his vehicle. Per USA Today, many are calling for tightened […]