Backstabber Watch

While Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott was nowhere to be found — because he was off on a nine-day trip across South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

The local economy of Eagle Pass, Texas was all set to rake in a huge financial windfall this weekend, when the town was expected to play host to tens of thousands of visitors eager to be the first in the U.S. to see Monday's solar eclipse. Instead...

Governor Abbott is facing calls to deploy the National Guard as wildfires rage in Texas.

Texas residents are facing higher property taxes despite the recently introduced relief package, and they blame Abbott for it.

Local leaders in Texas' increasingly progressive major cities were joined by workers' rights advocates and other pro-democracy groups on Thursday as they applauded a district court judge's ruling that a Republican-authored law aimed at superseding local regulations is unconstitutional...

Four days after an ice storm left hundreds of thousands of Texans without power, Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for seven counties impacted by the severe weather. Subfreezing temperatures combined with rain to produce a nasty storm that coated much of the Texas Hill Country in ice...

The Texas Republican Party is in the middle of a purge of its own membership, at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott — and out-of-state donors, according to a new report. The Texas Republican governor, after a group of state legislators defied him over private school voucher funding, is mounting

Texas Governor Greg Abbott joked about building a wall around Austin because of the city's "values."

Texas' plans to start a controversial border policy has suddenly been halted.

After legislators passed laws banning diversity initiatives and targeting tenure at state universities, more than a quarter of the 1,900 Texas professors surveyed by faculty associations said they plan to look for positions out of state.

A Texas judge on Wednesday ruled that a law championed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) limiting the ability of local communities to pass their own ordinances is unconstitutional, Insider reports. 

Hundreds of thousands of businesses and households across Central and East Texas lost power for much of Wednesday, as utility crews scrambled to fix power lines downed by freezing rain and fallen trees.