Next year will feature President-elect Donald Trump’s America First agenda and a Texas legislative session that could ...

The Texas Legislature and President-elect Donald Trump will highlight the 2025 political drama in Texas and nationwide.

With Dade Phelan bowing out of the race for Speaker of the state House, the GOP caucus has split between Dustin Burrows and ...

Republicans in the Texas House could feud for weeks over whom to choose as the next speaker. But two Longview-area Republican ...

Republicans who vote against party leaders’ preferred candidate could be barred from running in primaries. Lawsuits could ...

Five years after weathering a major Republican House leadership controversy, Burrows finds himself at the center of another ...

With campaign-style ad and op-ed write-ups, the two factions in the race for Texas House speaker spotlight Republican Party divisions.

The once-private campaign for who will run the Texas House has become increasing public, and increasingly bitter.

In the long-running war inside the Texas G.O.P., Dade Phelan survived a primary against a Trump-backed novice. But his ...

"The majority party rules, but the minority party has their voice heard," Texas House speaker candidate Dustin Burrows says.

Phelan has been the house speaker in Texas for nearly four years, starting his term in January 2021. Republican State Rep. Dustin Burrows, and top ally of Phelan, has filed paperwork to run for ...

House Speaker Dade Phelan announced he is dropping his bid for another term leading the lower chamber, amid bruising ...