Amanda K. Edwards says the stakes are high as she campaigns to represent Texas District-18, with a special election set for November 4th following the deaths of the last two leaders.

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee on Thursday won the endorsement of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) in the ...

The power to schedule special elections is a gift to governors intent on doing political mischief.

Whitmire rallied support from progressive and conservative voters in his battle to sit at the city's helm, handily defeating the late congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Houston's mayor is nonpartisan; ...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that Nov. 4 will be the date of the special election for the ...

Gov. Abbott cited Harris County election officials’ failures as the reason why he pushed back the election to fill the late ...

Some of the party’s most revered members are octogenarians facing primary challenges from a younger generation.

You have our deepest sympathies. That’s because Scudder is the newly elected chair of the Texas Democratic Party. He inherits ...

"When I was younger, we had Astroworld," one Houstonian said. "Now that my kids are growing, I would like to see the same ...

A Houston superintendent said he wanted to "lynch" a mayor and CenterPoint Energy. Now, a Texas bishop and the NAACP want him ...

A Turning Point for the GOP** In a striking display of vulnerability, the Democratic Party faces a crisis exacerbated by its aging leade ...

Houston Mayor John Whitmire was met with boos from cyclists at the 18th annual Tour de Houston on Sunday, as tensions ...