Congrats to the Texas Board of Education, which has reversed course on the spectacularly ridiculous decision to drop Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from its history curriculum.

It’s the first day that Texas legislators can file bills for the 2019 session, and already, the state’s Republicans are getting ready to further restrict abortion rights. Giddyup y’all.

HOUSTON, TEXAS—Shortly after 9 p.m., when MSNBC announced that Beto O’Rourke would not be the next senator for the state of Texas, some groans could be heard from the crowd gathered at the chic gastropub where the Harris County Democratic Party was holding its election night watch party. But the mood quickly picked…

Ted Cruz is predicted to hold on to his Senate seat. The unexpectedly tight victory brings an end to a race that captured the nation’s attention, both as a reflection of a changing political landscape in Texas and a proxy for the nation.

HOUSTON, TEXAS—On the Monday afternoon before Election Day, a specter was haunting the Creekwood Grill, a barn-like burger joint in the Houston suburb of Cypress. Democrats like Beto O’Rourke are “trying to shove a socialism-type government,” said Linda Parmley, 67, her blonde hair held back by a red bandana. “It’s…

HOUSTON, TEXAS — On the Saturday before election day, Hector Angeles, 20, and Oscar Cedillo, 17, were knocking on doors to get out the vote for Beto O’Rourke, dressed in bright orange shirts that read “Here to Stay.” The two, both members of the immigrant rights group United We Dream Action, were canvassing in a…

Texas hasn’t sent a new woman to Congress in over 20 years. That’s the entire politically aware lifetime of millennials. But this year, in one of the five most-watched national races for Congress, Gina Ortiz Jones, a young woman of color and Iraq War veteran, is running a close race as the Democrat against an…

Everything is bigger in Texas, except the location of an upcoming Trump rally, which is teeny tiny by Texas standards.

Curious as to what Ted Cruz, one of the most detestable politicians in America, is up to these days? Well, when he’s not trying to maintain his senate seat in a tight race against Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke, he’s getting heckled out of restaurants in Washington, DC, and spotted looking at photos of his…

The mystery woman from the Houston-area home surveillance video, seen frantically ringing the doorbell in the middle of the night with shackles hanging from her wrists, has given her first interview about the ordeal.

The Texas Board of Education has voted to cut Hillary Clinton from the K-12 curriculum, deeming the first woman to be nominated for U.S. president by a major political party unworthy of young Texans’ brain space. Helen Keller, Also on the chopping block: Helen Keller. Billy Graham gets to stay, though, lucky kids.

A federal judge has blocked a despicable Texas law that required fetal remains and embryonic tissues to be cremated or buried. Good fucking riddance. U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra ruled on Wednesday that the law, passed by the Texas legislature in 2017, violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and…

One of the only things I enjoyed about the 2016 presidential election was how much everyone fucking hated Ted Cruz. Somehow, even with the tonsil stones, Zodiac killer rumors, and Craig Mazin tweets about Cruz’s college masturbation habits, Cruz managed to stay in the Republican primary race until the very end. But…

This story is stranger, and sadder, than it initially appears.

A new poll from Emerson College places incumbent Republican senator and mutated blob fish Ted Cruz just one point ahead of his Democratic challenger, Congressman Beto O’Rourke, setting them at a statistical tie. It’s just one poll, but damn I hope it makes Ted Cruz feel like shit!

A couple of guys with goatees plus one woman stole a shark from a Texas aquarium on Monday by passing it off as a baby. “Oh, this 3-foot long thing with fins that’s dripping wet and trying to eat the stroller? This is our child. Her name is Terri, she’s teething,” they probably said.

The state of Texas is doubling down on its efforts, previously suspended by courts, to require the burial or cremation of fetal remains resulting from abortions or miscarriages—regardless of one’s wishes.

On Sunday, hundreds of people attended a protest against family detentions in Tornillo, Texas, where a “tent city” has been set up to accommodate unaccompanied immigrant minors, as a realistic or official path towards family reunification remains unclear. Among those protesting were a handful of actors and musicians. …

On Monday, the Supreme Court largely sided with Texas and North Carolina in cases challenging the fairness of their legislative maps. Per CNN, this means that officials will probably use those congressional district maps in the upcoming midterm elections, which is good news for racists and Donald Trump, and bad news…

I usually find it lazy to begin writing with a disclaimer, but I’m already breaking my rules by writing about my face, so here goes nothing: My name is Maria Sherman, and I’m product-phobic.