Alex Samuels/Texas Tribune
Alex Samuels is a newsletters fellow for The Texas Tribune and a journalism senior at The University of Texas at Austin. Alex has worked for USA Today College since her sophomore year and has been a collegiate correspondent and their first-ever breaking news correspondent. She also worked as an editorial intern for the Daily Dot where she covered politics, race, and social issues.
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The number of voters who cast ballots in the Texas early voting period this year has now surpassed the total number of people who voted in all of 2016. -
After facing intense criticism for suggesting on Fox News last month that he’d rather perish from the new coronavirus than see instability in the state... -
HOUSTON — An audible groan erupted in the lounge area of Houston’s Gulf Coast Distillers in late October when high-profile Trump campaign operative Mica... -
President Donald Trump will be in Austin on Wednesday for a tour of a new Apple manufacturing plant. Trump has had six public visits to Texas this year ... -
Texas voters approved nine amendments to the state’s Constitution on Tuesday. Only 12% of registered voters actually cast ballots — a higher percentage... -
Two usual political allies — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and the National Rifle Association — traded rhetorical blows Friday after Patrick continued to... -
After the second Texas mass shooting in a month, Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Monday night that "we're working on a legislative package right now" and that ... -
Beginning in June, thousands of voters across the country saw a fundraising plea in the form of a Facebook ad from the president’s official social media... -
Julián Castro , a Democratic candidate for president, plans to release a television ad Wednesday on Fox News connecting President Donald Trump to a... -
U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe , a Heath Republican, will remain in Congress instead of replacing Dan Coats as director of national intelligence, President...
