I’m Justin Dehn with a brief look at the latest news in Texas politics and policy from The Texas
Tribune.

I’m Justin Dehn with a brief look at the latest news in Texas politics and policy from The Texas
Tribune, where we’ve kicked off our annual fall member drive. This month we’re aiming to rally 400 new members to join our nonprofit newsroom. Can we count you among those who value our public interest journalism enough to support it with a donation? Join now at texastribune.org/give to help us reach our goal.

I’m Justin Dehn with a brief look at the latest news in Texas politics and policy from The Texas
Tribune, where we’re kicking off our annual fall member drive. Before the month ends, we’re aiming to rally 400 new members to join our nonprofit newsroom. Can we count you among those who value our public interest journalism enough to support it with a donation? Join now at texastribune.org/give to help us reach our goal.

I’m Justin Dehn with a brief look at the latest news in Texas politics and policy from The Texas Tribune.

I’m Justin Dehn with a brief look at the latest news in Texas politics and policy from The Texas Tribune.

I’m Justin Dehn with a brief look at the latest news in Texas politics and policy from The Texas Tribune.

In a state with a long history of discrimination, Texas lawmakers are kicking off the 2021 round of political mapmaking — the first in nearly half a century without federal oversight.
In writing about the heated process of drawing political maps, The Texas Tribune’s Alexa Ura describes how a Supreme Court ruling stood as the culmination of a chain of events that changed how political mapmaking in Texas will be scrutinized and overseen for years to come.
In 2018, the high court overruled a lower court’s ruling that lawmakers had drawn districts back in 2013 with discriminatory intent.
Ura writes that while state lawmakers face an incredibly pivotal and politically charged moment in 2021, they will have much more freedom to set those political lines.

The state party has high hopes and ambitious goals in a new document outlining their path to turning the state blue.

A federal judge on Friday was visibly frustrated as he suggested that putting state officials into uncooled cells might be the only thing to get their attention after breaking a settlement agreement to keep some inmates in air conditioning.

Responding to last month’s mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa, Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday issued eight executive orders. The orders focus largely on improving reporting channels when members of the public or law enforcement agencies worry that a person might become violent.