Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune
Alexa Ura is an associate editor and reporter at The Texas Tribune.
Hundreds Of Mail-In Ballot Applications Are Being Rejected Under Texas’ New Voting Rules
Hundreds of Texans seeking to vote by mail in the upcoming March primary elections are seeing their applications for ballots rejected by local election...
First Part Of Texas’ 2020 Election Audit Reveals Few Issues, Echoes Findings From Review...
The Texas secretary of state’s office has released the first batch of results from its review into the 2020 general election, finding few issues...
Texas’ Renewed Voter Citizenship Review Is Still Flagging Citizens As “Possible Non-U.S. Citizens”
Texas’ last attempt to scour its voting rolls for noncitizens two years ago quickly devolved into a calamity.
The state flagged nearly 100,000 voters for...
U.S. Department Of Justice Sues Texas Over New Political Maps
The U.S. Department of Justice is throwing its weight into the legal fight over Texas’ newly drawn maps for Congress and the state House,...
Texas’ New House Map Challenged in State Court, Expanding Redistricting Fight
Opening a second front in widening legal wars over redistricting, a coalition of mostly Hispanic, Democratic members of the Texas House Wednesday filed suit...
Republicans Say Texas’ New Political Maps Are “Race Blind.” to Some Voters of Color,...
As they devised political maps to maximize their hold on power for another decade, Texas Republicans laid the foundation for a crucial argument they...
Texas Congressional Map Heads Into Last-minute Negotiations As Democrats Decry Shortage of Hispanic Representation
Though people of color drove nearly all of Texas’ population gains in the last decade, the proposed map gives white voters control of both...
With Surgical Precision, Republicans Draw Two Congressional Districts That Dilute Power of Hispanic and...
The intensity with which Texas Republicans are struggling against demographic tides as they redraw the state's congressional districts can best be seen in their...
Texas Appears to Be Paying a Secretive Republican Political Operative $120,000 Annually to Work...
A Republican redistricting operative whose clandestine work helped drag Wisconsin into a legal morass last decade appears to now be on the payroll of...
Texas Must Pay $6.8 Million in Legal Fees to Parties Who Challenged Voter Id...
Texas remains responsible for nearly $6.8 million in legal fees and costs owed to the collection of parties who sued over its voter ID...
