Most of the rationale for making mifepristone and misoprostol controlled substances is gibberish. Groups are targeting these drugs because they offer a way around abortion bans.

The state GOP just approved a party platform that would effectively ensure one-party rule.

The Pelican State joins Texas and Florida in a race to the bottom to see who can stick it to workers the worst.

The Fifth Circuit's become little more than a junior varsity version of the Supreme Court. Sending some new judges to the Lone Star State will help put things right.

At The Free Press’s Texas-size immigration debate, nothing was at stake and everybody won.

The two top lawmakers in the Lone Star State are pursuing personal vendettas against fellow Republicans—and leading their party into the fringes.

The Fifth Circuit’s well-documented judicial shenanigans have earned a surprising rebuke from the high court.

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale likes making viral videos and huge bets on Houston sports teams. He’s also spending big to push the state even further right.

They don’t expect fossil fuels to be phased out anytime soon.

A visit to the valley that’s supposedly trending Trump reveals that Democrats still have an advantage—but people’s lives don’t always fit into ideological boxes.

The Texas National Guard has deployed lies, fire, and razor wire in what’s been a largely inept attempt to deter asylum-seekers.

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says the state should step in if the private sector fails to build natural gas facilities. How about renewables instead?

The sham impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas shows that the GOP now exists solely to please Trump.

The recent Texas razor-wire case highlights the way the justices can use the so-called “shadow docket” to resolve disputes while obfuscating their rationale.

The oil company’s attempt to exclude proposals to do marginally more about emissions has gotten farcical.

Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill this week declaring that the state will enforce federal immigration laws within its own borders. Even the Supreme Court may find that to be a bridge too far.

Attorney General Ken Paxton personally intervened to endanger Kate Cox’s life and preserve the Lone Star State’s post-Roe dystopia.

As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.

An anti-abortion activist and Texas’s attorney general have teamed up to try to force the organization out of the state—and now an anti-abortion judge has advanced their cause.

A recent poll shows the Texas Democrat only 5 percent behind the lightning-rod GOP incumbent. Here’s how he might pull off the cycle’s biggest upset.