One of the most heated races in the 2026 midterm could be the U.S. Senate contest in Texas

The new finding is about 20% higher than previous estimates of the known cost of the effort to remove Paxton from office.

Critics fear increased election prosecutions could intimidate voters and local election officials. Attorney General Ken Paxton has long sought more autonomy over election cases.

The attorney general office’s lawsuit is based on an undercover video published in February by a conservative activist group.

A second person has been arrested in connection to a Texas midwife who is accused of providing illegal abortions at three clinics around the Houston area.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that a Houston-area midwife has been arrested and accused of providing illegal abortions, marking the first time authorities have filed criminal charges under the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Per the attorney general’s nonbinding opinion, state agencies should change gender markers on government documents back to a person’s sex assigned at birth.

A letter sent this week claims the grant recipients, including many Texas cities and counties, may have illegally “induced” undocumented immigrants to enter the country.

Attorney General Ken Paxton said a recent statement by Dallas’ interim police chief raised concerns that the city might be violating a state law against so-called sanctuary city policies.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales is petitioning Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on the legality of a Bexar County constable’s use of a new speed camera system.

Dr. Hector Granados treats children with diabetes at his El Paso clinics and makes hospital rounds under the shadow of accusations that have thrown his career into jeopardy: providing care to transgender youth.

AG Ken Paxton’s office joins two other investigations by state officials into the commission as one service suspends operations due to the agency’s ban.

Two of the biggest lottery jackpots in Texas history are under investigation over claims that the winners may have benefitted from more than good luck.

A specific line in the lawsuit is raising alarm for some people that the case could have a much more sweeping impact beyond removing protections for “gender dysphoria.”

A pair of lawsuits filed by allies of West Texas megadonor Tim Dunn shut down laws that banned outside spending in the House leadership race, allowing for more political mudslinging and raising questions about ethics rules.

Three Republican judges heard oral arguments Wednesday after a lower court blocked Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to depose the charity’s leader.

Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has hinted at a possible run, has more support than the four-term senator among Republicans, polling shows.

Lawmakers in some states are pushing measures to crack down on abortion pills or penalize women who obtain abortions.

The new injunction prohibits advertising and age verification restrictions in the SCOPE Act, which aims to make social media safer for teenagers.

Allies of President Donald Trump have been quick to threaten primary challengers for Republican senators who don’t back Trump's Cabinet picks and legislative priorities.

The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.

The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three days before Donald Trump takes office with pledges of mass deportations.

The rule fines certain oil and gas facilities that exceed federal limits for methane emissions.

The Texas real estate developer whose relationship with state Attorney General Ken Paxton was at the center of the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of lying to a financial institution.

The Court of Criminal Appeals will rehear a case it threw out last year. Three of the judges became targets of Attorney General Ken Paxton over another ruling and lost reelection.

Allstate and its subsidiary, Arity, are being sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for allegedly collecting, using and selling data from Texans' cell phones unlawfully.

Burrows defeated Rep. David Cook with a coalition of Republican and Democratic votes.

The new speaker will have a dramatic impact on the direction of this year’s lawmaking — and potentially the future of the Legislature.

Justices on Monday heard arguments from Annunciation House, which is fighting to stay open, and the Texas Attorney General’s office, which claims the shelter’s work with migrants violates state law.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states are preparing to either aid or oppose his policies.

Hector Granados, one of two pediatric endocrinologists in El Paso, said he stopped providing gender-affirming care after it was outlawed in Texas in 2023.

Paxton’s latest tour is the continuation of his efforts in the past year to get political revenge on House Republicans who supported his impeachment.

Republicans are stepping up their scrutiny of dozens of shelters run by aid groups on the U.S. border with Mexico.

The state bar sought to take away the law license of Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster over a Texas lawsuit challenging 2020 presidential election results.

Voter guides, election results and a new law that does away with vehicle inspections were among the journalism that Texas Tribune readers engaged with the most.

The battles over abortion in the U.S. are increasingly focusing on the pills that are now the most common way pregnancies are ended.

The attorney general is accusing the organization of misleading fans by allowing transgender college athletes in women’s sports.

Attorney General Ken Paxton sought to delay legal proceedings until Jan. 13 — the day before the committee disbands — even as lawmakers vowed to continue fighting to hear from Roberson.

The motion escalates a tense standoff between Paxton and a bipartisan Texas House committee, which had subpoenaed Roberson to testify at the Capitol on Friday.

The new subpoena comes after lawmakers say Ken Paxton’s office stalled a previous effort to get Roberson’s legislative testimony about his conviction in “shaken baby” case.

President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, said the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey during a freewheeling press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.

Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine.

Paxton’s office has accused 3M and DuPont of misrepresenting or concealing the health risks of PFAS, which have been sold for decades for use in consumer products.

High-profile legal battles are nothing new for Texas attorney Tony Buzbee.

The temporary injunction issued Monday would affect roughly 90,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in Texas.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had sued the Biden administration after Border Patrol agents had cut the razor wire.

The attorney general has agreed not to contest a lawsuit brought by former employees accusing him of retaliation after they said he abused his office.

Dallas is the sixth Texas city the attorney general has sued this year over marijuana decriminalization measures that he says conflicts with state law.

So far Trump has looked elsewhere for his earliest cabinet and high-level staff appointments, in some cases passing over Texans who were in the mix.

Roberson was convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in a “shaken baby” case that many say led to an innocent man’s death sentence.

Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights.

The state’s highest civil court ruled that legislators can’t use subpoenas to block death row inmates’ executions, but suggested there’s still time for Roberson to testify before a Texas House panel.

