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Texas Republican Briscoe Cain blindsides fellow lawmakers in push for House version of new voting restrictions Texas Tribune Tags:  Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A raw power play by the chair of the Texas House Elections Committee came up one vote short Thursday, but the legislative blindside maneuver underscored the intensity behind the Republican push to get proposed voting restrictions to the governor’s desk — and the competing visions between the House and Se...

As many as 44 low-income families in Round Rock are facing possible homelessness this week after receiving eviction notices that gave them seven days to leave their freeze-damaged town homes, community advocates said. The families who live at the Townhomes at Double Creek, 2500 Louis Henna Blvd., had been staying in hotels, waiting for repairs after water damage was caused by pipes bursting during the deadly freeze in mid-February.  They received a notice from the Double Creek management Thursday that they would be evicted from their homes Wednesday and that management would also stop pa...

By Kenneth Semien Sr. Nineteen years ago, I lost my sight and hearing in my right ear following a severe case of meningitis and long hospitalization. Overcoming challenges is not new to me.  Yet, the barriers that some in the Texas Legislature wish to construct around the ballot box are especially egregious this legislative session and leave me disappointed and extremely concerned about the direction our state is headed.  Texas already ranks dead last among the 50 U.S. states in ease of voting, according to a recent study by researchers at Northern Illinois University and Jacksonville Un...

Texas Democrats have railed against these GOP so-called election reform bills, deemed an emergency item this legislative session by Governor Greg Abbott, as a solution in search of a voting fraud problem. Voters line up outside Richardson City Hall for early voting Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, in Richardson, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero) AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — With Texas Republican state lawmakers using their majority to push through “election integrity” bills, Democrats sought clarity Thursday on how the legislation would impose criminal penalties on election judges for obstructing poll watcher...

KUT A person carries a bucket filled with firewood in the Travis Heights neighborhood of South Austin on Tuesday. When Cornell Woolridge finally ventured out of his Northwest Austin home to get water and food following the extreme weather last week, he noticed police vehicles outside an elderly neighbor’s house. “It left me with a lump with my throat,” he said. A younger man was crying outside the house. It was his neighbor’s son, who had just learned his father had passed away inside. “I asked, ‘Did he have power? Was it related to the Texas blackout?’” Woolridge said. “And...