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Judith Zaffirini started at the bottom of the Texas Senate hierarchy in 1987, ranked number 30 out of 31 members. Thirty-seven years later, she ascended to the highest position when former Senator John Whitmire resigned on December 31, 2023, to become Houston's mayor. She became the first woman Dean of the Senate, succeeding 24 men who held the title since 1909. Senators look to the Dean for guidance on protocol, decorum, traditions, and knowledge. Zaffirini earned this disti

MAGA women have a look. Heavy foundation several shades too dark. Severe contouring that photographs like war paint. Aggressively blonde hair. Exaggerated lashes clumping together like spider legs. Lips pumped full of filler. Spray tans that stop at the jawline. This isn't accidental or incompetence. This isn't a regional beauty trends gone rogue. This is deliberate. This is look is optimized for one specific audience: conservative men. The phenomenon has earned its own Wikip

"My name is Sam Vale. In addition to owning and operating a private port of entry that the rent you pay could support all the others for 1,000 years, it is something we feel efficiencies at the ports are of utmost importance to our border security." Samuel F. Vale delivered those words in 2009 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Chuck Schumer had invited him to testify about securing America's borders and points of entry. Vale spoke with authority about customs po

There are moments when words feel too fragile to hold the truth. When a life is taken so suddenly, so publicly, language seems to break under the weight of it. That’s what happened on a Minnesota street, where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed before witnesses, cameras, and a world that already feels too familiar with scenes like this. To call it an act of violence feels too small. To call it shocking feels dishonest, because there’s nothing new about this kind of loss, only

ICE agents dined at a family-run Mexican restaurant in small-town Minnesota, paid their bill, then returned hours later to detain three hardworking employees. The January 14 operation at El Tapatio in Willmar illustrates the expanding reach of immigration enforcement under President Trump's intensified crackdown. Beyond the immediate arrests, it affects the very contributions of workers who sustain our communities, tamale wrappers, salsa stirrers, and table bussers whose labo

Federal lawsuits are piling up against ICE agents, Customs and Border Protection, and Kristi Noem. The constitutional violations aren't ambiguous. Quick civics refresher for anyone who slept through high school: The Fourth Amendment says the government can't search you, seize you, or break into your house without a warrant signed by a judge. Not a suggestion. Not a guideline. A constitutional requirement. The ACLU just filed a federal class action in Minnesota. The defendants

Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar appeared in federal court Thursday to answer charges that he transformed his law enforcement office into a personal profit center during the pandemic. The five-term sheriff faces allegations of conspiracy, theft of federal funds, and money laundering stemming from a scheme prosecutors say ran for more than two years. According to federal prosecutors, Cuellar and his assistant chief, Alejandro Gutierrez, launched Disinfect Pro Master in April

Rio Grande City Grulla ISD spent Wednesday patting itself on the back for fixing problems it should have addressed years ago. Superintendent Guadalupe Garza delivered what the district branded as a "state of the district" address, chronicling twelve months of tackling basic infrastructure failures that accumulated under previous leadership. Garza opened with calculated bluntness. "One year ago, Rio Grande City Grulla ISD began a reset, not with slogans, not with excuses, but

The 25th Amendment has resurfaced in political discourse with the fervor of a bad penny, and this time the calls are coming from inside the Democratic house. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts sparked the latest round, posting a terse directive to social media after Trump sent a text message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The message linked Trump's aggressive pursuit of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump's message to Støre read: "Consi

Beto O'Rourke confirmed he hasn't endorsed a candidate in the Texas Democratic Senate primary between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett. The clarification came during an interview with the Houston Chronicle's Texas Take podcast, where O'Rourke framed his current neutrality as respect for democratic process rather than personal preference. "No, no. Look, we're the party that says it believes in democracy and self-government and the ability for people to freely and fairly cho

President Trump stood in the White House briefing room Tuesday, marking his first anniversary back in office, and dropped a statement that was resounding. While defending his administration's aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, he noted that Border Patrol agents are predominantly Hispanic. According to Customs and Border Protection data, over half of Border Patrol agents serving on the southern border identify as Hispanic. Applications surged 70 percen

A data broker called Gravy Analytics compiled a list of 1,238 applications that feed location data into its surveillance apparatus. The spreadsheet, obtained by 404 Media and Wired through a Freedom of Information Act request, exposes the mundane reality of modern surveillance infrastructure. Jigsaw puzzles, weather apps, and Muslim prayer time calculators all participate in the same data harvesting operation that helps government agencies track American citizens without warr

On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, the courtroom erupted when Velma Lisa Duran, sister of slain teacher Irma Garcia, snapped. "My sister went into the fatal funnel," Duran shouted. "She did it. Not you!" Her outburst interrupted testimony about the "fatal funnel"—law enforcement jargon for the first bodies through a door when bullets are flying. The defendant, former school resource officer Adrian Gonzales, faces 29 counts of child endangerment. Prosecutors argue he abandoned his

Congress just authorized federal agents to examine the naked bodies of children. Alone. Without their parents. They're calling it the Kayla Hamilton Act. H.R. 4371 passed the House 225-201 on Monday. Seven Democrats handed Republicans the margin they needed. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Don Davis of North Carolina, Laura Gillen of New York, Jared Golden of Maine, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Adam Gray of California, and Marie Glusenkamp Perez of Washington decided invasive body exam

Greg Abbott has never faced a challenge quite like Gina Hinojosa. First, she's Mexican-American. Second, she's a woman. And even though he easily won against Wendy Davis, this candidate has something Davis didn't: she's puro 956. The Brownsville native and five-term state representative stopped by Caro's Restaurant in Rio Grande City on Monday to talk with local voters about her campaign. The event drew family and local Democratic officials who turned out to support her candi

The Department of Health and Human Services issued a directive in November 2025 that places Head Start programs in direct conflict with federal law. A Wisconsin program director submitted a routine funding renewal request on September 30. On November 19, she received two emails from HHS containing a six-page list of nearly 200 prohibited words and phrases. The forbidden terminology includes "disability," "women," "tribal," "accessible," "belong," "Black," "female," "minority,

Senator Mark Kelly, the combat-tested Navy captain turned Arizona senator, has launched a blistering 46-page federal lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon, exposing what can only be described as a brazen, vindictive power grab by the Trump administration. This isn't justice—it's a political hit job, a chilling warning shot fired across the bow of any veteran or lawmaker daring to speak truth to power. In a move reeking of authoritarian overreach, Heg

The conversation around feminism has deteriorated into something genuinely stupid. Women bicker over dinner bills while the point sails right past them. Paying half on a date has absolutely nothing to do with equal rights. That's not activism. That's just bad math pretending to be principles. Feminism operates on a scale far beyond who picks up the tab at Olive Garden. The movement rests on one straightforward idea: women deserve the same rights as men. Not approximations. No

Vicente Ventura Aguilar spent his last documented moments doing something completely ordinary. The 44-year-old was moving to music with friends on a South Los Angeles street corner near a strip mall. Security cameras caught him at 8:40 on an October morning, laughing and dancing. Five minutes changed everything. Federal immigration agents in masks flooded the corner. They deployed some kind of spray. Multiple people got arrested. Ventura became one of them. What happened next

Judge Baldemar Garza issued a direct response to challenger Abel Villarreal Jr.'s campaign attacks, using a social media video to defend his record and question his opponent's reliability. The 229th District Court judge framed his rebuttal around a lesson from his mother. "My mother taught me a lesson I carry every day," Garza began in a video ad. "No puedes tapar el sol con un dedo. You cannot cover the truth with a single finger." The judge addressed criticism about his war