These Texans want better schools for Black students. They disagree on vouchers as the answer.

Editor’s note: This post contains an image that includes a racial effigy. Jennifer Lee and Kyev Tatum agree that Texas’ Black students do not receive the same academic support as their peers, that schools punish them unfairly and that recent state laws silence Black history and perspectives in the c

Report: Migrant child sexually assaulted while in federal custody in Texas

A lawsuit alleges a 3-year-old migrant child was sexually assaulted while in federal custody at a foster care center in the Rio Grande Valley, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the toddler was taken into federal custody shortly after she and her mother illegally crossed the bord

‘ShamWow Guy’ spent $300,000 of his own cash in Texas congressional race for just 3,000 votes

An ill-fated run for Congress in Texas’ 31st District cost long-shot candidate Offer Vince Shlomi — better known as the “ShamWow Guy” — more than $300,000 of his own money. What’s worse, for all the cash he poured in, the former TV pitchman landed less than 3,000 votes. Not only did Shlomi end his R

Report: Rep. Tony Gonzales sent sexually charged texts to campaign aide in 2020

Years before his affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, a married staffer who later committed suicide by lighting herself on fire, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales inundated a campaign aide with text messages requesting nude photos and sex, the Express-News reports. The previously unreported texts are among hundr