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August 18, 2025
Austin, Texas - Today a lawsuit was filed against Austin's Mayor and city council claiming that the approved ballot language for the city council's tax increase election violates state law that prohibits ballot language that misleads voters.
From Aleshire Law
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September 4, 2025
September 2, 2025, HOUSTON, TX - Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, Virginia’s first Black congresswoman, today announced her endorsement of Amanda Edwards in the special election to fill the vacant Texas 18th Congressional District. Frontrunner Amanda Edwards leads by six points in recent polling.
From Amanda Edwards for Congress
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September 2, 2025
September 2, 2025, HOUSTON, TX - Amanda Edwards, a local community advocate, attorney, and former At-Large Houston City Council Member, officially filed to run in the November 4, 2025 special election for the vacant Texas’ 18th Congressional District. The district, vacant since the March death of the late Congressman and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, has been at the center of the new Trump-mandated redistricting map, recently signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, that directly attacks the voting power of Black and Brown Texas voters.
From Amanda Edwards for Congress
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August 20, 2025
August 20, 2025, HOUSTON, TX - Elect Democratic Women, the respected national organization founded and led by Democratic women members of Congress, has endorsed frontrunner Amanda Edwards in the Texas 18th Congressional District special election race.
From Amanda Edwards for Congress
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September 11, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Two of the nation’s most influential Second Amendment organizations—National Association for Gun Rights PAC (NAGR PAC) and Gun Owners of America (GOA) - announced their endorsements of Congressman Chip Roy for Texas Attorney General, citing his unmatched record of defending the Second Amendment.
From Chip Roy For Attorney General
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September 12, 2025
AUSTIN, TX—Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC (TLRPAC) today announced its endorsement of Scott Bowen for the Texas House of Representatives (HD 129).
From Cision One By Texans for Lawsuit Reform
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September 5, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC (TLRPAC) today endorsed Representative Trent Ashby for election in Senate District 3, which serves all of Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Houston, Jasper, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Trinity and Tyler counties, and a portion of Jefferson County.
From Cision One By Texans for Lawsuit Reform
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September 10, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC (TLRPAC) today announced its endorsement of Fred Tate for the Texas House of Representatives (HD 98).
“TLRPAC is proud to support Fred Tate: a longtime Republican grassroots leader, successful small businessman and a three-time Senate-confirmed appointee of Governor Greg Abbott,” TLR President Lee Parsley said on behalf of TLRPAC. “Fred has been a leader in the Republican Party and for conservative causes since his college days at Baylor where he helped elect George W. Bush as Governor.
From Cision One By Texans for Lawsuit Reform
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August 18, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC (TLRPAC) today endorsed Brad Bailey, conservative candidate for Texas House District (HD) 15. HD 15 serves parts of Montgomery County including The Woodlands, parts of Conroe and Houston, and all of Shenandoah and Oak Ridge North.
From Cision One By Texans for Lawsuit Reform
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August 21, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR) today announced the appointment of JJ Isbell to the TLR Board of Directors. Isbell, a fourth-generation Texan, is the founder and president of Texas TransEastern, a privately held petroleum logistics firm based in Pasadena, Texas. In 2023, Texas TransEastern celebrated its 40-year milestone.
From Cision One By Texans for Lawsuit Reform
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August 15, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC (TLRPAC), the political arm of the state’s leading civil justice reform organization, today announced its endorsement of Ellen Fleischmann for the Texas House of Representatives (HD 96).
From Cision One By Texans for Lawsuit Reform
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August 15, 2025
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Today, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) joined United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary, Brooke Rollins, and Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) in Austin to announce the USDA’s commitment to fund and build a domestic sterile fly production facility to enhance New World screwworm (NWS) containment and eradication efforts.
From Congressman Tony Gonzales - 23rd District of Texas
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September 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) voted to pass the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The FY26 NDAA is a yearly policy package that outlines the funding provisions for our nation’s defense priorities and military quality of life initiatives.
From Congressman Tony Gonzales - 23rd District of Texas
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August 20, 2025
MONAHANS, TEXAS – Today, Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) held a roundtable with law enforcement from the West Texas region and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on oilfield theft within the Permian Basin.
