Ted Cruz Reorganizes His Kitchen Cabinet
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz shook up his Senate office Wednesday in moves that were widely viewed as aimed at positioning the Texas Republican for a future run for president. Full Story
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In Unusual Senate Race, Houston Democrats Vie to Replace Ellis
In the span of a month, a Texas Senate seat will have been vacated and effectively filled, an unconventional turn of events that has Houston Democrats scrambling to replace one of their most venerated members. Full Story
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Trump Campaign Makes Hires With Ties to Cruz, Texas
As Donald Trump moves to professionalize his presidential campaign, the presumptive Republican nominee is turning to a stable of top-flight operatives with ties to Texas and its junior U.S. senator. Full Story
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Abortion Ruling Dominates Week in Texas Politics (Video)
In the Roundup: The High Court overturns the state’s abortion regulations, the Texas Attorney General weighs in on the Fort Worth superintendent’s transgender policy and a new poll shows a little promise for the Clinton campaign in Texas. Full Story
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Despite Tightening Polls, No Sign Clinton Vying to Beat Trump in Texas
Recent polls show Hillary Clinton within single digits of Donald Trump in Texas. And Clinton herself said last month that she believed the state was flippable. Yet all signs point to Clinton ceding the state to Trump. Full Story
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Uncertainty Looms Over Cruz's Role in Cleveland
It has been almost two months since Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race, and — at least publicly — his attitude toward the man who beat him has not changed. Full Story
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Border Wall and Muslim Ban Don't Bother Texas Voters (Podcast)
This week on The Ticket: Ben Philpott and Jay Root try to figure out whether or not the national GOP hand-wringing over Donald Trump has made its way to Texas Republicans. Full Story
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UT Poll: Trump Leads Clinton by 8 in Texas
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leads Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 8 percentage points in Texas, according to a University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll released Monday. Full Story
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Trump on Texit: Texas Won't Secede "Because Texas Loves Me"
Donald Trump on Sunday said Texas will not secede from the United States if he is president because "Texas loves me." Full Story
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Ellis Wins Democratic Nomination for Harris County Commissioner
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, has won the Democratic nomination for a vacant seat on the Harris County commissioner's court, putting the 26-year Texas Senate veteran on a path to leave the Legislature by next year. Full Story
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Austin-Based Pro Sanders PAC Raises Questions
A pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC headed by an Austin businessman has raised more than $250,000, but it's unclear what the group is doing to help the Democratic presidential hopeful. Full Story
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Does Julián Castro Have the Chops to be Veep?
Julián Castro's experience — first as San Antonio mayor, then as U.S. housing secretary — is getting a closer look than ever as Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, zeroes in on a choice for running mate. Full Story
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Analysis: To Every Wing, There is a Season
The primaries and runoffs are out of the way. The state conventions are over. The hot arguments that produced the state party platforms have cooled. And the power of the most partisan Republicans and Democrats is ebbing with the season. Full Story
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These Texas Lawmakers Have More Cash on Hand Than Donald Trump
Nearly a dozen-and-a-half Texans have more cash in the bank than Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Full Story
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Platforms Reveal Texas Republicans, Democrats Actually Agree on Stuff
Though they disagree on almost every policy issue, from education funding to abortion to immigration, Texas Republicans and Democrats seem to have common ground on a few things, according to their newly approved platforms. Full Story
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Scenes From the Texas Democratic Convention
Scenes from the Texas Democratic Party's convention in San Antonio. Full Story
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Analysis: The Republican Who’s Keeping Texas Democrats Together
Donald Trump starred this weekend as the minority party’s engine, a source of Texas Democratic Party delegates’ enthusiasm and of their hope that someday, perhaps even someday soon, voters will elect a Democrat to statewide office. Full Story
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Texas Democrats Seek to Bring Sanders' Supporters into the Fold (Video)
As Donald Trump crisscrossed the state fundraising and rallying supporters this week, Texas Democrats gathered to unite thousands of delegates behind their party’s presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, to help ensure Trump’s defeat. But some delegates aren’t quite ready to abandon Bernie Sanders. Full Story
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Scenes from Trump's Texas Campaign Swing
Here's a slideshow from our photographers at the Trump rallies in Dallas and The Woodlands. Full Story
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At San Antonio Fundraiser, Trump Is Prodded On Immigration, Trade
As Donald Trump scrambles to build a fundraising network, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been relying on a number of people in Texas who do not see eye-to-eye with him on many of his signature policy Proposals. On Friday, he got an earful from at least one of them. Full Story
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