Politics & Government

On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott called for a special second session.

Two Texas Democrats are reportedly on vacation in Portugal, attracting widespread criticism.

Sixteen percent of Dallas renters are behind on payments and now face eviction, according to a study Surgo Ventures, a nonprofit organization focused on health and social issues.

Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the El Paso Walmart massacre.

Recent complaints by residents were an attempt to clean up Floral Farms. But, after code compliance swept the area, residents received complaints directed at their properties for things like incorrect placement of trash bins.

This week, the Poor People’s Campaign is marching from Georgetown to Austin to call attention to voting rights.

City Council member Paul Ridley beat David Blewett with 61% of the vote in District 14, despite the raising a fraction of the funds. Now, Ridley is having trouble getting his opponents’ board and commission appointees to step down for his replacements.

Santos Rodriguez was killed in 1973 by a Dallas cop who tried to get him to confess to an $8 vending machine robbery with a Russian-roulette interrogation. It took 40 years for the Rodriguez family to get an apology from a Dallas mayor. It took them 48 years to get an apology from the city’s top cop. Now, people wonder if a street should be named after Santos.

Dallas Cred violence interrupters fan out to four crime-heavy areas of the city. They don’t intervene in active violent situations. Their job is to interrupt patterns that lead to violent behavior and wreak havoc on communities.

In 2019, the Dallas Police Department’s marijuana arrests and citations accounted for half of all of these referrals sent to the DA’s office for prosecution.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign received a $100,000 donation from AT&T on the same day he vowed to pass restrictive voting laws during Texas’ special legislative session. AT&T’s CEO has said the company supports expanding voting rights nationwide.

Just a year ago, protesters around the country, including in Dallas, rallied around the slogan. It was on the tip of everyone’s tongues: “Defund the police.” Conservatives were outraged. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott endorsed a slate of so-called “back the blue” bills in the Legislature, and in Dallas, budget discussions…

Texas Democrats in 2003 fled to Ardmore, Oklahoma, to block gerrymandering legislation.

Released this week, a new TV ad condemns Republican state lawmakers’ latest push to restrict voting rights.

The ‘White Unity Conference’ was initially slated to take place in Paris, Texas, but facing community pressure, organizers had to relocate to Longview.

Dallas Cred doesn’t intervene in active violent situations. Instead, their job is to interrupt patterns that lead to violent behavior and wreak havoc on communities.

To begin their first full-day of self-imposed exile in Washington, D.C., the Texas House Democrats who fled the state Monday afternoon spoke in front of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday to explain why they felt they had no choice but to skip town to prevent Texas Republicans from forcing through new…

Earlier this month, Texas Republicans pressured a state history museum to cancel a discussion featuring authors of “Forget the Alamo.”

Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives are planning to fly to Washington, D.C. Monday in an attempt to halt the state Legislature from advancing controversial Republican-backed election bills during the ongoing special legislative session, sources close to state Democrats told to NBC News and The New York Times…

Exacerbated by the pandemic, continued staffing shortages at DPD caused by non-competitive pay and attrition led to falling performance levels at the 911 call center. And they haven’t gotten much better since.

A government watchdog group Thursday named Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton an “enemy of progress,”  citing his role in challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, anti-immigration efforts and ties to the oil and gas industry. The D.C.-based organization Accountable.US named Paxton a “top target” of its Enemies of Progress…

Since the start of 2020, at least 62 sanitation drivers have voluntarily quit the job, according to the city’s data. Another 37 were fired.