From Congressman Tony Gonzales - 23rd District of Texas
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August 28, 2025
MANSFIELD, TEXAS – Representative David Cook, the Trump-endorsed candidate for Texas Senate District 22, today announced the first round of endorsements from prominent elected officials in Hood County. These endorsements were earned due to Cook's commitment to conservative principles and dynamic community leadership.
From David Cook For Texas Senate
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September 2, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – The foodservice industry is operating under a series of new and amended laws passed during Texas’ 89th Regular Legislative Session and effective September 1.
From ECPR Texas By Texas Restaurant Association
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September 11, 2025
September 11, 2025, HOUSTON, TX - Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, Democratic member from California’s 12th district, today announced her endorsement of Amanda Edwards in the special election to fill the vacant Texas 18th Congressional District.
From Edwards for Houston
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September 11, 2025
HOUSTON – State Representative Jolanda Jones, the leading candidate in the November 4 special election to replace Congressman Sylvester Turner in Texas’ historic 18th Congressional District, released a new poll today that shows Jones in first place.
From Elite Change
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September 10, 2025
A new study has revealed that students in Mississippi are most likely to ask ChatGPT to write their essays.
Experts at the essay writing company EssayShark analyzed Google search volume over the last year for terms related to using artificial intelligence tools to write essays. The team looked at 30 search terms, including “ai essay writer” and “how to use ai for essays,” to find out which states have students who want a quick and easy way to get essays finished.
From Eloise Peters PR
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September 5, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas — Fair Shot Texas PAC, the political action committee affiliated with the labor movement, is proud to announce the appointment of Andre Wagner as its new PAC Director. Wagner brings over a decade of experience in organizing, campaign strategy, and political leadership – both in Texas and nationally.
From Fair Shot for Texas Workers PAC
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August 28, 2025
AUSTIN – In an effort to ensure that Austin is a place where people at all income levels can find a place to live, to reduce the number of people living on the streets of the city, and to improve the quality of life for Austinites with more funding for public safety and parks, the Austin City Council has placed Proposition Q on the November 4 ballot.
From Foundation Communities
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August 13, 2025
AUSTIN – In February, Foundation Communities’ Prosper Health Coverage program was dealt a devastating blow from the Trump Administration. The program had been approved for $2.4 million from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through its Affordable Care Act (ACA) Navigator program.
From Foundation Communities
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August 15, 2025
SAN ANTONIO — Robert “Bob” Mihara, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and interim executive director of a San Antonio legal aid organization, announced Wednesday that he will challenge state Rep. Philip Cortez in the 2026 Democratic primary. Mihara’s entry comes as Cortez’s abrupt return to Austin, just days after joining the quorum break to protest an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting bill, stuns Democrats in the district and in Austin.
From Great Society Strategies
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September 8, 2025
SILSBEE, TX – Today, committed conservative and taxpayer champion Janis Holt formally announced her intention to run for re-election as House District 18’s state representative. Holt, a member of the Texas House Freedom Caucus, who ran on a platform of reforming the Texas House, stated,
“I promised that I would be a voice for our district’s conservative principles and for the priorities of the Republican Party of Texas. I have kept that promise.
From Holt for HD 18 State Rep By Representative Janice Holt - District 18
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August 26, 2025
COLLEYVILLE, TX - Fred Tate, a lifelong Republican, successful small businessman, and trusted conservative grassroots leader, today announced his campaign for the Texas House of Representatives in District 98.
From Lawson Strategies
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August 20, 2025
TEXAS – Today, the Texas House passed a racially gerrymandered congressional map designed to silence Black and Brown Texans and cement power for Trump-aligned extremists. House Bill 4 now heads to the Senate and inches dangerously closer to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk to be signed into law.
From MOVE Texas
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August 18, 2025
TEXAS – Today, Texas lawmakers passed a controversial, gerrymandered congressional map out of the Texas House Committee on Congressional Redistricting, designed to drown out the voices of Black and Brown Texans and lock in power for Trump and other extremist politicians. Today’s maps are significantly different from the ones proposed in the first special session, and Texans have been shut out of the process entirely.
