The latest Republican Party Of Texas news from The Texas Tribune.
In this edition of the Weekend Insider: We check in with Jay Root on the road at the Republican National Convention, and Morgan Smith looks at the changing demographics in Texas public schools. Full Story
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Many Texas party activists at the Republican National Convention say they have supported the same state leaders time and time again. But now, they are ready for a change in management. Full Story
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Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who spoke Tuesday to the Republican National Convention's Texas delegation in Wesley Chapel, Fla., said that he expects to run for re-election in 2014 "to build on what we've been able to achieve." Full Story
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The Texas delegates are uniform in their quest to stay independent – in spite of the Republican National Committee's proposed rule change on national delegates. Full Story
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Texas hasn't been a swing state in a national election for a long, long time, and unless they have big bank accounts, Texans aren't at the top of candidates' lists of people to see right now. Full Story
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All that’s standing between Texas and an absolute one-party rule is a traffic jam or a sick day. I don’t care what your politics are — that’s not good. Full Story
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This GOP primary runoff isn’t about the Tea Party’s principles, Ross Ramsey writes, but it definitely borrows from that movement’s rebellious nature. To steal someone else’s line: It's the disestablishment, stupid. Full Story
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With 37 runoff races on the ballot Tuesday, a political primary season that was originally supposed to wrap up in May is finally coming to an end. Full Story
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Big tents and boos on one hand, and talk about how to start a fire on the other: Notes from the Republican Party's convention in Fort Worth and from the Democratic Party's convention in Houston. Full Story
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Though in theory the platform sets forth official positions on topics as diverse as foreign policy and legislative procedure — and as specific as the HIV/AIDS crisis and the federal minimum wage— many officeholders take it as more of a guide than a rulebook.This year, the biggest debate may be not about what the document says, but what it doesn't. Full Story
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Texas Democrats are looking for a place at the table. Texas Republicans control the table, but are trying to stop the food fights. Running a political party isn't easy. Full Story
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The Republicans and Democrats have something newat their conventions this year: Candidates who haven't finished their primary elections. Full Story
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There's something new in the Texas Republican Party platform: a call for a national guest-worker program. Full Story
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Courtesy of WFAA-TV in Dallas, here's the full video of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's speech Friday at the state Republican Party convention in Fort Worth. Full Story
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Rick Santorum avoided aggravating an already divided group of fellow Republicans on Friday night and instead regaled the crowd with tales of campaign misadventures and hopes for the party's future. Full Story
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Retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison this morning delivered her final speech as an elected official before the state Republican convention. But as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, the audience didn't take kindly to her praise for Mitt Romney. Full Story
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At the state GOP convention, House Speaker Joe Straus said Friday he was confident he would keep his job for the next session. And he indicated that Republicans could hurt themselves if they focus only on demanding ideological purity. Full Story
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After some at the GOP state convention booed Thursday at Gov. Rick Perry's mention of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, he got a mostly positive reception Friday during his own speech. That wasn't the case for Mitt Romney, whose name drew jeers from the audience during a speech from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Full Story
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Conventions might not be absolutely necessary to conduct the state's political business, but they're important to the partisans who, just like other kinds of enthusiasts, find strength in numbers. Full Story
House Speaker Joe Straus, booed at the Republican state convention two years ago, is bracing for another chilly reception from the GOP faithful on Friday. Full Story
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