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Even as Greg Abbott and many fellow Republicans were still basking in what they called Texas' "most conservative 48 hours" in history, a former one-term state senator announced he would challenge the governor from the right in next year's GOP primary. Don Huffines, a scion of a Dallas family that made its fortune in the auto dealership business and a co-founder of a prosperous real estate development company, announced his candidacy in a series of tweets and retweets Monday. He promised "to finish the wall," eliminate property taxes and protect "election integrity." In one of the tweets, Hu...

Abbott spent 2 terms guarding his right flank, but a fellow Republican now sees an opening John C. Moritz, Corpus Christi Caller Times Even as Greg Abbott and many fellow Republicans were still basking in what they called Texas' "most conservative 48 hours" in history, a former one-term state senator announced he would challenge the governor from the right in next year's GOP primary. Don Huffines, a scion of a Dallas family that made its fortune in the auto dealership business and a co-founder of a prosperous real estate development company, announced his candidacy in a seri...

When it comes to Texas gun laws, the days of the wild, wild West were much more restrictive than they are now, when Texas may allow permitless carry.

A forced kiss by a male colleague. A catcall by a state trooper assigned to guard the Capitol. Late-night texts. A work meeting hijacked by a male legislative staffer: You are my ideal woman, he told his female interlocutor. The episodes illustrate what many women say is the biggest open secret at the Texas Capitol: That a culture of harassment persists despite repeated efforts to stamp it out. In interviews with the American-Statesman, multiple women described a work environment in which they are objectified and made to feel uncomfortable in their daily interactions with male counterpar...

AUSTIN — Late-filed legislation to require sexual harassment training for lobbyists will be heard in House and Senate committees on Thursday, suggesting the measures are being fast-tracked in the final weeks of the session. The measures, Senate Bill 2233, and House Bill 4461, come just days after the Texas Department of Public Safety launched a criminal investigation into whether a lobbyist gave a date-rape drug to a legislative staffer. It also comes on the heels of the speaker of the House denouncing the ongoing culture in the Capitol community that many say condones unwanted sexual ag...