| 2026-11-02 | GEO Announces ICE Deal Through the City of Big Spring, Texas, Activating a 2,329-Bed Complex
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-29 | DHS Announces 'Lone Star Mission': 4,170 ICE Arrests Across Texas, Oct. 19-29
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-10-27 | Potter County GOP Sues in Amarillo to Bar Texas Certification Until Every Ballot Is Hand Counted
3 src Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Common Cause | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Texas AG Paxton Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Under the State's Deceptive Trade Practices Act Over ChatGPT Safety Claims
1 src Ken Paxton · OpenAI · Sam Altman | | reported |
| 2026-10-20 | Eyes on ICE Relays Marshall Project, 19th Reporting on Bluebonnet Pregnant Detainees and ICE Miscarriage Data
6 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Management and Training Corporation (MTC) · DHS Office of Inspector General | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-19 | ProPublica Details Paxton's Anti-Abortion Legal Strategies and Their Spread Beyond Texas
1 src Ken Paxton · James Talarico · ProPublica | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-19 | U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz Posts Video as Texas Early Voting Gets Underway Warning Federal Election Law Violators in the Southern District
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | Judge Cardone's Memorandum Opinion Rests the Big Bend Wall Injunction on the Major Questions Doctrine
6 src Center for Biological Diversity · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | One of Two Detainees in the ICE SUV Identified as Witness; DA Seeks Statements and Calls Both Material Witnesses
2 src Sean Teare · Harris County District Attorney · Miguel Parra-Hernandez · FIEL Houston | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | The 19th and Marshall Project: Pregnant Detainee Held Six Months at Bluebonnet Describes Undercooked Food; Her Records Show Gestational Diabetes
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Management and Training Corporation (MTC) · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-13 | City of San Antonio Sues DHS and ICE in Federal Court Under NEPA and the APA to Halt the East Side Warehouse Detention Conversion
2 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Markwayne Mullin · David Venturella | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-13 | Harris County DA Opens Criminal Investigation of ICE Vehicle Strike, Says It Was Intentional
9 src Sean Teare · Harris County District Attorney · Miguel Parra-Hernandez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-13 | Tarrant County, Texas District Judge Denies Temporary Injunction That Would Have Kept 92 Polling Locations Open for the Midterms
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-10 | ICE Agent Strikes Miguel Parra-Hernandez With a Vehicle in Houston Pursuit; Sheriff and ICE Give Different Accounts
2 src Miguel Parra-Hernandez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · FIEL Houston | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-09 | LWV Texas and MOVE Texas Sue SOS and DPS in Bexar County (Filed Oct 9): Petition Pleads 'Almost 600,000' DPS Online Voter Registrations Reached Counties Late, Some From Oct 2025, as Breach of the 2021 Stringer II Settlement; State Says Backlog Cleared
3 src | | reported |
| 2026-10-02 | Federal Judge Enjoins Border Wall Construction in Texas' Big Bend Sector and Stays the Big Bend Waivers
5 src Center for Biological Diversity · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-30 | ICE ERO Memo Limits Vehicle Stops to Trained Officers and Bars Pursuits, as Reported; Text Not Public
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | DOJ Charges Garces Perez With Assaulting a Federal Officer; DHS's Official Account of the Stop and CBP One Dispute Become Public
6 src Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-28 | San Antonio East Side Opponents Press City to Challenge Planned $66.1M ICE Detention Center
1 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-28 | Texas Tribune Identifies ICE Agent Gregory Feathers as Shooter of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; Harris County Grand Jury Active
3 src Lorenzo Salgado Araujo · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Harris County District Attorney · Sean Teare | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-26 | Austin City Council Candidate Misael Ramos Arrested on Riot Charge Tied to ICE-Shooting Protest
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Cattle Industry Groups Say ICE Operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Cut Fed-Cattle Slaughter Up to 16% in a Day
