A Texian Partisan column
Congress Avenue covers state government and the Legislature, including the Daily Briefing. It's a column of the Texian Partisan.
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Midland's council voted 7-0 to end its Flock Safety license plate camera contract, joining a statewide pullback after moves by the governor and the comptroller.
Uvalde County's groundwater district told the utility commission that the Howard-to-Solstice 765-kV line crosses a high recharge zone for the Edwards Aquifer and could have 'a catastrophic effect.'
Under an agreed judgment with Attorney General Ken Paxton, Temu must keep Texans' data on American-owned U.S. servers, out of reach of China, and pay Texas $3 million.
Governor Greg Abbott asks Washington for tax relief after the July floods, the state awards $78 million in rural health grants, a Railroad Commissioner presses for industrial reuse of oilfield water, and...
The secretary of state's office says about 15,000 voter records were caught in a second state software error and sent to counties four days before early voting.
Texas voter registration passes a record 19 million two days before early voting, Temu settles the attorney general’s data privacy lawsuit, Washington closes fiscal 2026 nearly $2 trillion in the red, and...
Two executive orders from Comptroller Don Huffines bar Comptroller grant money from license plate cameras and require contractors to certify they run no discriminatory DEI programs.
Attorney General Ken Paxton sent letters to 156 data center developments in 32 counties demanding accurate water-use figures, the first public step in his September investigation.
Baltimore, Columbus and New Haven want the Supreme Court to suspend the Texas judgment that struck down a federal rule letting immigration judges shelve deportation cases.
Early voting for Texas's November 3 election runs October 19 through October 30. Here are the dates, where to vote and the seven forms of photo ID.
Lockheed Martin puts $300 million into its Grand Prairie missile plant with 2,000 Texas jobs planned, Texas stands to receive up to $57.8 million from an Albertsons opioid settlement, the governor fills...
The Public Utility Commission of Texas voted to take the legal maximum before ruling on rehearing requests against two Oncor 765-kilovolt lines, including a groundwater district's warning about unmapped wells.
