Texas Tribune Brief

The former president is set to appear on a tele-town hall Thursday to get out the vote for Wright in Saturday's contest.

While proponents of the ordinance view abortion as an "inconceivably wicked action," detractors say it would be immediately challenged in court and that battles over abortion access are best fought at the state and federal levels.

Texas will have 38 congressional seats as a result of the latest U.S. census. The state’s political heft has been growing steadily for decades, gaining at least two seats after every census since 1980.

The news comes a day after state health officials said that a Texas woman who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine had been hospitalized with blood clots and whose condition was being investigated by the CDC as potentially connected to the vaccine. No other details were released.

After months of testing for COVID-19 and treating patients, Dr. Carolyn Salter is determined to mitigate the spread of the virus in the region. Listen in the weekend edition of The Brief podcast.

House members filed nearly 240 proposed tweaks to the massive spending plan and spent hours taking votes on controversial issues ranging from Medicaid expansion to border security.

Before moving to Minneapolis, Floyd had been a longtime Houston resident. That city's mayor says he and the Houston Police Department would be announcing police reforms next week.

Equality Texas CEO Ricardo Martinez said Texas has filed more anti-LGBTQ bills this session than any other state legislature.

Texas Competes, which is made up of more than 1,450 Texas employers, chambers of commerce, tourism bureaus and industry associations, is advocating the “economic case for equality.”

The push to steel Texas against new federal rules comes amid several recent incidents of gun violence nationwide — including shootings in Bryan and Austin. Democrats are calling for an assault weapons ban and stronger background checks, among other changes.