Former GOP Texas Supreme Court justices back Democrat for attorney general
Two former Texas Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican governors are endorsing Democratic attorney general nominee Nathan Johnson over their party’s pick, Mayes Middleton. The race to replace outgoing Attorney General Ken Paxton as Texas’ top lawyer is, like many races this cycle, running tighter than usual. While Republicans have held the seat since John Cornyn was elected in 1998, several polls […]
Broadband grants paused as critics allege favoritism toward Elon Musk’s Starlink
LUBBOCK — The Texas Broadband Development Office placed a temporary hold Tuesday on all disbursements of billions of dollars in federal funds related to the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, or BEAD. Sen. Nathan Johnson, a Dallas Democrat running for Texas Attorney General, claimed in a campaign statement that the award process could be corruption […]
Fracas over Tarrant County voting sites highlights public distrust over how elections are run
Tuesday’s chaotic public meeting over the number of voting sites in Tarrant County for the upcoming November election highlighted public distrust in election administration decisions and the people making them in the state’s most populous purple county, experts and voting rights advocates said. Democratic lawmakers, state Rep. Vikki Goodwin, who is running for lieutenant governor, and […]
Tarrant County delays vote on polling sites for November election
Tarrant County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to delay approving polling sites for the November midterm election, after agreeing that the lists proposed by the county elections administrator included too few locations. Clint Ludwig, the administrator who oversees the county’s elections, proposed cutting the number of Election Day polling sites by 45% from the total used for the […]
Why lawmakers are concerned about where billions in broadband funding is going
LUBBOCK — When Texas was awarded more than $3 billion to expand broadband services to every corner of the Lone Star state, broadband advocates celebrated. Fast-forward four years, and that same pool of money has become the subject of tense speculation. Lawmakers have lobbed allegations of favoritism to companies — namely Elon Musk’s Starlink — […]
Texas Democrats welcome Bernie Sanders and plunge into kitchen-table politics
CORPUS CHRISTI — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday closed the Texas Democratic Convention with an anti-oligarchical speech that bookended two days of state Democrats railing against Republican state leadership and corporate interests that they say are making life untenable for working class Texans. Read the full article here https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/27/texas-democratic-convention-affordability-corruption-bernie-sanders/