Politics & Government

After the Houston Chronicle‘s editorial board likened Mary and Joseph to refugees, Gov. Greg Abbott accused the newspaper of doing the “Devil’s work.”

This year, the Observer received a message or two from disgruntled readers. Here are some of the cream of the crop.

“We’re ready to go out there and start having this conversation in a much bigger way,” said Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement.

City Council members and residents turned out yesterday to oppose the building of duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes near single-family homes.

After Texas’ Republican governor signed Senate Bill 4 into law on Monday, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was none too pleased.

The number of Texans on Medicaid has ballooned since 2020. Now that federal pandemic protections have ended, many are being kicked off their coverage.

Meet Zach Freeman, a ‘concerned’ North Texas father of three who makes satirical videos demolishing far-right talking points and politicians.

Pro-Palestine advocates filled the City Council chambers to call for support of a ceasefire in Gaza. At least one city leader was open to it.

The Lone Star State continues its mission of deterring migrants from illegally crossing the southern border, including by introducing more razor wire.

The three facilities, purchased for millions of dollars by Dallas to house the homeless, aren’t yet housing anyone.

Texans are hoping for the best this winter when it comes to the energy grid, but experts advise preparing for the worst. Ya know, just in case.

City leaders and residents are torn on how to spend $1.1 billion in bond money.

On Thursday, a judge in Travis County said that what the state asked Kate Cox to go through “is shocking and would be a genuine miscarriage of justice.”

The Texas attorney general reportedly did not disclose the Broken Bow property on his annual personal financial report, raising ethical concerns.

After receiving a harrowing diagnosis, Kate Cox decided she shouldn’t have to travel out of Texas to get an abortion to prevent further suffering.

A trio of powerful Republicans have already taken aim at sitting House Republicans from North Texas for opposing them in the past year.

“There is no place for hate in Texas, and the current RPT leadership has set a place at the head of their table for it,” wrote the Texas Democratic Party chair.

While Dallas faces an affordable housing crisis, Mayor Eric Johnson wants more money for parks as the city nears the next bond election.

The GOP presidential primary frontrunner, who reportedly wants to build immigrant detention camps in Texas, was recently endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott.

Some worry that the move could destroy single-family neighborhoods by creating more density by way of multi-family residential structures.

“With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we cannot throw millions of families out in the cold,” U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett wrote in an open letter.

Opponents say the bills are unconstitutional and will lead to human and civil rights violations as well as racial profiling throughout Texas.