The Texas Tribune’s politics team has compiled five of the top stories we're watching this year, when voters will have their first chance to make their opinions known on the events of 2025.

SCOTUS will decide on many hot button, cultural issues in 2026 including on transgender athletes in sports and if birthright ...

Schools, buffeted by post-pandemic politics, have become less strict in enforcing vaccination mandates, The Post found. Some ...

The Trump administration is moving to narrow which wetlands qualify for federal protection. But New Jersey’s stricter legal ...

Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado's Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over ...

The Left crossed a rubicon normalizing political violence in 2025, from Tesla attacks to the Charlie Kirk assassination to ...

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has warned it will respond immediately to any military movements of separatists backed by ...

As the U.S. Supreme Court pulls back on gerrymandering, state courts may decide the fate of new congressional maps.

At least two major states are expected to try to enact new congressional maps — and a looming Supreme Court decision could ...

State educators also “have a right to provide to parents accurate information about a child’s gender identity,” the ruling ...

Opponents of a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit asking a court to suspend the districts for the 2026 elections.

Missouri is trying to illegally enact a gerrymandered congressional map in violation of a century of constitutional precedent.