2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (653+ words) After a half-year delay and the scrapping of January contract that was a nonstarter, Bexar County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved a final pact for a new voter-registration system from third-party vendor VR Systems. The new elections-management system will enable…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago  (187+ words) Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. If Texas Republicans wanted to reassure the public that the attorney general's office might someday return to the boring, adult work of enforcing the law for everyone, they spectacularly failed....

5+ hour, 55+ min ago  (1071+ words) Misinformation and disinformation are especially common during election times, and the spread of AI-created content " such as the AI-generated video of Jasmine Crockett and John Cornyn dancing " has only made it harder to discern fact from fiction. Here's what you…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1708+ words) Remove the attribution from some of the most inflammatory quotes coming from politicians on a given news day, and it can be impossible to tell whether they were spouted by President Donald Trump or one of his state-level acolytes." Take…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (736+ words) State Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, on Wednesday blasted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for announcing an investigation into whether San Antonio's North East ISD and other districts facilitated student walkouts to protest White House immigration policies. "They're utilizing their First…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (697+ words) Two-month-old baby Juan Nicol's, who was detained at Dilley's South Texas Family Residential Center for a month as his health deteriorated, was suddenly deported Tuesday with his family after being diagnosed with bronchitis, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro. "After a…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (287+ words) During a closed-door executive session scheduled for next Monday, San Antonio City Council will discuss a pending vote whether to take the unprecedented step of censuring Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones, city spokesperson Brian Chasnoff confirmed. The meeting comes after District…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (573+ words) Congressional candidate Brandon Herrera is calling on Republican primary rival U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales to resign following an Express-News article alleging the South Texas congressman had an affair with a staffer who later committed suicide. Herrera, an online influencer known to…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (334+ words) U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales had a romantic relationship with an aide who died last year after lighting herself on fire outside her home, the Express-News reports, citing a text message and people close to the Uvalde woman and her family. The…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (309+ words) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this week moved to reclaim an insulting nickname by officially changing his reelection campaign's handle on social media platform X to "@GovHotWheels_TX." The nickname stems from Abbott's use of wheelchair. While some of the Republican governor's detractors…...