From MOVE Texas
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August 18, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas (August 18, 2025) – The Texas Board of Legal Specialization (TBLS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tammy Simien Moon as Chair of its Board of Directors. Joining her on the Board are Cindy V. Tisdale and G. Scott Fiddler, who, along with Moon, bring a wealth of industry experience, member and legal insight, and a deep commitment to advancing legal excellence in Texas.
From Pierpoint Communications, Inc. By Texas Board of Legal Specialization
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August 19, 2025
Federal regulators are asking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate Campaign to explain or return roughly $658,000 in political contributions that appear to violate federal law.
The Aug. 17 letter from the Federal Election Commission gives the Ken Paxton for Senate campaign a little more than a month to justify five pages worth of second-quarter contributions that — as recorded in its paperwork — exceed federal limits on how much individuals donors can contribute.
From Potomac Strategy Group, LLC
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September 9, 2025
AUSTIN, TX — If you are covering State Rep. James Talarico’s entrance into the Texas Senate race, please consider the following statement from Texans for Senator John Cornyn:
From Potomac Strategy Group, LLC
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September 10, 2025
TEXAS – Turning Point USA has confirmed that conservative pundit, and CEO and co-founder of the organization, Charlie Kirk, was shot today at their meet and greet in Utah. This is but one example of the pain wrought across our country—felt by all—because Americans remain unprotected against mass violence from unregulated guns.
From Progress Texas
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September 11, 2025
BEXAR GOP CHAIR DENOUNCES POLITICAL VIOLENCE
AND HONORS THE LIFE OF CHARLIE KIRK
From Republican Party of Bexar County
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August 26, 2025
Rep. Trent Ashby (R – Lufkin), Republican candidate for Texas Senate District 3, today announced his endorsement of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick for re-election, lauding Patrick’s record as the most conservative and effective Lieutenant Governor in Texas history.
From Republican Trent Ashby For Texas Senate
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September 4, 2025
AUSTIN – Last night, Republicans in the Texas Senate advanced a new unconstitutional abortion bounty hunter law, House Bill 7. The new law sets a $100,000 reward for pursuing a lawsuit against anyone who manufactures, distributes, mails, or provides abortion medications to Texas women.
From Senator Sarah Eckhardt - District 14
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September 5, 2025
AUSTIN – Senator Eckhardt made the following statement about the end of the second-called Special Session of the 89th Texas Legislature:
From Senator Sarah Eckhardt - District 14
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August 19, 2025
AUSTIN – Tonight, the Texas Senate advanced three bills in response to the Independence Day floods that claimed the lives of more than 130 Texans. Together with forthcoming legislation on Camp Mystic, these measures answer the Governor’s call for flood relief by:
From Senator Sarah Eckhardt SD-14
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August 29, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – Today, the Texas AFL-CIO released the following statement after Greg Abbott signed Donald Trump’s redistricting scheme into law.
From Texas AFL-CIO
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August 26, 2025
Austin, TX -- Yesterday, the Texas House State Affairs Committee passed the committee substitute for HB 7, also known as the Texas Woman and Child Protection Act. With significant improvements made to the bill's language, Texas Alliance for Life now supports HB 7, and we encourage members of the Legislature to vote for it in its current form, without amendments.
From Texas Alliance for Life
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August 13, 2025
AUSTIN, TX -- Texas Alliance for Life (TAL) today announced that founder and Executive Director Joe Pojman, Ph.D., will conclude his tenure of dedicated service on August 31, 2025, after founding the organization in 1988 and leading it for nearly four decades.
From Texas Alliance for Life
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August 18, 2025
AUSTIN – Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller praised a decisive ruling from U.S. District Judge David Counts of the Western District of Texas, who issued an order reversing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered and threatened.
From Texas Department of Agriculture
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August 14, 2025
CHICAGO — Texas House Democrats announced today that they will only return to Texas once two critical conditions are met: the Legislature's adjournment sine die on Friday, as promised by Texas Speaker Dustin Burrows in a major capitulation from Republicans; and the introduction of California's redistricting maps that would neutralize the Trump-Abbott voter suppression effort.
