Here's when and where you can vote and what's on the ballot in the November 2025 election in Nueces, San Patricio, Aransas and Kleberg counties.
Texas voters will consider a proposed constitutional amendment that would broaden the circumstances in which judges can deny bail to criminal
Karen Brooks Harper is a Mizzou Tiger who has covered Texas politics in and out of Austin for nearly 30 years. She's also covered the cartel wars along the TX-MX border, Congress in Mexico City, 3 presidential races, and 6 hurricanes. Raised on blues in the MS Delta, she lives in ATX with her son, her boxing gloves, and her guitar. In that order.
Voters in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Bexar County, within five miles of Joint Base San Antonio–Randolph, will vote on whether to annex certain property near the base and authorize the city to regulate land use in the area as recommended by the Joint Land Use Study.
The two leading Senate Democratic candidates have made it a point to spend time along the border early in the cycle, a sign of the region’s importance in 2026.
Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 4, 2025 election. Here's how to check your registration status and how to register.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion in a federal court asking a judge to rule the state's open primary system as unconstitutional, joining the Republican Party of Texas in their attempt to create closed primaries.
The Republicans are accused of acting against GOP values during the regular session, including supporting Speaker Dustin Burrows' successful bipartisan run against the party's favored candidate.
Proposition 4: This should be another easy call for voters in drought-prone Texas. If approved by voters, Proposition 4 would direct a portion of the state's sales tax revenue, up to $1 billion a year, to the Texas Water Development Board, which provides grants and loans for various projects.
The Texas GOP will vote Saturday to possibly bar some state legislators from running in the 2026 primary, despite repeated Texas Supreme Court rulings.
If Texas moved to a closed-primary system in which only registered party members could vote, millions of independent voters would be shut out of consequential primary
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going after an out-of-state man behind efforts to take over a barely populated but wildly wealthy West Texas county. Paxton announced on the Walton & Johnson show Monday morning that his office filed a lawsuit against Malcolm Tanner, who leads a self-directed movement called the "Melanated People of Power."