Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.
Mayor John Whitmire has instructed Houston police to stop notifying immigration agents when they encounter someone without legal status during routine street stops.
Insult politics are out. Ken Paxton’s attacks on James Talarico were “digging his political grave,” the columnist David French argues. In a recent live episode of “The Opinions,” French describes how some conservative evangelicals in Texas privately told him they planned to vote for Talarico — and why Republican attacks weren’t resonating with voters.
Anger over tariffs and higher costs because of the war in Iran led many Republican farmers and ranchers to vote blue — or stay home.
See the full list of the Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents and challengers for Congress and state offices previously held by Republicans.
On a visit to Lyndon Johnson’s Texas ranch, a cub reporter learned why it pays to get out of Washington.
Democrats’ wins in the Lone Star state exceeded their wildest dreams.
After a sweeping Democratic victory, Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa will try to reshape a state molded by decades of conservative policymaking, with Republicans still in control of the State Senate.
Mayor John Whitmire has instructed Houston police to no longer alert ICE agents when they encounter an unauthorized migrant during routine traffic stops or in connection with other low-level infractions.
James Talarico’s worn-in Lucchese cowboy boots helped shape his image during his Senate campaign in Texas. Vanessa Friedman, our chief fashion critic, explains the political meanings they carried.
A younger, more diverse electorate than is typical in midterm elections helped drive Democrats’ decisive victory, along with gains among swing voters and support from some Republican voters. Nate Cohn, The New York Times’s chief political analyst, explains.
George and Laura Bush made their first public comment on the controversy roiling their usually decorous congregation, which is reverberating far outside Texas.
Obviously, the Texas election was about more than shoes. But the symbolism mattered.
Years of organizing met a moment of voter discontent, as James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa offered Texans a vision of economic relief and political change.
A new agreement in New York is only the latest that Catholic dioceses have reached since the early 2000s with people who say they were victims of clergy sexual abuse.
The midterms vote was an epic rebuke of Silicon Valley.
The Lone Star State’s business-friendly playbook could be rewritten by the Democrats’ election sweep there.
What an amazing election night.
Every county in Texas shifted left, voting more Democratic than two years ago when President Trump was on the ballot.
Democrats will have a real chance to govern in Texas for the first time in about 25 years, and they’re facing pressure to deliver.
Gina Hinojosa, a Democrat, won the governor’s race in Texas on Tuesday, defeating Gov. Greg Abbott. She spoke with Lulu Garcia-Navarro in October about how it would feel if she won.
Democrats took five new seats for a total of 29, giving them a majority for the first time in years. The wins could expand state-level resistance to the Trump administration.
James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa, two Democratic state representatives, won their midterm races for senator and governor in Texas. Their victories ended decades of Republican dominance in the state.
What mattered most in these midterms?
Investors are already picking the winners and the losers after Democrats glided to a landslide victory in the midterm elections.
Democrats flipped several Senate seats, most of which had been held by Republicans since former President Obama was elected in 2008.
The party clinched the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, giving Democrats a powerful platform to counter President Trump.
Up for grabs: A Mediterranean-inspired house in Minneapolis, a bungalow in Fort Worth and a Craftsman in Atlanta.
The Democratic Party wrested control of Congress from Republicans in a wave of midterm victories as voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Trump.
Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House in a stunning rebuke of President Trump.
Voters from South Carolina to Ohio to Texas have elevated a new class of Democrats who could not be more different from one another.
For Republicans, Texas has long been a dependable political anchor. Now, it’s finally blue.
The woman who took down Greg Abbott concentrated on pocketbook issues, but voters’ opposition to Republican immigration policies was a tailwind.
For years, Ken Paxton turned scandal into a test of Republican loyalty, but his Senate defeat exposed the limits of a political strategy that helped reshape Texas.
Every Senate win holds important lessons for Democrats.
Mr. Pulido, a Latin Grammy Award-winning singer and conservative Democrat, ousted a Republican incumbent in a district President Trump won by 18 percentage points in 2024.
In a seismic shift that was once unthinkable, victories by James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa upended decades of statewide dominance in what had been the nation’s most populous conservative state.
See results for ballot measures around the country related to voting rights, social policy, redistricting and more.
James Talarico, a state lawmaker, beat Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general, after a bruising and costly campaign.
In the race for U.S. Senate in Texas, Republicans forfeited gains that President Trump made among Hispanic voters in 2024. Our election data reporter Christine Zhang explains.
Michelle Cottle and David French wonder if there’s a paradigm shift in American politics.
The New York Times spoke with voters in Michigan, Maine and Texas about why they voted the way they did.
Mail-in ballots are often slower to process in states with high volumes of them, and the count cannot begin until Election Day in some cases.
A midterm campaign marked by high engagement showed no signs of slowing on Election Day, though it was unclear whether either party had an advantage.
Could Texas elect its first Democratic Senator in decades? Our election data reporter Christine Zhang tells us what counties to watch in the competitive Texas Senate race.
The last time a Democrat won a statewide election in Texas, it was the 1990s. Our national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher explains why Democrats think this year could be different.
A Learjet 60 headed to the Bahamas from Austin, Texas, crashed on Sunday in Florida. All nine people aboard were killed, the authorities said.
In this episode of “The Call”, veteran political journalist Robert Draper, a Texas native who has written about the state’s politics for decades, calls the host Natalie Kitroeff to report what he’s seeing on the ground there with James Talarico’s Senate campaign. All eyes are on the competitive Texas Senate Race, the most expensive in the country, as the Democratic nominee Jame Talarico battles it out with the Republican nominee, former state attorney general Ken Paxton.
An ICE agent is facing state charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after hitting an undocumented Mexican immigrant with his car in Houston earlier this month.