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The organizing and outrage over inmate heat deaths is reaching a crescendo this summer.

A new bill rolls back city-level rights for workers to take breaks during hot days—as Texas swelters through a punishing heat wave.

It is illegal in some states for transgender people to make public presentations that would be perfectly legal for cisgender people.

Conservatives are bringing back some tactics from the original drug war. They’re cruel—and they also don’t stand a chance of working.

The author of Texas’s abortion ban faced no opponent in 2022.

How far can he go in a state that Democrats don’t win?

Maybe it’s time to stop making fun of the Texas senator and start taking him seriously.

As Governor Greg Abbott prepares to sign a law banning gender-affirming care, teens face the possibility of being detransitioned against their will.

The party has not effectively countered the Republican plan to crush liberal power in the Lone Star State.

This is your brain on fossil fuels.

Landlords have one of their own in the state legislature. She and her allies are looking to stick it to renters.

The Texas governor seems bent on out-MAGAing his Florida rival. People are going to get hurt.

Texas Judge Reed O’Connor’s long-running judicial vaudeville act is back for another season.

The new set list features many of the old hits—xenophobia, racism. But he’s added two new tunes that make him a much bigger threat now than he was the first time.

Red states are passing laws to advance their culture war. Blue states are passing laws to stop it. The Supreme Court is going to have to decide, and there is no compromise position.

The Texas-based group 40 Days for Life has brought its aggressive tactics to more than 1,000 cities in 65 countries.

President Biden called on voters to reject election deniers next week. But not everyone has that power because our elections are getting less competitive.

Latinos are said to be leaning Republican since 2020. That’s overstating it, but Latino voters are getting swingier.

“That’s really our only pipeline to the public.”