“The federal government is out of control and does not represent the values of Texans. That is why I am committing to file legislation this session that will allow a referendum to give Texans a MORE
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to intervene in a long-shot lawsuit by the state of Texas filed at the U.S. Supreme Court trying to throw out the voting results in four states MORE
Oath Keepers has made inroads across the country with thousands of law enforcement officers, soldiers and veterans. Still, it’s still not common for elected officials to openly identify as members, said Sam Jackson, a University of MORE
“Their failure to abide by the rule of law casts a dark shadow of doubt over the outcome of the entire election,” Paxton said in a statement. “We now ask that the Supreme Court step MORE
The Texas Supreme Court denied an effort by Republicans to throw out more than 120,000 votes that had already been cast at drive-through locations in Harris County, leaving Republicans’ only remaining option at the federal MORE
While family members played cards, a 3 year-old boy “somehow” got his hands on a pistol that fell out of a relative’s pocket and fatally shot himself Saturday afternoon during his birthday party, Texas police MORE
Just before midnight Monday Texas time, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a district judge’s preliminary injunction against Abbott’s October 1 directive. “One strains to see how it burdens MORE
A lawsuit filed last week in Galveston county district court on behalf of Donald Neely, 44, alleged the officers’ conduct was “extreme and outrageous”, both physically injuring Neely and causing him emotional distress, news outlets MORE
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation Oct. 1, limiting where eligible voters can drop off their marked mail-in ballots. Beginning on Oct. 2, voters must deliver their mail ballots to a single early voting clerk’s office MORE
Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody indicted in Javier Ambler case Statesman: A Williamson County grand jury has indicted Sheriff Robert Chody on an evidence tampering charge in the destruction of reality TV show footage that MORE
The sheriff’s department in Austin, Texas, said five boats sank during a boat parade in support of President Trump on Lake Travis on Saturday afternoon. The Travis County Sheriff’s Office said they responded to a MORE
“We responded to multiple calls of boats in distress, several of them sank,” but there are no reports of fatalities or injuries and investigators have not determined how many boats sank on the lake near MORE
The family of Sergeant Elder Fernandes was told that the Fort Hood soldier’s body had been found about 25 miles from Fort Hood, hanging from a tree late Tuesday night. Elder Fernandes was the second MORE
Hurricane Laura has hit Category 3 strength over the Gulf of Mexico, hours before it is expected to strike Louisiana and southeastern Texas with what forecasters fear will be ruinous flooding and wind damage — even MORE
Following 46 cases of bleach ingestions in the North Texas Poison Center region since the start of August, experts are again warning people that drinking the chemical won’t prevent COVID-19. The organization pointed to “misleading MORE
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a plan that would permanently block cities from raising property taxes if local governments pass measures that defund local law enforcement agencies. Abbott and other Republican leaders in Texas pointed MORE
Texas: 3-week-old boy found dead in bucket of tar True Crime Daily: WFAA: According to arrest warrants, the Grabowskis told “numerous lies” to detectives. MyTexasDaily.com reports that according to investigators, 42-year-old Roland Grabowski and MORE
FREEPORT, Texas — The family of a Texas man is outraged after a FedEx driver was captured on video on Saturday refusing to help after the man fell outside his front door. A Ring doorbell MORE
The Texas Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision delivered Monday rejected the state Republican Party’s appeal to force an in-person convention in Houston after city officials cancelled the event due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The MORE
When asked about the safety of students returning to the classrooms, Senator John Cornyn told a local affiliate in Texas, “We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it to others.” According MORE
First we hear Republicans say, ‘All Lives Matter’ because they cannot bring themselves to say, ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Then we hear Republicans say that ‘all life is sacred’ But, that only applies to fetuses and MORE
Blanco County landowners sue Kinder Morgan over contaminated water Houston Chronicle: The pipeline company Kinder Morgan violated the Safe Drinking Water Act when it spilled tens of thousands of gallons of drilling fluid into Blanco MORE
The original article appeared in the Houston Chronicle. But because of the paywall, News Views will use Politicususa as our source for this discussion. Just days after Donald Trump admitted that he told his staff to slow MORE
Despite the current rise in COVID-19 cases in Texas, the Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath said in a Thursday statement that returning to school in the fall would be “safe. Texas plans to send children MORE
Complaint filed over Ken Paxton’s tactics to limit mail-in voting Paxton said eligibility for absentee voting has not been expanded. A state judge’s order says otherwise. Source: Two men have accused Texas AG Ken Paxton MORE