Texas's Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday, saying the federal government was not providing the help it needed in assessing the citizenship status of some of its registered voters.

Early voting in Texas for the 2024 election got off to a hot start Monday, with more than 840,000 people casting their ballots in person statewide. Preliminary data from the Texas Secretary of State's office shows that 843,130 people voted early on Monday, which comes out to over 4.5% of registered voters.

Record numbers of Texans turned out Monday for the first day of early voting — numbers that were particularly concentrated in several of the state’s blue-leaning urban and suburban counties. With national attention drawn to the close race between incumbent Texas Sen.

Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a Friday rally in Houston intended to highlight the consequences of Texas’ near-total abortion ban.

The deadline to apply for a ballot by mail is Oct. 25. Remember, it must be received by this date, not just postmarked. To apply for a mail-in ballot, print the form from the Texas Secretary of State website and mail it to the early voting clerk in your county.

Democrats in Texas will once again wait on Election Day to find out whether this is the year they can win a statewide race after three decades of losing to Republicans.

The vice president will head to Houston on Friday, hoping to use the issue to peel moderate voters away from Donald J. Trump, who is almost certain to win the state.

It will be the vice president's first stop in Texas since July, and a rare campaign visit for a presidential contender this close to Election Day.

Ann Harris Bennett, who has oversight over voter registrations in the most populous county in Texas, has only sent 18 emails from her work account this year.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will travel to Texas on Friday for an abortion-rights event as Democrats' hopes rise they can win a Senate seat in the Republican stronghold, according to a senior Harris campaign official.

Harris will speak at an event alongside Texas women who have had to navigate pregnancy complications under the state’s restrictive abortion law.