Lone Star Politics

A stand-off to be the third most powerful person in the State of Texas is ongoing after a chaotic weekend.

ERCOT warns of a threat of blackouts as temperatures dip, how the Texas power grid is looking this winter, and the battle for Texas House speaker heats up, plus a conversation with Republican State Senator Brandon Creighton about the effort to overhaul K-12 education in Texas. NBC 5’s Phil Prazan and Gromer Jeffers with The Dallas Morning New...

Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, said Friday he will not seek a third term.

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, the leader of the Texas Senate, said he will move to ban all forms of THC people can consume across the state.

Houston-area Republican Valoree Swanson filed House Bill 1476 ahead of next year’s legislative session.

The Texas House Republicans will pick their candidate for Speaker. The House Democrats will vote for their party chairman.

The Texas House is one of the last remaining bipartisan coalitions in the country, where Republicans and Democrats govern together. This week, we will see a challenge to that tradition in both parties. NBC 5 political reporter Phil Prazan reports on these key votes.

This week, a longtime North Texas election administrator retires. Then, a North Texas Democrat challenges the leadership in his own caucus. plus, Texas is becoming ground zero for the Trump administration. NBC 5’s Phil Prazan brings you Lone Star Politics.

The days of students taking their cell phones to class may soon be coming to an end. Lawmakers return to Austin in January when they will debate banning cell phones in public schools.

Two more North Texans have been picked to be members of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet including Scott Turner and Brooke Rollins.

On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott and Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, will meet with incoming “border czar” Tom Homan.

Texas lawmakers filed hundreds of bills before the next session starts in January, including one to take cell phones out of students hands across the state. The cryptocurrency industry put lots of money into the election, so what does the industry want in return? Plus voting problems during the 2024 election.

Lawmakers may change the state’s anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion law to rid public universities of degrees and curricula that don’t translate into jobs after college.