On Thursday, the jostling to hold the speaker’s gavel resumed with insurgent candidate Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, saying ...

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.

A group of Republicans who oppose Texas House Speaker Dave Phelan are reportedly coalescing around state Rep. David Cook for ...

In the most concerted attack to date on Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan from within the GOP House ranks, 48 representatives and nominees for House districts selected Rep. David Cook as ...

“The speaker’s race is over with ... Representative John Smithee decided to bow out: Representative David Cook—a nondescript rank-and-filer from the Fort Worth suburb of Mansfield ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday declared private school voucher legislation his top issue for the legislative session ...

On Thursday, the jostling to hold the speaker’s gavel resumed with insurgent candidate Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, saying ...

But the Republicans who were elected are more conservative as a whole and more and more supportive of Texas Gov. Greg ...

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

Both the Republican and Democratic registrars of voters in Torrington agreed that there were so many problems that a recount ...