According to an quarterly review, Texas residents are nixing more deals because of immigration laws. According to a study of Texas real estate agents released last week by the business relationship Texas REALTORS, over a third of global customers who opted not to purchase a house in Texas between April 2025 and March 2026 did
A visiting district court judge has declined to change the orders appointing a Republican candidate to provide as an interim state prosecutor for the majority of 2026 due to the legal complexities looming over Fort Bend County brought on by the criminal conviction of its chief executive. After being charged with felony money laundering and
Last year, tractors broke ground in Big Bend National Park as a result of public outcry against illegal immigration from the United States. Last fall, then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem issued an order waiving all regulatory restrictions in order to drive through the development of border restrictions in the Big Bend Sector. Rodney Scott,
After county commissioners redrew boundaries once more in June 2026, months after the state’s primary elections, and a new group of plaintiffs are now asking for an emergency ruling from the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX ), the county is once more facing legal challenges regarding redistricting. The adoption of the 2021 boundaries for Galveston
Abbott stated in a press conference held on Monday that the TCC’s purpose is to “ensure enduring progress toward our goal of ranking number one in America for educating our children.” × Java is required for this section. You must have Javascript in order to learn advanced content. Kindly make it available in your browser’s
Last week, a federal judge in Texas sided with the State of Texas and a group of gun manufacturers in opposing the federal government by reining in the enforcement of the National Firearms Act ( NFA ). Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas enjoined the federal
Collage provided by Alex Bandoni/ProPublica. Keko-ka/Getty Images as cause images. I submit numerous Freedom of Information Act calls. In order to distribute financial revelations in searchable databases, I have tracked hundreds of national political appointees and have been requesting staff lists from both Trump administrations. The Office of Personnel Management, which has a wealth of
Robert Howden, the newly appointed Secretary of State, joined his predecessor, SOS Jane Nelson, in claiming that the Texas Legislature must be the first to take action in the case of closing party primaries, which his office and the Republican Party of Texas ( RPT ) are embroiled in a lawsuit. Howden stated in a
A request for a temporary restraining order ( TRO ) from a Harris County court was turned down, preventing the enforcement of a Texas law that mandated the display of donated Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Three Houston-area mothers who had filed a lawsuit against Senate Bill ( SB ) 10’s validity on the
President Donald Trump is once again taking aim at birthright citizenship and cracking down on “birth tourism” in more narrow executive orders after his initial one was blocked by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The first in his set of two related executive orders on Thursday identified which children may not be
The Democratic nominee in Texas’ 2026 U.S. Senate race, state Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin), launched a campaign tour in Arlington on Wednesday night to publicize an agenda aimed at lowering the cost of living. Dubbed the “New American Dream,” it resembled the platform his Republican rival, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, announced nearby the night
A Harris County court is set to hear a lawsuit filed by a group of Houston-area mothers challenging a new statute requiring the display of donated copies of the Ten Commandments in public schools under the state’s religious freedom law, instead of under federal law as in previous suits. Senate Bill (SB) 10, which requires