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South Texas was already a political battleground. New maps could alter game plans.

With proposed maps out, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, says he might switch to a neighboring district where U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, is retiring. The initial maps are also sure to impact decisions in regional legislative races.

South Texas was already a political battleground. New maps could alter game plans.

(The Center Square) – Border patrol agents will be banned from using horses in Del Rio, Texas, the Biden administration announced Thursday, after viral photos showed agents on horseback capturing

The two-term Houston representative holds a congressional seat with a storied Republican lineage. With the GOP-controlled Legislature about to release new district maps, some expect they will try to wrest the seat back into their column.

Scuffle breaks out at Rep. Katie Porters town hall Seema Mehta © (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) speaks Sunday during a town hall meeting at Mike Ward Community Park in Irvine. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) A melee broke out at Rep. Katie Porter’s district town hall meeting Sunday, with her backers scuffling with supporters of former President Trump who were loudly interrupting the congresswoman as she spoke. Porter, a Democrat fro...

Print A melee broke out at Rep. Katie Porter’s district town hall meeting Sunday, with her backers scuffling with supporters of former President Trump who were loudly interrupting the congresswoman as she spoke. Porter, a Democrat from Irvine, said that the acts of the protesters were premeditated and that all attendees had been given the opportunity to ask questions. “It is disappointing that a small but vocal group of attendees, who advertised a ‘confrontation rally,’ created unsafe c...

The NRCC released a new ad slamming Tom O’Halleran for being "silent while Arizonans suffer" from the "Democrats’ border crisis."

AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana 9 Jun 2021 Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (TX) was involved in an early morning bar fight in 2000 with Javier Garza, a municipal court judge, and Lonnie Flores, the then-mayor of Donna, Texas. Newly resurfaced newspaper reports and court documents from the early 2000s show Gonzalez allegedly made “demeaning statements” about the local police that allegedly started the brawl. The incident resulted in charges against Flores, and litigation from Gonzalez against ...

WASHINGTON — Whenever Vice President Kamala Harris has visited Milwaukee or Greensboro, N.C., or other cities to promote the Biden administration’s agenda, her travel has provoked a slew of tweets, op-eds and press releases from local and national Republicans, demanding to know why she isn’t instead going to some spot along the border with Mexico. Most of the Republicans’ attacks, falsely calling her President Biden’s “border czar,” are mischievous partisanship — their attempt...