The Brooks Development Authority has issued a notice of default to a developer over planned ICE office leases, giving the company 60 days to respond.

Lieutenant Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin says senators will help shape the agenda as she prepares to lead a chamber that remains under Republican control.

In the Texas Democratic sweep on Election Day, the Texas State Board of Education flipped. For years the SBOE has been ground zero in the culture war by issuing directives to public schools to teach a curriculum that pushed a pro-Christian right point of view, denying climate change and twisting history. We are joined by the South Texas SBOE representative Marisa Perez Diaz to hear about her plans in the new blue SBOE.

San Antonio state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer says a Democratic majority in the Texas House of Representatives will give bills that long stalled during the Republican majority a hearing and a vote. But to get Democratic bills to the governor’s desk, Democrats will have to work with a Senate still controlled by Republicans.

Texas Democrats are preparing an ambitious legislative agenda following their historic victories in the Nov. 3 election, with proposals to expand healthcare, raise wages, make voting easier and repeal the state's private school voucher program.

Days after flipping a deep-red congressional district, Democrat Katy Padilla Stout is taking heat for joining a club of Capitol Hill’s most progressive members.

The Trump administration filed an emergency relief request with the high court earlier in October asking for the construction to continue while a lawsuit over the plan moves forward.

Outgoing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he supports Republican state senators changing the rules to strip powers from his Democratic successor after losing his reelection bid by nearly 600,000 votes.

Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa could appoint at least two new commissioners to lead the state’s top environmental agency. Plus, a new Democrat on the Texas Railroad Commission could be a deciding vote.

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones says DHS has agreed to an environmental review of a planned ICE detention facility following the city’s lawsuit.