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Democratic lawmakers in Texas are leaving the state in a last-ditch bid to prevent Republicans from further gerrymandering their congressional map at the request of President Donald Trump. If successful, the GOP’s redistricting effort could potentially give the party an additional five seats in the 2026 midterms. Facing the possibility …

In 2021, Republican Texas state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione introduced the Human Life Protection Act, a trigger ban that turned Texas into one of the strictest anti-abortion states in the nation after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade the following summer. The legislation almost totally stripped women in Texas of …

Speaking to a private gathering of conservative operatives and fossil fuel advocates in January, a top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gave “the inside story” about how his office bullied Wells Fargo, one of America’s biggest banks, into dropping out of a global initiative to reduce carbon emissions. …

The state of Texas is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue denying emergency medical care to pregnant women, pretty please. The request, which the justices will consider at conference on Monday, September 30, comes on the heels of a new report that shows the state’s maternal mortality …

A judge on Friday moved to halt an investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) into the liberal watchdog journalism organization Media Matters, issuing a preliminary injunction in the case. Calling Media Matters a “radical left-wing” and “anti-free speech organization,” Paxton claimed to be investigating “potential fraudulent activity” by …

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused President Joe Biden of “running logistics for the cartels” in Mexico. “The very first day Joe Biden came into office, he announced there would be no more deportations [of migrants]. Why would he announce that? He was sending a signal to the cartels to …

Seattle Children’s Hospital has sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) over what they consider an invasive and unlawful request from his office to turn over information on Texas residents who received gender-affirming care at the out-of-state hospital. The hospital is seeking to have a November subpoena issued by Paxton …

Kate Cox, the Texas mother who sought permission to obtain an abortion, has been forced to flee the state to get medical care, her lawyers said on Monday. “This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO at the Center for Reproductive …

A pregnant woman was temporarily blocked from obtaining an emergency abortion by the Texas Supreme Court in a ruling issued Friday evening, CNN reported. The lower court’s decision was put on hold, and the Court said the case would remain pending. However, a timeline on when a full ruling would …

Last week, Kate Cox, 20 weeks pregnant and a mother of two, received the worst news a person can get: her baby had a fatal condition known as Trisomy 18. The baby has no chance of survival, but under Texas law, there are only two options available to Cox: a …