Former Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan saw it coming—at least in part. Three weeks ago, when he and I sat down for an ...

Democrat Jon Rosenthal will take a seat on the three-member Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees the state’s oil and gas ...

I’ve covered every election in Texas since 2006. Tuesday night’s results are, by far, the most shocking I’ve ever seen. For ...

Texas Democrats rushed to celebrate a jubilant night, the likes of which the party hasn't seen in decades. Even early in the ...

Over the course of the evening, the mood turned from hopeful anticipation to sullen resignation. By a little after 10 p.m., ...

Bobby Pulido said from the start of his campaign that he knew how to win over Republican voters in Texas’s Fifteenth ...

That nuance applied even when O’Donnell displayed our February cover, which featured a Reveille stand-in with a torn-up ...

In 1965 some friends and I floated Boquillas Canyon for three days. The Rio Grande flowed gently from the campground across ...

DCC director Kelli Finglass lobbied Mattel for over a decade before the dolls hit shelves. Now they’re treasured by ...

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The Brownsville-raised state representative helped snap the Democratic Party’s three-decade losing streak with an upset ...

The mild-mannered seminarian and state lawmaker will be the first Democratic senator from Texas in decades.