From Texas House Democratic Caucus
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August 15, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Representative Erin Elizabeth Gámez (D-Brownsville), issued the following statement regarding the beginning of the Second Special Session of the 89th Texas Legislature:
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Erin Elizabeth Gamez
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August 26, 2025
GARLAND, TX — Too often, the actions of government in Texas are not just disappointing—they are insulting, offensive, and oppressive. When leaders twist the rules, silence communities, and put politics above people, it’s more than poor governance; it’s an attack on the dignity of every Texan.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Rhetta Andrews Bowers - HD 113
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August 21, 2025
(AUSTIN, TX) – On Thursday, the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed both House Bill 1 and House Bill 20, authored by Representative Darby, in response to the 27 young girls who lost their lives at Camp Mystic during the July 4 flooding.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Drew Darby - District 72
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August 18, 2025
Austin, TX – State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) today announced his support for a package of flood response legislation advancing in the Texas House to strengthen readiness, coordination, and communications statewide—especially where families and youth camps gather near rivers.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Brooks Landgraf
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September 11, 2025
ROWLETT, TX — On the 24th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, State Representative Rhetta Andrews Bowers (HD-113) joined students, educators, and community leaders in Rowlett for a flag-raising ceremony of remembrance.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Rhetta Andrews Bowers - HD 113
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September 4, 2025
AUSTIN, TX — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (Odessa) announced adjournment of the Second Called Session of the 89th Legislature and highlighted the House’s passage of House Bill 8, a centerpiece reform to make state assessments shorter, faster, and more useful for families and educators. HB 8 reduces overall testing time, and requires results within 48 hours so teachers and parents can act on the data during the school year.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Brooks Landgraf
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September 4, 2025
Austin – With about 5.5 million students in the Texas public education system, it is the responsibility of the Texas Legislature to improve the testing conditions students and teachers are currently experiencing. House Bill 8, which was lauded as a bill that would eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exams, passed the House yesterday for the final time. It now awaits the Governor’s signature.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Mary E Gonzalez - District 75
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September 8, 2025
I have served my community as your State Representative for House District 126 with great pride and honor, respecting your confidence in me for four terms.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Sam Harless - District 126
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August 18, 2025
Today, I returned to Austin with some of my Democratic colleagues to continue the fight for fair representation and responsive government.
We were greeted by the cheers of supporters, and we walked onto the House floor arm in arm, with two of my Black women colleagues in the House, a powerful reminder of the strength, dignity, and solidarity that ground us in this fight.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Rhetta Andrews Bowers - HD 113
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August 19, 2025
EL PASO, TX — State Representative Vince Perez will hold a press conference today, Tuesday, August 19, at 10:30 a.m. MT upon landing at El Paso International Airport. Rep. Perez is returning home after participating in a two-week quorum break, during which he joined Democratic colleagues in Illinois to oppose Republican redistricting efforts.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Vincent Perez - District 77
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September 5, 2025
(AUSTIN, TX) – Today, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 1 by Representative Drew Darby and Senate Bill 1 by Senator Charles Perry. The two bills will enact the strongest camp safety measures in the country. Earlier this week, the Texas Legislature gave overwhelming final approval to these priority camp safety measures, passed in honor of “Heaven’s 27.”
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Drew Darby - District 72
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August 20, 2025
Bee Moorhead, executive director of Texas Impact, the state’s oldest and largest interfaith advocacy network, released the following upon the passage of House Bill 4, redrawing the state’s new congressional maps in the Texas House of Representatives:
From Texas Impact
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September 3, 2025
Bee Moorhead, executive director of Texas Impact, the state’s oldest and largest interfaith advocacy network, released the following statement in response to the passage of House Bill 7, which is intended to prevent access to medication for elective abortions in Texas:
From Texas Impact
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August 19, 2025
Statement from Gary Bledsoe, President of the Texas NAACP
Today, the Texas NAACP wholeheartedly applauds the Texas legislators who left the state during the first special session, denying a quorum and halting the business of a legislature intent on adopting a racially gerrymandered and intentionally discriminatory Congressional map. Their principled stand stopped majority lawmakers from pushing through devastating changes that would further erode the rights of Black and Hispanic voters to elect leaders of their choice.
