Ashley Lopez
Ashley Lopez joined KUT in January 2016. She covers politics and health care, and is part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News reporting collaborative. Previously she worked as a reporter at public radio stations in Louisville, Ky.; Miami and Fort Myers, Fla., where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award.
Ashley was also part of NPR’s Political Reporting Partnership during the 2016 presidential election. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
You can email her at alopez@kut.org.
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The new state law requires that voters use the same ID to request a mail-in ballot that they used when they registered to vote.
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This wave is hitting as the nursing workforce in Texas is burnt out and shrinking.
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Congressman Lloyd Doggett says laws passed since 2020 that make it harder to vote pose the greatest threat to free and fair elections in the U.S.
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The high court dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice's request to block the law.
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The Department of Justices alleges lawmakers discriminated against Latino and Black voters when they redrew the maps this year.
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Texas is one of several GOP-led states this year that has passed new voting restrictions this year.
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A part of the secretary of state's office will be dedicated to conducting election audits, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas.
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The CDC released two reports Friday following months of warnings from doctors and health officials that this group is particularly vulnerable to COVID.
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If passed, the Build Back Better bill would extend health plans to people living in Texas and the other 11 states that didn't expand Medicaid.
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Travis County officials say they are working with local school districts to begin vaccination efforts in the area.