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Democrats pulled an unprecedented move to defeat the bill for now, but Texas Republicans are likely to bring it back up in a special session.

This is a developing story and will be updated. AUSTIN -- Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday he would veto funding for the Legislature after House Democrats...

The final form is being worked out among a select group of members from both parties and both chambers in a private conference.

The bitter Capitol fight over Republican efforts to toughen voter fraud laws has cast a brighter spotlight on Crystal Mason, a Tarrant County woman who was sentenced to five years in prison for illegally casting a ballot that wasn't even counted in 2016. Democrats and civil rights groups have embraced Mason's case as a cautionary tale on overcriminalizing election matters, and state Rep. John Bucy III, D-Austin, successfully amended a major GOP voting measure by invoking her name during a recent late-night House debate. The added attention comes at a critical time for Mason. The state's high...

Representative Rafael Anchia, a Democrat from Dallas, speaks against SB 7, at the Texas Capitol, on May 6, 2021. Eric Gay/AP Thirty minutes into debate in the House on Senate Bill 7, Dallas Democrat Rafael Anchia had Briscoe Cain, the Republican chairman of the Elections Committee, boxed in a rhetorical corner. Democrats were trying to show that the bill was nakedly partisan voter suppression meant to justify Donald Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Anchia had picked on a clause in Cain’s bill, “purity of the ballot box,” that originated in the Reco...