Three new faces will join the bench, but the political balance of power will remain the same on the Court of Criminal Appeals.

Donald Trump has built close ties to many Texas Republicans, from judges to elected officials to policy experts.

Three fairgoers are requesting up to $1 million in damages and to allow guns at the State Fair.

Even before the Texas man’s death sentence became a political lightning rod, law enforcement and medical experts had differing opinions on the evidence that convicted him.

The AG also said he’d make a criminal referral against the lawmaker, who apologized for texting a Court of Criminal Appeals judge about a new trial for the death row inmate.

Members of a Texas House committee say in a Texas Supreme Court filing that Paxton’s office is blocking the death row inmate from complying with a legislative subpoena.

The lawsuit claims the endangered designation for six mussel species is a misuse of environmental law that threatens Texas’ economy.

After the attorney general insisted on the death row inmate’s guilt in a graphic press release, four lawmakers issued a point-by-point rebuttal.

Texas’ junk science statute has remained hamstrung for the last decade. So too have other criminal justice reforms, despite efforts from the Texas House.

Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the federal government of failing to provide citizenship data for registered voters, even as he acknowledged that the vast majority of the people on the rolls are lawful voters.

Three of the five judges who allowed Robert Roberson’s execution to proceed will be leaving the court after Paxton-backed primary challenges.

Texas has sued a Dallas doctor over accusations of providing gender-affirming care for transgender youths, bringing to court one of the first times a state has sought to enforce bans driven by Republicans in recent years.

In the first test of Senate Bill 14, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused Dr. May Lau of providing testosterone to at least 21 teens.

Here’s what you need to know after a ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat investigation found that Gov. Greg Abbott likely inflated the number of noncitizens on voter rolls.

A federal court’s decision is the latest development in a bitter pre-election brawl between Republican state officials and Democratic county leaders.

A federal judge had ruled Senate Bill 1 unconstitutional, but an appeals court says the law can remain in effect as Texas appeals that previous decision

The State Fair of Texas is back with a new firearms ban.

The city has appropriated $400,000 to help residents travel out of state for abortions. This is the second lawsuit targeting the fund.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has investigated at least five organizations this year that do immigration-related work.

A federal judge has blocked a Biden-era rule that said providing foster children with “safe and proper care” required placing them in gender-affirming homes.

Attorney General Ken Paxton had turned to the high court to overturn the ban after other lower courts declined to intercede.

Second Gentleman of the United States Douglas Emhoff is expected to speak on Monday at a Democratic campaign rally in San Antonio.

The lawsuit claims federal regulators have undermined the Texas oil and gas industry by misusing environmental law, negatively impacting drilling and production.

Texas AG Ken Paxton says the fair's gun ban violates state law, which bars most government bodies from prohibiting weapons.

The county told a state district court judge that the applications were already mailed out and any ruling would be moot.

Several local party officials have signed an open letter warning that “grave and deteriorating” fundraising and voter outreach efforts could leave some candidates vulnerable.

During the hearing, legal representatives for the state Attorney General’s Office and county commissioners made arguments regarding the potential legal action.

The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 7. The Texas Tribune, ProPublica and Votebeat want to hear from people removed from voter rolls.

A hearing scheduled for Monday in San Antonio civil district court will likely determine the fate of a targeted voter registration program approved by county commissioners less than two weeks ago.

Jolt, which advocates for more Latino voting participation, says the attorney general’s probe spurred threatening comments online.

Paxton sued Dallas and state fair officials last month, arguing the fair’s private organizer had violated state law by banning firearms on the fairgrounds.

Bexar County and the Texas Attorney General’s Office will face off in court Monday at a hearing regarding a voter registration program.

A judge ordered a temporary halt to the search of digital devices confiscated from Manuel Medina, the former chair of the Bexar County Democratic Party, in an investigation led by the Texas Attorney General’s Office into alleged illegal vote harvesting.

A longtime administrator with the Gonzales Independent School District is accused of using district resources to print flyers for a candidate for school board, state records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.

Parents of Texas children under 18 can now monitor and restrict their child’s activity on digital platforms including Facebook and Instagram — but only if they know their child uses the service.

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is again protesting the actions of state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Members gathered outside Paxton’s San Antonio office Saturday morning with signs and chants.

Texas is suing to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to get an abortion where it is legal.

The Texas attorney general filed a similar lawsuit earlier this week against Bexar County, which includes San Antonio.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio and four other Democratic lawmakers from Texas have signed a letter that urges the Department of Justice to investigate any potential civil rights violations committed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against Latino election organizers and volunteers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Bexar County Commissioners Court after a 3-1 vote to launch a program that would mail voter registration applications to residents regardless of their eligibility to cast a ballot.

The move escalates Texas Republicans’ brewing fight with urban counties over initiatives to proactively send applications to unregistered voters.

Texas officials have launched investigations into voting fraud allegations, but assisting other voters isn’t automatically illegal.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is warning Bexar and Harris counties commissioners about their proposed plans to mail voter registration forms to those he calls “unverified recipients.”

The request by the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus in a letter to the Department of Justice follows a similar request by a Latino civil rights organization.

The AG’s office sought to depose the leader of Team Brownsville, which provides water, shelter and basic necessities to asylum-seeking migrants.

With the State Fair opening in less than a month, the Attorney General is asking a Dallas County judge to overturn the ban on guns.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a ban on firearms at the sprawling State Fair of Texas, one of the state’s biggest annual celebrations.