Ken Paxton asked a judge to order Mr. Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against Donald J. Trump, to preserve his records and avoid “obstruction of accountability.”

The Texas Secretary of State's Office has several guidelines for how voted ballots should be stored after an election to ensure they are secured.

For many of the blue-collar Latino men in and around an Austin Home Depot on the day after the 2024 election, Donald Trump made sense.

If Texas Democrats were looking for silver linings among the thunderhead clouds that rained down upon them Tuesday, here's one: The last time Donald Trump won the White House, they came out pretty well in the midterm election two years later. Everybody ...

Former President Donald Trump clinched the presidency against Vice President Kamala Harris early Wednesday morning, having already delivered a speech touting his campaign's success hours earlier. In Texas,

Democrat Colin Allred leads incumbent Republican Ted Cruz in the race for U.S. Senate. Allred, a U.S. representative from Dallas, has 49.9% of the vote to Cruz’s 48.1% with 48% of the vote counted, according to The Associated Press.

On Nov. 5, Texas voters will choose the next president, a U.S. Senator, and candidates for federal, state, and local offices. Follow our live updates.

In the end, it wasn’t close at all. On election night, Texans handed sweeping victories to the Republican Party that controls the state, and in particular its ascendant MAGA faction. As Vice

Polling before the election showed Cruz 1 point ahead of Allred, indicating it could be one of the closest races in the country.

In keeping his seat, he dashed rising hopes among some Democrats that years of demographic changes and urbanization could start to flip the state.

Cruz retained his seat, beating back Colin Allred and keeping alive Texas’ streak of not electing a Democratic Senator in more than 30 years.

View live results of the Texas presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.