From Texas NAACP
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August 20, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued cease-and-desist letters to multiple radical organizations demanding an immediate end to the unlawful advertising, sale, and shipment of abortion-inducing drugs into the State of Texas.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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August 19, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a historic $9.5 million settlement with Booking Holdings Inc. (“Booking”) for deceptively marketing hotel room prices to consumers by omitting mandatory fees. This settlement marks the largest amount recovered by a State related to “junk fee” practices against any hotel or online travel agency.?
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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August 21, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton filed his merits brief before the Supreme Court of Texas, presenting the legal grounds for declaring vacant the seats of the Democrat legislators who abandoned their duties and fled the state to break quorum.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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August 18, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into artificial intelligence chatbot platforms, including Meta AI Studio and Character.AI, for potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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August 21, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order with a Tarrant County District Court, urging it to protect its jurisdiction following a flawed anti-suit injunction ruling by an El Paso District Court.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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August 27, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has made an emergency filing with the Texas Supreme Court following a deeply flawed and unprecedented decision by the newly formed Fifteenth Court of Appeals that puts a hold on a series of thoughtful orders from a trial court that restrained the fraudulent activities of repeat loser, Beto O’Rourke, and protects him from discovery and an upcoming temporary-injunction hearing.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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September 4, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton is continuing to lead the effort to ensure that the Ten Commandments are displayed in Texas schools in accordance with state law. Following a flawed ruling by a federal judge, Attorney General Paxton has appealed and filed a motion asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to hear the case en banc, meaning before all active judges of the court, rather than just a three-judge panel.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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August 15, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced an investigation into several utility companies connected to the devastating Smokehouse Creek and Windy Deuce Fires.
In 2024, Smokehouse Creek and Windy Deuce Fires affected more than 1 million acres in the Texas Panhandle, destroying hundreds of homes and causing massive ecological damage.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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August 20, 2025
WHAT: Blood drive with We Are Blood mobile bus for lawmakers, staff, lobbyists, and those who work in and around the Capitol, sponsored by Longbow Partners. The public is welcome.
From The Mach 1 Group By Longbow Partners
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August 19, 2025
AUSTIN, TX — During the Second Called 89th Special Session by Governor Greg Abbott, The Texas Senate has passed Senator Paul Bettencourt’s (R-Houston) Senate Bill 10 (SB 10) on a 18 to 12 vote. The bill, a priority legislation of Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, lowers the voter-approval tax rate (VATR), previously known as the rollback rate, for most large cities and counties from 3.5% to 2.5%, matching the growth cap already applied to school districts statewide.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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August 18, 2025
AUSTIN, TX — Senate Bill 3 (SB 3), authored by Senate Local Government Chairman Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) in response to the devastating July 4th flood disaster in Kerr County and across Central Texas, passed the Texas Senate unanimously, with 26 senate bi-partisan joint authors. SB 3 designated a priority bill by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, calls for the installation of proven time-tested technology, outdoor warning sirens, to alert residents and visitors when flood danger is imminent.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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September 2, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Today, Senator Paul Bettencourt’s (R-Houston) released the following statement relating the Texas House vote on Senate Bill 10:
“Unanticipated and disappointing vote by 71 House members of both parties stopping property tax relief for 10's of millions of Texas Taxpayers on their county, city and other taxing unit property tax bills in 2026, SB 10.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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August 27, 2025
Austin, TX – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) filed legislation, Senate Bill 19 (SB 19), at the request of Lt. Governor Dan Patrick during the second called Special Session of the 89th Legislature by Governor Greg Abbott.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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August 21, 2025
AUSTIN, TX — In defiance of the Governor’s special session call, Senator Nathan Johnson (D-Dallas) filed Senate Joint Resolution 4, to limit statewide elected officials to two terms in office.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Nathan Johnson - District 16
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August 14, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – The Texas Senate has passed Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) by Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) in a 22–6-2 bipartisan vote, replacing the STAAR exam with three shorter, instructionally supportive assessments while restoring annual A–F public school accountability ratings.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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August 27, 2025
AUSTIN, TX — Senate Bill 3 (SB 3), authored by Senate Local Government Chair Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), with House Sponsor Terry Wilson (R- Georgetown), achieved final passage with unanimous support in both Senate and House chambers during the Second Called Special Session of the 89th Legislature. SB 3, a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, filed in direct response to the devastating July 4th flood
