Donald Trump has a mostly invisible ground game in Texas, while Hillary Clinton has a visible one. A fight over whether Texas could be turning purple. A move is afoot to get rid of the controversial STAAR test in some districts, but would that be legal? And a fight over mandatory vaccines for school students appears to be ginning back up again.

Texas politics are never boring, and the intriguing highlights and these and other topics that have dominated headlines in recent days are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast -- now the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State, with a Facebook Live post so you can see the show each week as it happens.

Donald Trump's big immigration speech and his trip to Mexico, Taco trucks on every corner and the FBI releases more details about its investigation of Hillary Clinton, raising new questions about her campaign. Plus, some Texas lawmakers raise the possibility we will have statewide rules for Uber, Lyft and other ridesharing companies, just as former Gov. Rick Perry surprises everyone with his new gig: A guest spot on Dancing With the Stars.

Texas politics are never boring, and the intriguing highlights and these others that dominated the headlines are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast -- now the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State, with a Facebook Live post so you can see the show each week as it happens.

Donald Trump's softening position on immigration may be no change at all, Hillary Clinton's crisis of trust and the controversial conspiracy theorist who chaired the Travis County Republican Party gets the boot in Austin. Plus, even though millions have been set aside for to expand and repair the state's  transportation infrastructure, there's already talk of possibly more toll roads in Texas.

Texas politics are never boring, and the intriguing highlights and these others that dominated the headlines are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast -- now the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State, with a Facebook Live post so you can see the show each week as it happens.

Aside from new polls in the Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton race, questions about who could perhaps beat Ted Cruz and a Rick Perry "shame on you" to a Gold Star father top the week in Texas politics, plus Syrian refugees and a battle over local control.

Texas politics are never boring, and the intriguing highlights and these others that dominated the headlines are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast -- now the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State, with a Facebook Live post so you can see the show each week as it happens.

Donald Trump holds it in the road, but only for a day, as Hillary Clinton faces new e-mail questions and as Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush takes a new approach to Trump, who he had previously refused to support. These and other intriguing highlights of the political week are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast -- now the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State, with a Facebook Live post so you can see the show each week as it happens.

Hillary Clinton's poll lead grows, as Donald Trump tried to stop the bleeding as his campaign hits a rough patch. Texas' controversial Voter ID law is going to be reined in for the November election, after an adverse federal court ruling, and a meltdown in the Dallas County Republican Party could be a sign of things to come in the rest of Texas. These and other intriguing highlights of the political week are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast -- now the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State.

Hillary Clinton makes history as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party, with a cheering send-off from the Democratic National Convention, as the general election campaign begins in earnest -- even before the convention was over as Republican nominee Donald Trump grabbed the limelight. And then there was the almost meet-up between U.S. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr. in Houston as Attorney General Ken Paxton stayed in the headlines. These and other intriguing highlights of the political week are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast – now the leading political podcast in the Lone Star State.

Donald Trump accepts the Republican nomination after Ted Cruz united the GOP against himself amid high drama, and Tim Kaine becomes Hillary Clinton's running mate. Plus, a major ruling on Voter ID and new controversy over the disposal of fetal tissue head to the Legislature for answers. These and other highlights of the political week are explored in this week's Texas Take: The Podcast.

As the tragedy of the Dallas police ambush continued to unfold, a public debate erupted over the complicated issues involved: Relations between police and African-American communities, Second Amendment gun rights and new limits on gun purchases. That, plus new rules that will require burying or cremating aborted fetuses and Ted Cruz speaking at Donald Trump's GOP national convention without an endorsement are the top of this week's Texas Take: The Podcast.

Three years after the state Senate filibuster that made Wendy Davis famous, the Supreme Court strikes down the law she was fighting against. Mike and Scott enlighten on the issues and politics going forward, with insight from Chronicle reporter Brian Rosenthal and from Brandon Rottinghaus, a University of Houston political science professor who gives an insider’s update on two polls showing that The Donald has just a single-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in Red State Texas – and what this and all the other political developments of the week will mean in coming months.