Two executive orders, plus an earlier move against TSA screeners, stripped collective bargaining from 84.4% of the unionized federal workforce. A bipartisan bill to restore it passed the House 231-195 — every Democrat for it, 195 Republicans against — and the Senate has sat on it for eight months.
NBC News obtained the 53 names referred to Paxton's office. One was charged with noncitizen voting. At least five were listed as American citizens in prior court records. Even the Heritage Foundation counts fewer than four such cases a year nationwide.
Republicans put a 12-year cap on congressional service to a House vote in 1995. Four of these men were there for it. Two of them are now in year 45. And five Republicans currently cosponsor a three-term cap while serving their 7th, 10th and 17th terms.
The Speaker campaigned for Herrera at a San Antonio barbecue joint days after another video surfaced. Johnson backed his opponent in 2024 and again this year, Trump's lawyer sent him a cease-and-desist letter in January, and a Republican group ran ads saying he 'does not belong in Congress.' Nothing about the record changed. A seat came open.
Five state Republican parties have added anti-IVF language to their platforms. In Congress, the SAFE KIDS Act would void surrogacy contracts with citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and 25 Republicans with report cards here put their names on it.
The Fifth Circuit restored nine provisions of Texas SB 1 that a judge had struck down for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. More than three million eligible Texas voters have a disability.
Abbott is reviewing all state and federal grant money to DFW and Houston airports over foot-washing stations Muslims use before prayer. DFW's has sat inside the airport's interfaith chapel since 2019; Houston's, described as for people of all faiths, since 2024.
In 2020 the federal guidance said nursing homes should have a plan to make sure residents can vote. The July 2026 replacement deletes that language and warns staff about breaking voting laws — citing a Texas prosecution in which no improper vote was ever cast.
Abbott Impact matches your contacts against the Texas voter file, shows you each person's party, birth month and election-by-election turnout back to 2016, and tracks daily who hasn't voted yet. You get points. Your contacts were never asked.
