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Beto O'Rourke speaks to Texas Organizing Project volunteers preparing to canvass a neighborhood in West Dallas Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The former congressman and senatorial candidate is driving an effort to gather voter support to stop Texas' SB7 voting legislation. As politicians from Austin to Washington battle over how to run elections, many voters are disconnected from the fight. While both sides have a passionate base of voters intensely dialed in on the issue, a disengaged middle is baffled at the attention. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Voting debate roils Washington but leaves many voters cold

By Nicholas Riccardi Jun. 19, 2021 12:14 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Jun. 07, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Houston Chronicle. June 3, 2021. Editorial: Failure to lead - the 2021 Texas Legislature in a nutshell If there were...

Nevada governor 'optimistic' after legislative session ends

By Sam Metz Jun. 02, 2021 05:47 PM EDT
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Steve Sisolak said he's proud of what Nevada lawmakers accomplished during the legislative session that ended this week and...

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press Jun. 02, 2021 01:03 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 31 The Wall Street Journal on ‘melodrama’ in Texas...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press May. 31, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
San Antonio Express-News. May 30, 2021. Editorial: Let’s honor all our fallen: soldiers and virus victims After a year...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press May. 10, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Austin American-Statesman. May 7, 2021. Editorial: Texas GOP lawmakers trust you with a gun — but not with the vote ...

State Rep. Celia Israel, D-Austin, listens to fellow lawmakers in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol as they wait to hear debate on voter legislation in Austin, Texas, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Texas GOP's voting restriction bill passes House

By Acacia Coronado May. 06, 2021 11:57 PM EDT

People gather outside the House Chamber at the Capitol in Austin on Thursday May 6, 2021, to protest House Bill 6, a bill that would create new election-related crimes, boost penalties for existing crimes and raise the profile of partisan poll watchers. (Jay Janner /Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Some Republicans worry voting limits will hurt the GOP, too

By Christina A. Cassidy And Ryan J. Foley May. 06, 2021 04:10 PM EDT

Houston area officials at odds with chamber on voting bills

By Juan A. Lozano May. 05, 2021 06:46 PM EDT
HOUSTON (AP) — The top two elected officials in the Houston area on Wednesday expressed rare public criticism of the region’s largest chamber of commerce and...

FILE - In this April 21, 2021, file photo, people opposed to Texas voter bills HB6 and SB7 hold signs during a news conference hosted by Texas Rising Action on the steps of the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Republican lawmakers around the country are pressing ahead with efforts to tighten voting laws, despite growing warnings from business leaders that the measures could harm democracy and the economic climate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills

By Acacia Coronado And Bill Barrow May. 05, 2021 01:12 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2021, file photo, people opposed to Texas voter bills HB6 and SB7 hold signs during a news conference hosted by Texas Rising Action on the steps of the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Republican lawmakers around the country are pressing ahead with efforts to tighten voting laws, despite growing warnings from business leaders that the measures could harm democracy and the economic climate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills

By Acacia Coronado And Bill Barrow May. 04, 2021 03:51 PM EDT

Sign supporting various candidates sit outside an early voting location Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Mansfield, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
House runoff in Texas set between GOP's Wright, Ellzey

May. 02, 2021 04:03 PM EDT

Volunteer Al Green looks at his phone as he takes a break from holding a sign supporting his candidate in a local election outside an early voting location Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Mansfield, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Republican Susan Wright makes US House runoff in Texas

By Paul J. Weber May. 01, 2021 10:58 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Apr. 26, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Austin American-Statesman. April 24, 2021. Editorial: Lawmakers must pick up where Chauvin’s jury left off The jury did...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Apr. 19, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Houston Chronicle. April 14, 2021. Editorial: Texas lawmakers' response to flood of gun deaths? Make it easier to own guns ...

FILE — In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo a car leaves a drive-thru voting site on Election Day in Houston. As Texas moves ahead with a push to tighten voting laws, Republican lawmakers have zeroed in on Houston and surrounding Harris County. The effort is one of the clearest examples of how the GOP's nationwide campaign to impose new voting restrictions can target Democrats, even as they insist the measures are not partisan. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
In Texas, GOP voting bills zero in on Democratic Houston

By Paul J. Weber Apr. 15, 2021 03:20 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 14, 2020 file photo, a voter, right, shows her identification to a Harris County election clerk before voting, in Houston. Texas Republicans advanced a slate of proposed new voting restrictions Thursday, April 1, 2021, that would reduce options to cast ballots, limit polling hours and hand more power to partisan poll watchers. All those efforts are rolled into a single bill that cleared the GOP-controlled state Senate — a key marker in a campaign by Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, to impose new restrictive measures over elections in America's biggest red state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Corporate criticism of GOP-led voting bills spreads to Texas

By Paul J. Weber Apr. 01, 2021 07:17 PM EDT

Former Democratic congressman Beto O'Rourke speaks against new proposed voting restrictions at the Texas Capitol on Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Acacia Coronado)
Health concerns block some Texans from testifying on voting

By Acacia Coronado Mar. 25, 2021 11:44 PM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, June 8, 2020, file photo, local residents and alumni of Jack Yates High School take part in a candlelight vigil to honor George Floyd, in Houston. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis Police officers on May 25. As the trial surrounding the death of Floyd begins in Minneapolis, a sweeping package of police reforms in his native Texas has scarce signs of early support within the state’s GOP majority. The “George Floyd Act” was scheduled to get its first hearing in the Texas Capitol on Thursday, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Reforms pushed in Texas as trial nears in George Floyd death

By Paul J. Weber Mar. 25, 2021 12:06 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Mar. 22, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
San Antonio Express-News. March 19, 2021. Editorial: No solutions for border in political posturing As politicians hurl...