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Democratic Texas State Senator John Whitmire defeated Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to win the nonpartisan election for Houston's mayor. -
Houston, the fourth largest U.S. city, will have a runoff election between longtime Democratic State Senator John Whitmire and Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee -
Harris County in Texas is home to Houston, and has tended to vote blue in the last decade. Republican state lawmakers recently passed bills that target how elections are run there.
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In Texas, the National Rifle Association meets in Houston as families in Uvalde are mourning children slain in a massacre earlier this week.
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Voters head to the polls in Texas for the state's primary in the first midterm election of 2022. A governor's race is on the ballot, as is the second-largest congressional delegation in the U.S.
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The Asian population in Fort Bend County is Texas' largest. When the Texas Legislature met to redraw congressional maps, many Asian Americans hoped it would reflect that. That didn't happen.
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Harris County, which includes Houston, has more than 4.7 million people. Many of the voting rights innovations installed last year are at risk of being eliminated by the Republican-led legislature. -
The Texas House Democratic Caucus has confirmed that Democrats have fled the state in an effort to block Republican voting restrictions from advancing in a special legislative session.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that he would restrict the number of ballot drop boxes to one per county. The move comes even as more people are likely to vote by mail due to the pandemic.
