Fox News poll says Democrat James Talarico leads Ken Paxton with 51% of the vote

Yet another poll suggests U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico stands a chance of becoming the first Democrat elected to statewide office in Texas since 1994. After one nonpartisan survey earlier this week put Talarico, an Austin-area state rep, ahead of Republican opponent Ken Paxton, Fox News drop

San Antonio native Henry Thomas finds human story in Texas-based film drama Due West

Since the Lone Star State has some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, the West Texas town of Alpine made a compelling setting for the drama Due West. In the film, actor and San Antonio native Henry Thomas (E.T.: The Extraterrestrial) plays Father Mike, a small-town Texas pastor whose de

For Texas DACA recipients, a fearful present and an uncertain future as protected status expires

Growing up in Austin, all the kids in Itzayana Mondragón’s neighborhood looked pretty much like her — and spoke Spanish too. Soon after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, Mondragón noticed that some of her friends had stopped attending class. She would learn later that those classmates were un

U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico rejects data center moratorium, calls for stronger regulations

State Rep. James Talarico, the Democrat running for the Texas’ contested U.S. Senate set, told reporters in San Antonio that he opposes a complete moratorium on new data center construction in Texas and instead wants common-sense regulations for the industry. During the Thursday appearance, Talarico