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The “Texas Women’s Privacy Act” would also force transgender people into different prison facilities, echoing a similar effort from the Trump administration that was recently blocked by a federal ...
Senate Bill 7, officially called the Texas Women's Privacy Act, would require people to use restrooms based on birth sex in ...
Inside Texas Politics spoke to State Rep. Michelle Beckley, Dr. Carla Brailey and Mike Collier, who are all vying to unseat Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Texas lawmakers and the lieutenant governor pressed local officials to explain their handling of the catastrophic July 4 ...
More than 50 Democratic lawmakers from Texas fled the state for Illinois, New York and Massachusetts to block an effort by Republicans to redraw congressional districts. The plan, backed by President ...
Three Democrats are running for lieutenant governor: State Rep. Michelle Beckley (D-Carrollton), former Vice Chair of the Texas Democratic Party Carla Brailey, Ph.D., and Mike Collier, who was ...
The lieutenant governor is the second-highest job in Texas politics – and arguably the most influential, because that person decides which legislation lives and dies.
The lieutenant governor won his seat in 2014 by 20 percentage points. Collier is the closest a Democrat has come to defeating Patrick, who first ran for the Texas Senate in 2006.
Gov. Greg Abbott filed his lawsuit as other top Republicans raised the prospect of intensifying law enforcement actions ...