On Fox News he blamed a residency rule Texans got rid of nearly eleven years ago. His explanation says nothing at all about the two other houses whose mortgages bar renting, one of which is on Airbnb.
Tony Gonzales resigned on April 14. Greg Abbott still has not called a special election, and the seat is not on track to be filled until January — a vacancy of roughly 260 days. A Democrat resigned the same day in California; voters there have already picked his replacement.
H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
A Republican governor signed the Texas Dream Act in 2001 with bipartisan support. In 2025 the Justice Department sued, Paxton's office agreed the law was illegal, and a judge struck it down before anyone who relied on it could be heard. The DOJ has now sued 21 states.
Texas added $1 to every car insurance policy to fight catalytic converter theft. A board Abbott appoints spent at least $30 million of it on AI cameras that log where Texans drive. Abbott stopped it Thursday night — the night before the Tribune published.
More than 1.2 million Texans have suspended voter registrations with the November election barely two months away. Here is the record of the two Texas Republicans on the November ballot who have spent years working those voter rolls — and what you can do before the October 5 deadline.
An AI super PAC that raised $125 million exists to stop states and cities from enforcing their own AI rules. One of these Republicans wrote the bill that does the preempting, one was promised $850,000 in a race he had already won, two were buying the stock, and one was carried by $2.35 million in outside money.
Paxton sat for depositions in 2019 and 2022 in a securities fraud dispute. The Wall Street Journal reported the 2019 transcript shows he handed a former client's records to the lawyer suing that client. Texans can't read either one.
H.R. 1232 would delete the part of federal labor law that lets a union and an employer agree everyone covered by a contract helps pay for it — in all 50 states, whatever each state decided. Missouri voters killed right-to-work 67-33. Michigan repealed it. Their congressmen signed anyway.
