Tonight marks the first presidential debate of the 2024 election season, featuring President Biden and former President Donald Trump. The debate will commence at 9 p.m. ET and will be broadcast by CNN, with simulcasts on other networks including CBS and CBS News 24/7 streaming, as first reported by CBS News.

The former business manager and tax assessor-collector for Valentine ISD, Ernesto “Ernie” Villarreal Jr., was arrested on Monday for allegedly misappropriating school district funds for personal expenses. According to The Big Bend Sentinel, Villarreal, 42, was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 13. The indictment includes...

U.S. Rep Troy Nehls, R-Richmond, has stopped wearing a military service pin, a year after the Army’s confirmation that it was incorrectly awarded. However, he is still defending his military record and suggested the army revoked his badge for political reasons. Nehls was under heavy criticism for wearing a...

Richard “Kinky” Friedman — the provocative and flamboyant Texas satirist who mounted a spirited campaign for governor in 2006 — has died. He was 79. Friedman died at his longtime home at Echo Hill Ranch in Medina, his friends Cleve Hattersley said in an interview and Kent Perkins said on social media. He had Parkinson’s disease, Hattersley said.

In 2023, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller instituted a transphobic dress code policy for employees in his department. New emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that top officials in the department knew it was illegal. Miller is among the most conservative politicians in Texas. He is...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has blocked what was set to become the nation’s first religious charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, dealing a major blow to a conservative wing advocating for public funding of religious education. According to the New York Times, an appeal is likely...

More Texans have been struggling with housing costs driven by factors such as market dynamics, construction prices, and even algorithms, and this problem may continue in the future. According to The Texas Tribune, Texas housing prices are above where they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the number of Texans...

Republicans Attack Biden’s Immigration Policies After Killing Of 12-Year-Old Houston Girl. Writer, editor, photographer and editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson has joined the Reform Austin newsroom, where he will employ the artistic skill and political insights that earned a Pulitzer Prize to drive coverage of Texas government. As managing editor, Anderson is responsible for guiding Reform Austin’s efforts to give readers the unfiltered facts they need to hold Texas leaders accountable. Anderson’s original cartoons will be a regular feature on RA News. “Reform Austin readers understand the consequences of electing politicians who use ideological agendas to divide us, when they should be doing the hard work necessary to make our state government work for everyone,” Anderson said. “As a veteran journalist, I’m excited about Reform Austin’s potential to re-focus conversations on the issues that matter to common-sense Texans – like protecting our neighborhoods from increasingly common disasters, healthcare, just to name a few.” Anderson worked for the Houston Chronicle, the largest newspaper in Texas, from 2006 until 2017. In addition to the Pulitzer, Anderson earned the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. He’s also a two-time winner of Columbia College’s Fischetti Award, and the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award. Anderson’s cartoons have been published in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and other papers. In 2005, Anderson won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning while working for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. The judges complimented his “unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages.”

After two immigrants were charged with the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was found strangled in a Houston creek, state and national politicians used the tragedy to spearhead a new battle against immigration. Two recent Venezuelan migrants, Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and Franklin Pena, were arrested and charged with Jocelyn’s...

The US Supreme Court is poised to permit emergency abortions in Idaho, according to a Blooberg report. This decision could have significant implications for states with strict abortion bans like Texas. According to Bloomberg, a draft opinion briefly posted on the Supreme Court’s website indicates a majority of justices plan...

Rep. Steve Toth Seeks Tougher Penalties For Child Sex Crimes After Church Scandal. Writer, editor, photographer and editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson has joined the Reform Austin newsroom, where he will employ the artistic skill and political insights that earned a Pulitzer Prize to drive coverage of Texas government. As managing editor, Anderson is responsible for guiding Reform Austin’s efforts to give readers the unfiltered facts they need to hold Texas leaders accountable. Anderson’s original cartoons will be a regular feature on RA News. “Reform Austin readers understand the consequences of electing politicians who use ideological agendas to divide us, when they should be doing the hard work necessary to make our state government work for everyone,” Anderson said. “As a veteran journalist, I’m excited about Reform Austin’s potential to re-focus conversations on the issues that matter to common-sense Texans – like protecting our neighborhoods from increasingly common disasters, healthcare, just to name a few.” Anderson worked for the Houston Chronicle, the largest newspaper in Texas, from 2006 until 2017. In addition to the Pulitzer, Anderson earned the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. He’s also a two-time winner of Columbia College’s Fischetti Award, and the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award. Anderson’s cartoons have been published in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and other papers. In 2005, Anderson won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning while working for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. The judges complimented his “unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages.”

