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The organizing and outrage over inmate heat deaths is reaching a crescendo this summer.

A new bill rolls back city-level rights for workers to take breaks during hot days—as Texas swelters through a punishing heat wave.

Gov’s veto spree included a bill that would have increased penalties for owners of attack dogs.

Texas has become the fourth GOP-led state to try to ban drag performances.

Greg Abbott’s move prevents local governments from passing needed regulations on things like labor rights, the environment, and more.

It is illegal in some states for transgender people to make public presentations that would be perfectly legal for cisgender people.

There’s only more of this to come.

Conservatives are bringing back some tactics from the original drug war. They’re cruel—and they also don’t stand a chance of working.

The author of Texas’s abortion ban faced no opponent in 2022.

John Scott once agreed to represent Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

How far can he go in a state that Democrats don’t win?

The bill would have also targeted citizens of three other countries.

“What happened to these women is indefensible and is happening to countless pregnant people across the state.”

Maybe it’s time to stop making fun of the Texas senator and start taking him seriously.

As Governor Greg Abbott prepares to sign a law banning gender-affirming care, teens face the possibility of being detransitioned against their will.

The party has not effectively countered the Republican plan to crush liberal power in the Lone Star State.

This is your brain on fossil fuels.

Not only are Republicans opposing gun reform, they’re also moving to further loosen existing gun law.

The Texas governor isn’t too worried about guns or violence toward migrants, despite two recent attacks in his state.