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ABC13 took a closer look at voting rights for people of color in Texas and found we still have a long way to go to hit equality.

The polls have closed across Texas, except in El Paso, which is in a later time zone and still has one more hour of voting to go. Texas allows the counting of mail-in ballots and votes cast during early voting before the polls close, so those early numbers should start coming in soon.

We have reached the end of the first week of early voting, and the numbers continue to show a downward trend when compared to 2020 and 2018. 2,713,970 million people voted in the first seven days of early voting.

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Early voting analysis in two primarily Hispanic counties along the Texas border suggests Republicans are outpacing Democrats in voter turnout.

The primary electorate is usually whiter, wealthier and more ideologically extreme than...

Illustration by Texas Monthly; Getty Texas politicians and journalists often use football metaphors to describe legislative efforts. Representative Bryan Slaton “threw a Hail Mary pass” when he unsuccessfully attempted to tack an amendment restricting medical treatment for transgender children onto an unrelated bill about a cost-saving drug program. When a flustered House Elections Committee chairman Briscoe Cain called a hearing on a bill he claimed to have written and then abruptly adjour...