By Editorial Staff Published September 21, 2026 Dallas City Hall may soon face its most significant structural reckoning in decades. Three of the city’s prominent former chief executives—Ron Kirk, Tom Leppert, and Mike Rawlings—are joining forces to mount a high-profile campaign to amend the Dallas City Charter and significantly expand the authority of future mayors. […]
A decades-old Texas mandate requires public high schools to help eligible students register to vote, yet teen voter registration across the state has plummeted to historic lows ahead of the upcoming election deadline. New figures from The Civics Center, a Los Angeles-based nonpartisan advocacy group that tracks youth voting access, show that only 29% of […]
A massive surge of national Republican money has upended the competitive Texas U.S. Senate race, wiping out Democratic nominee James Talarico’s months-long advertising dominance and setting up a bruising multi-million-dollar clash down the home stretch. Outside conservative groups have outspent Democrats by more than $70 million in September alone, aggressively countering what had previously been […]