After the founder and senior pastor of Gateway Church resigned due to allegations he sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in the 80’s, Texas Rep. Steve Toth is calling for action and says he is working to increase the penalties for sex crimes against children. In an interview with WFAA,...

Dallas could be the biggest Texas city to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, as Ground Game Texas, a social justice advocacy nonprofit, has submitted a petition to put the measure to a vote in November. According to the Dallas Morning News, Ground Game Texas had delivered nearly 50,000...

Critics of Texas’s near-total ban on abortion claimed that the law would only create more death, not lessen it. A new study shows that is accurate. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed infant mortality rates starting from the date Texas banned abortion after the detection of activity along the cardiac pole. This comes before most people know they are pregnant and long before fetal testing for abnormalities incompatible with life outside the womb is possible. Texas law makes no exceptions for rape or incest, or fatal abnormalities. A clause that supposedly allows pregnant people to access abortion if their lives are in danger is so vaguely worded that few doctors in the state will provide one out of fear of prosecution.

Jennifer Lee is a Texas public school teacher, a single mother, and the type of person who showed her son Obama’s acceptance speech when he was only a baby. “I just wanted him to know that at some point in America, we had a lot of hope and I hope to bring us back to that point,” Lee says.

Battle For Public Schools: Lujan Faces Tough Challenge From Carranza. Writer, editor, photographer and editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson has joined the Reform Austin newsroom, where he will employ the artistic skill and political insights that earned a Pulitzer Prize to drive coverage of Texas government. As managing editor, Anderson is responsible for guiding Reform Austin’s efforts to give readers the unfiltered facts they need to hold Texas leaders accountable. Anderson’s original cartoons will be a regular feature on RA News. “Reform Austin readers understand the consequences of electing politicians who use ideological agendas to divide us, when they should be doing the hard work necessary to make our state government work for everyone,” Anderson said. “As a veteran journalist, I’m excited about Reform Austin’s potential to re-focus conversations on the issues that matter to common-sense Texans – like protecting our neighborhoods from increasingly common disasters, healthcare, just to name a few.” Anderson worked for the Houston Chronicle, the largest newspaper in Texas, from 2006 until 2017. In addition to the Pulitzer, Anderson earned the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. He’s also a two-time winner of Columbia College’s Fischetti Award, and the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award. Anderson’s cartoons have been published in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and other papers. In 2005, Anderson won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning while working for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. The judges complimented his “unusual graphic style that produced extraordinarily thoughtful and powerful messages.”

While Governor Greg Abbott has declared victory in his voucher fight, Texas Democrats are gearing up to challenge his endorsed candidates, honing in on education issues to flip several state House districts this fall. After the primary elections, Abbott was successful in ousting eight Republican incumbents who voted against his...

A new rule mandating tens of thousands of gun owners to obtain a federal license to sell firearms online will not apply in Texas, thanks to a successful legal challenge by Attorney General Ken Paxton. “Yet again, Joe Biden is weaponizing the federal bureaucracy to rip up the Constitution and...

U.S. Morgan Lutrell, a staunchly conservative Republican and former Navy SEAL, has taken an unexpected stand: advocating for the therapeutic use of psychedelics. Despite his traditional background, his experiences have driven him to support this treatment. According to a report by the Dallas Morning News, Luttrell struggled with his return...

Most Texans think they’re going to experience blackouts and that there will be a widespread failure of the electric grid. According to a new poll by the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, a majority of Texans are concerned about the reliability of the Texas grid this summer.