On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Evan, Cassi and Matthew about the political year ahead with heated battles for the Texas House and the state’s 38 electoral votes.
Alexa Ura
Alexa Ura reported for The Texas Tribune from 2013 to 2023. She covered the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity, wealth, poverty and power and how they are shaping the future of Texas and Texans, in the long and short term. Alexa started at the Tribune as a reporting intern before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin and joining the staff full time. Originally from Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, she is a native Spanish speaker and is based in Austin.
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Texas Voting Rights
National Democrats jump into new lawsuit over Texas voter registration requirements
Sensing opportunity in 2020, the Texas Democratic Party and campaign arms for Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate are ramping up legal challenges to voting restrictions, this time arguing that the state is unconstitutionally rejecting voter registration applications with digital signatures.
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Demographics
Translators help Korean American voters in Harris County find their electoral voice
After years of relying on volunteer translators, Korean Americans voting in Houston last month received help from newly hired bilingual poll workers.
Posted inState Government
Appeals court overturns mandate for Texas to implement online voter registration for drivers
A lower court previously ruled that Texas was violating federal law by failing to register residents to vote when they updated their driver’s licenses online and ordered the state to implement its first system of online voter registration.
Posted inState Government
Election results from Texas’ largest county were delayed for hours. What happened?
All Harris County election results had to be driven to downtown Houston with police escorts after state election officials objected to the county’s practice of uploading memory cards through an encrypted network.
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Texas Voting Rights
Texas Democrats are suing the state over its move to end temporary voting locations
The lawsuit — filed with the Democratic campaign arms for the U.S. House and Senate — alleges that a change in state law that effectively ends the use of temporary or mobile early voting sites is unconstitutional because it discriminates against young voters.
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Politics
With a lame-duck speaker, Texas House confronts the work of the interim
For the next 14 months, the powerful committee chairs who called for House Speaker Dennis Bonnen to step down will be asked to carry out his will — and every decision the speaker makes will be viewed in the shadow of demise.
Posted in
Demographics
Texas considering whether to hand driver’s license, citizenship information to Census Bureau
The Texas Department of Public Safety received a request for the information earlier this month but has taken no action.
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Politics
“This is all confidential”: Key excerpts from secret recording of House Speaker Dennis Bonnen
In the hourlong conversation with Michael Quinn Sullivan, the leader of the Texas House is heard offering press credentials and asking for political support for challengers in the 2020 primaries.
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Texas Voting Rights
Texas ended temporary voting locations to curb abuse. Now rural and young voters are losing access.
A newly implemented change to election law is leaving a trail of shuttered early voting polling places across the state.
