Texas nationalist leader Daniel Miller said his group was seeking "political, cultural and economic independence" for the state.
The signs of a political shift in the reliably blue counties that line Texas’s southern border with Mexico had been coming. Local GOP offices were emerging in places like Starr County that had not voted for a Republican for president in a century.
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Republican judges won in 25 out of 26 contested races throughout the state in a show of the party’s broader strength up and down Tuesday’s ballot.
Donald Trump outperformed his 2020 campaign in Central Texas on his way to winning the state for the third consecutive presidential election.
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Republicans had a big night in South Texas, flipping predominately Hispanic counties along the US-Mexico border.
A historic 18.6 million Texans were registered to vote in the 2024 election, and 61% cast ballots, a nearly 6% drop from the 2020 presidential race.
Most U.S. counties shifted at least a little bit to the right on Election Day compared to 2020, but of the 15 that have lurched the farthest over the past two presidential elections, 14 are majority Hispanic or Latino. Thirteen of those are in Texas, and the 14th is Florida’s Miami-Dade, one of the most populous counties in the country.
Donald Trump was defeating Harris in Texas with about 56% of the vote in unofficial returns, as the state remains red.