Professors Behind Conservative-Backed “Liberty Institute” Say UT Has Strayed From Plan
University of Texas at Austin finance professor Richard Lowery was emailing with a colleague in London last November when he was asked if it...
John Cornyn Says Bipartisan Gun Legislation Won’t Include Weapons Bans Or Expanding Background Checks
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, the lead GOP negotiator in the Senate’s efforts to pass bipartisan gun safety legislation, is managing expectations over...
Texas Politicians Search For Solutions After Another Mass Shooting. Experts Say We’ve Already Found...
A fruitless and predictable myopia tends to take over political discussion after gun-spawned tragedies like the massacre in Uvalde.
Already deeply entrenched in their positions,...
Ted Cruz Criticizes Abbott For Canceling NRA Convention Participation
After the mass shooting in Uvalde, many republicans backed down from attending the annual NRA convention in Houston that happened just a few days...
Gov. Greg Abbott Instructs School Safety Officials To Conduct “Unannounced, Random Intruder” Audits Of...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday instructed state school security and education officials to start conducting “in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits on school districts”...
Gov. Greg Abbott Asks For Legislative Recommendations In Response To Uvalde Shooting
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday called on the Texas Legislature to form special committees to make legislative recommendations in response to the Uvalde school...
Texas Senate Democrats Call For Special Session To Raise The Age To Purchase Guns,...
The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus is urging Gov. Greg Abbott to call an emergency special legislative session to consider a variety of gun restrictions...
Greg Abbott Cancels In-Person NRA Convention Appearance In Wake Of Uvalde Mass Shooting
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is backing out of a scheduled in-person appearance at the National Rifle Association’s convention in Houston on Friday and will...
Texas GOP Primary Runoff Results Show Most Legislative Incumbents Prevailing, Bucking past Trends
Three of the four Republican state representatives forced into primary runoffs prevailed on Tuesday, bucking a statewide trend over the last decade that favored...
Henry Cuellar Declares Victory, but Jessica Cisneros Won’t Concede in Nail-biter Runoff for South...
LAREDO —U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, the last anti-abortion Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, boldly declared victory just before midnight in his nail-biter...
