Following their walkout last month to avoid voting on a comprehensive election reform bill in the final hours of the regular legislative session, Texas House Democrats say they are willing to flee the state to block election integrity legislation during a special...
Election integrity reform is mostly dead this year due to mismanagement by Republicans in the Texas Legislature. But it may be revived—if the same lawmakers who bungled the priority over the past several months can do better in a special legislative session. With the...
While Texas election integrity advocates are disappointed the Republican-controlled Legislature failed to pass their top-priority comprehensive reform bill, lawmakers did manage to pass a handful of key election bills before the regular session ended Monday. This...
After hours of debate Saturday night and into Sunday morning, the Texas Senate approved a revised version of Republicans’ comprehensive election reform, Senate Bill 7, on a party-line 18-13 vote. The bill will be considered by the House this afternoon, just hours...
UPDATED May 28. In the final days of the 87th Texas Legislative Session, election integrity advocates are still waiting to see what reforms the Republican-controlled Legislature will deliver this year. Election integrity is a hot topic this session. After lawmakers...
Ten Texas lawmakers will decide which reforms get included in the final version of the Legislature’s top-tier election integrity bill, in a process likely to receive limited public scrutiny. This session, the House and Senate each proposed their own comprehensive...
Election integrity is a hot topic in the Texas Legislature this session—yet, as of May 15, not one priority election reform bill has been sent to the governor’s desk. Grassroots activists in the Republican Party of Texas chose election integrity as their top...
Updated May 7 to include the final House vote. After weeks of public discussion—capped off with hours of debate, overnight delays, and deal-making on and off the House floor—Texas lawmakers advanced Republicans’ top-priority election integrity legislation. But key...
In an unexpected maneuver, the state lawmaker in charge of moving election integrity bills through the Texas House advanced the Legislature’s top-priority election reforms, breaking a weeks-long logjam. On Thursday, State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R–Deer Park), who chairs...
UPDATED June 1 with FINAL bill-tracking status reports. As deadlines approach for Texas lawmakers to move bills through the legislative process, Texans are wondering if Republicans will push priority election reforms through before the clock runs out. Texas Scorecard...
A coordinated attack against election integrity is underway in Texas and across the country, led by Democrats and supported by the same special interests who participated in last year’s secretive “shadow campaign” to influence the 2020 election against President...
Republican-priority election integrity legislation is finally moving through the Texas Senate, more than eight weeks after the governor declared the issue an emergency. Following eight hours of debate and amendments that began Wednesday evening and ended early...
A new report reveals Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg funneled at least $36 million in private cash to local Texas election administrators in 2020, with most of the money going to boost turnout in Democrat-controlled counties. The report, Building Bias, is based on...
After Democrats used a procedural move Monday to delay a scheduled Texas Senate committee hearing on key election integrity legislation, the panel met again Friday to take public testimony on a dozen Republican-priority election bills, drawing scores of citizens back...
UPDATED March 23. A procedural move by Democrats delayed Monday’s scheduled hearing of multiple high-priority election reform bills in the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee, disappointing dozens of citizen advocates who traveled to the state capitol to testify in...
UPDATED March 20 to include upcoming committee hearing information. A bill to increase the penalty for election fraud crimes from a misdemeanor to a felony—an election integrity reform goal set by grassroots GOP activists—received a hearing in the Texas House...
Today, Texas’ governor publicly threw his support behind “robust legislation” to improve election integrity—a top legislative priority for the Texas GOP and the only one also designated an emergency item by the Republican governor. Election integrity “is an issue that...
Just ahead of this week’s deadline, Texas lawmakers in both chambers filed two big bills addressing election integrity, one of the key priorities for the legislative session. The highly anticipated omnibus bills, House Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7, feature long lists of...
Hidden cockroaches may lull us into complacency, but visible ones can be crushed. Recently released numbers show that investigations of inappropriate sexual relationships between teachers and students have reached all-time highs. These investigations, conducted by the...
