Texas Legislature

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Camp Mystic leaders would be invited to testify before the committees, as part of what Speaker Dustin Burrows said would be a "comprehensive and thorough review."

Saturday's decisions signal a deescalating intraparty tension that heightened at the start of the year.

Members of the University Democrats said the new state law disrupts their ability to invite guest speakers and volunteer voter registrars to campus.

The Texas GOP will vote Saturday to possibly bar some state legislators from running in the 2026 primary, despite repeated Texas Supreme Court rulings saying they cannot.

The latest calls to stave off the politically charged execution come after a summer where GOP leaders asked the state courts to kick Democrats out of office and throw Beto O'Rourke in jail.

On the first day of a two-week trial, the plaintiffs' lawyers honed in on who drew the new map and whether race was a factor.

Kansas Republican lawmakers are circulating a petition for a special session to redistrict. The goal is to defeat the state's only Democrat in Congress.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took action on 14 bills Wednesday, signing all but one into law. Among those signed were measures aimed at increasing access to ivermectin and allowing private citizens to sue out-of-state abortion pill prescribers.

A 2024 change in the party's censure policy has had a big impact.

The committees were made to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and come as university faculty have come under online scrutiny.