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In new web videos released today, both gubernatorial campaigns are accusing the other of failing to bring anything to the table that benefits Texas.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has shuffled the chairs in the Texas Senate.

The senator says Kagan has not made clear she would "protect the fundamental rights written in our constitution."

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Don't look now, but things just got substantive in the governor's race.

After the exodus of at least half a dozen employees and swirling questions about its lack of enforcement against unscrupulous doctors, the Division of Workers' Compensation has put a new man in charge of the investigations. The former executive director of the Texas Medical Board, Dr. Donald Patrick, started Monday.

Texans overwhelmingly reject the way the State Board of Education sets requirements for textbooks and curriculum, which ignited a nationwide controversy earlier this year, according to a statewide survey the Texas Freedom Network released today.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit Texas’ border with Mexico on Thursday when she meets with customs officials and local law enforcement in Laredo.

What do college students and preschoolers have in common?

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The Texas heat is proving too much for anything chicken-suit-related at the moment.

Gov. Rick Perry chats with the FOX Business Network's Neil Cavuto about his latest poll numbers, the moratorium on deep water drilling and the cancellation of a Border Governors' Conference that was going to take place in Arizona, until Mexican governors boycotted the meeting.

This evening, state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, sat in a room with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White and talked into a camera. Around the state, Texans were welcomed to watch online and submit questions.

Challenger Jason Isaac, after raising nothing last year, garnered about $169,000 in six months to help him unseat Democratic incumbent state Rep. Partick Rose, D-Dripping Springs.

A clip of U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, in which he apparently flares up at a constituent questioning him on health care, is making the rounds in the conservative blogosphere.