Neither Speaker Dade Phelan, nor his current opponent Rep. David Cook, have enough public support yet from the GOP caucus to ...

Despite running unopposed in Texas House District 21, Speaker of the House Dade Phelan could face a challenger from his own ...

With Election Day in the past, the race for Texas House speaker is heating up as the Republican incumbent tries to hold onto ...

The new class of Republican lawmakers who will head to Austin in January could also spell trouble for current House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont). Several Republicans have already said they ...

The outcome bolsters Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been pushing to stack the Legislature with Republicans supportive of his ...

Across a dozen of the most competitive House races, Republicans raked in more than $11 million over the last month, compared ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan escaped a May primary runoff defeat by the skin of his teeth, but the Beaumont Republican’s ...

McLaughlin, who led the city through the aftermath of the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, defeated ...

With their success at the polls on Tuesday, Texas Republicans are poised to run the table in the Legislature. But internal fights are probably ahead.

House Speaker Dade Phelan, under fire for leading the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, is already being challenged by fellow Republican Rep. David Cook. Abbott wrote online that there ...