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Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Texas Legislature 2023
Texas lawmakers target property taxes, election fraud and transgender people in new legislation ahead of 2023 session
Thousands of bills are expected to be filed for the legislative session that begins in January. Lawmakers are expected to have a budget surplus when they return to Austin.
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Texas 2022 Elections
Republicans rebounded in some suburban counties that had been drifting blue
After seeing Democrats gain momentum in suburbs of Houston and Dallas, Republicans succeeded in reclaiming ground this election. But the GOP is still a long way from returning to pre-Trump support, even in ruby red counties.
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Texas 2022 Elections
For the first time, Texas voters send Muslims and openly gay Black men to Legislature
Voters elected Christian Manuel Hayes to House District 22 in Beaumont, Venton Jones to HD-100 in Dallas, Salman Bhojani to HD-92 in Tarrant County and Suleman Lalani to HD-76 in Fort Bend County.
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Demographics
Rural Texas is the state’s foundation. And it’s in jeopardy.
Downtowns are deserted, hospitals are closing, teachers are leaving. Every part of life in rural Texas is harder — but it’s worth saving.
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Texas 2022 Elections
LGBTQ Texans voting with marriage, worker protections and trans rights in mind
The Texas Tribune spoke with LGBTQ voters, the parents of queer youth and advocates from across the state about what’s at stake for them this November.
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Texas 2022 Elections
An evangelical GOP congressional candidate in Texas wrote a novel about Anne Frank finding Jesus
Johnny Teague, an evangelical pastor and business owner who won his primary in March, authored “The Lost Diary of Anne Frank,” a novel in which Frank seems to embrace Christianity just before she is murdered by the Nazis.
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Texas 2022 Elections
Republican Mayra Flores rejected from all-Democratic Hispanic caucus
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus bylaws explicitly block Republicans from joining due to major policy differences between members in the past.
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Demographics
Inside a bus, East Texans get the health care they can’t afford or find anywhere else
Access to health care is limited in rural Texas. The mobile clinic operated by Beaumont-based TAN Healthcare aims to close that gap.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: New journalism fellowship for HBCU students
Fellowships will be available in spring, summer and fall for Texas graduate and undergraduate students at historically Black colleges and universities.