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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September 3, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – In the final days of the 89th 2nd Called Special Session, the Texas House gave final passage to House Bill 8 (HB 8) with a key Senate amendment to restore the critical 8th grade social studies test and US History end of course exam.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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August 28, 2025
AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued the following statement today upon the Texas Senate’s passage of House Bill 8, Phasing Out the STAAR test, by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston:
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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September 2, 2025
AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued the following statement today upon the Texas Senate’s Passage of House Bill 7, Protecting Unborn Children, by Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Tyler, on second reading:
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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September 12, 2025
AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued the following statement today:
“This is not a personal fight with the governor. It is a disagreement on extremely important
policy. We worked together well this session and will in the future. On this issue, we
disagree.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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August 19, 2025
AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued the following statement today after the Texas Senate, for the third time since May, passed Senate Bill 6, by Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, Banning THC, with bipartisan support:
“Today marked the third time since May that the Texas Senate has taken bold action to protect our communities by passing legislation to ban intoxicating THC. Since 2019, bad actors have taken advantage of a loophole in Texas agriculture law to sell potent, intoxicating forms of THC that have nothing to do with agriculture.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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August 21, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows today issued the following statement after the House overwhelmingly passed its priority disaster preparedness and relief legislation to help strengthen the state against future emergencies and provide relief to communities impacted by recent flooding:
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows
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August 20, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas – Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows today issued the following statement praising final passage of House Bill 4, the House’s congressional redistricting bill answering Governor Abbott’s special session call:
“The Texas House today delivered legislation to redistrict certain congressional districts to address concerns raised by the Department of Justice and ensure fairness and accuracy in Texans’ representation in Congress.
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows
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September 4, 2025
AUSTIN, TX—The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus issued the following statement on the conclusion of the second called special session:
“Texans deserved better. Families are still reeling from devastating floods, yet Republican leaders waited until the very end of the special session to pass relief—aid Governor Abbott could have authorized months ago. While communities begged for help, the Legislature wasted weeks on culture wars and political theater.
From The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus
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August 25, 2025
Austin, TX—The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus issued the following statement on Republican leadership’s actions to block Senator Carol Alvarado’s planned filibuster late Friday night:
From The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus
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September 3, 2025
AUSTIN, TX—The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus condemned House Bill 7, deceptively named the “Woman and Child Protection Act,” as a dangerous escalation in the state’s war on women—a bounty-hunter law that punishes families, deputizes Texans as informants and exports Texas’ abortion ban across the nation.
From The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus
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August 15, 2025
AUSTIN, TX—The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus issued the following statement after Gov. Greg Abbott called yet another special session:
From The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus
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August 20, 2025
AUSTIN, TX (August 20, 2025) – The University of Texas System Board of Regents has officially appointed John M. Zerwas, MD, as chancellor of The University of Texas System, and James E. Davis as president of The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Zerwas has served as interim chancellor since June 1 and was named the sole finalist for the position on July 21. He has served as the UT System’s executive vice chancellor for health affairs since 2019.
From The University of Texas System
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August 25, 2025
AUSTIN, TX – Last week, the Time To Care TX coalition sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott urging him to add state funding for community-based services for Texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to the current special session agenda, and to take immediate action through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to provide flexibility for community-based IDD service providers across the state, who are facing a steep financial shortfall at the beginning of the new fiscal year, which begins September 1st.
From Time To Care Texas
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August 14, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – Today, Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) received the endorsement of the highest-ranked Republican in the House of Representatives, Speaker Mike Johnson. Speaker Mike Johnson is an effective conservative fighter with a proven record of delivering for the American people. He praised Gonzales for his work in helping President Trump deliver the strongest border security package on record and for continuing to bring home wins for Texans.
From Tony Gonzales for Congress
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September 2, 2025
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) received the endorsement of every Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
From Tony Gonzales for Congress
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