Paxton’s latest tour is the continuation of his efforts in the past year to get political revenge on House Republicans who ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is weighing a primary challenge to Sen. John Cornyn (R) in what could be the next ...

The ethics commission of the State Bar of Texas had sued Paxton for making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 ...

Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power struggle within the Republican Party that came down to an extraordinary floor ...

The veteran president of the Texas Senate and the new speaker of the House did not start out on the same page.

Dustin Burrows (R) to lead the chamber in a blow to the rising far-right wing of the party, defeating a candidate supported by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and other top state figures.

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas GOP Chairman ... GOP Caucus last month over Representative Dustin Burrows of Lubbock. Paxton told reporters grassroots Republicans want ...

Dustin Burrows as their new speaker after a month ... the fight had turned into a statewide campaign as Attorney General Ken Paxton toured the state, promising that any House Republican who ...

Since then, the vast majority of House speakers have been elected by acclamation or with more than 140 votes. Even Rep. Dade Phelan, whom hard-right Republicans forced from seeking a third term, ...

A contentious vote Tuesday ended a months-long battle that divided Texas lawmakers. Lubbock Republican State Rep. Dustin Burrows won the vote for House Speaker. But some of his opponents believe ...

Dustin Burrows was elected as Speaker of the House ... Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Donald Trump Jr. Phelan, who dropped out of the Speaker race, was among the first people to ...

Lubbock Republican state Rep. Dustin Burrows clinched the Texas House speakership Tuesday in the culmination of an unusually long and unusually public mudfight for the role.