After Hurricane Harvey and Winter Storm Uri, domestic violence calls dropped immediately because of outages but in the days that followed, they rose.
Elbert Wang
Elbert Wang was a fellow on the data visuals team. Prior to the Texas Tribune, he was a summer intern on the interactives team at the San Francisco Chronicle, and a data journalist at Dremio, a data-as-a-service company in Mountain View. He graduated from Brown in 2017 with degrees in computer science and classics.
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Texas saw the nation’s sixth-highest voter turnout increase, but still lagged behind most other states
Voter turnout in the 2018 Texas midterm elections increased by 18 percentage points compared with the previous midterms, according to data from the United States Elections Project.
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Look up Texas midterm turnout in your county against historic numbers
Tuesday’s elections fired up more Texas voters than any midterm in a generation. Turnout even eclipsed the 2000 presidential race in which Texans helped put George W. Bush — one of their own — in the White House.
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More than 4,884,528 Texans voted early in the midterm election
Early voter turnout in the 2018 midterms surpassed turnout from the 2012 presidential election in the 30 Texas counties where most registered voters in the state — 78 percent — live.
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Texas’ violent crime rate increased in 2017, while the number of police per resident shrank
Experts cautioned against saying the slight increase in crime was due to the decreased police-to-resident ratio.
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Demographics
Poverty in Texas drops to lowest levels in more than a decade
With poverty down and incomes up, 2017 proved to be a solid year of economic improvement for Texas even though Texans of color continue to be left behind.