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | House Homeland Security Committee Democrats Demand Records, Set Oct. 1 Preservation Deadline Over Garces Perez Shooting
3 src Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · Bennie G. Thompson · Markwayne Mullin · David Venturella · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | NYT Publishes Audio of Paxton Telling Donors Trump's Dallas Convention 'Dropped Our Numbers'
2 src Ken Paxton · Donald Trump · James Talarico | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Votebeat: Texas Counties Receiving Tens of Thousands of Unprocessed Voter Registration Applications After a DPS Error, Some Dating to October 2025
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-09-21 | Texas Gov. Abbott Directs TCEQ to Halt All Data Center Permits Until ERCOT and TWDB Audits Are Complete
2 src Greg Abbott · ERCOT · Public Utility Commission of Texas | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-20 | ICE Agent Shoots Venezuelan Delivery Driver in Austin; HSI and FBI Investigate, Travis County DA Seeks Independent Probe
3 src Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | Texas SOS Refers 117 Cases to the AG and Concedes 578 of 2,724 SAVE-Flagged Voters Proved Citizenship
1 src Texas Secretary of State | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-27 | KSAT Reports ICE Awarded GardaWorld $17.3 Million for East Side San Antonio Warehouse Conversion; USAspending Now Lists $61,829,037.54 Obligated and $1,008,135,768.12 Potential
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GardaWorld Federal Services · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Brazos County Transfers RELLIS Data Center Abatement to ThisWay Global, Returning Half the Value to Tax Rolls
2 src Greg Abbott | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Bell County, TX Tables Data-Center Abatement Repeal as Judge Blackburn Warns It Would Forfeit All Leverage
3 src Meta | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Fifth Circuit Panel Restores Nine Texas SB 1 Voting Provisions on Standing Grounds Weeks Before Midterms
3 src Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Texas Tribune Investigation: 60+ Children Held 100+ Days at Dilley, Five Times the Flores Settlement's 20-Day Cap
2 src CoreCivic | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | Gov. Abbott Freezes Texas Data Center Grid Connections, Orders ERCOT/PUCT Audit
3 src Greg Abbott · ERCOT · Public Utility Commission of Texas · Meta Platforms · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-22 | Archer County TX Unanimously Denies Tax Abatement for Google's 2,800-Acre 'Project Raptor' Data Center
3 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-10 | Gov. Abbott directs PUCT to require data centers to fully fund own electric infrastructure; PUCT must act to reduce residential transmission costs by July 31, 2026
4 src Greg Abbott · Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | Trump-Endorsed Ken Paxton Defeats Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Texas GOP Senate Primary Runoff; Loyalty-Over-Institutionalism Purge of In-Party Dissenter
3 src Ken Paxton · Donald Trump · James Talarico | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | Webb County, Texas Sends an HSI Laredo Agent Scanned Voter Records After He Asks for Seven Named Individuals by Email
3 src Homeland Security Investigations · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Democracy Forward | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | Hill County TX Adopts, Then Rescinds Under $100M Federal Suit, the First Texas County Data-Center Moratorium — the Case Now Shaping Bell County and Fort Worth's Cautious Posture
7 src | | reported |
| 2026-04-27 | Supreme Court Summarily Reverses District Court Judgment Against Texas Congressional Map in Abbott v. LULAC, No. 25-845; Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson Dissent
2 src Supreme Court of the United States · Greg Abbott · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-25 | Texas Federal Judge Halts Deportation of El Gamal Family After 10+ Months at Dilley Detention
1 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-10 | HSI Victoria Analyst Emails Texas Secretary of State About Voter Data and Subpoenas, Citing Individual County Registrars
2 src Homeland Security Investigations · Texas Secretary of State · Democracy Forward | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | PUCT issues draft report in Project 58484 recommending Texas shift from 4CP to multi-peak transmission cost methodology — final rules required by December 31, 2026
4 src Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT · Greg Abbott |
| reported |
| 2026-02-25 | Cameron County Grand Jury Declines to Indict HSI Agent in Fatal Shooting of US Citizen Ruben Ray Martinez
3 src Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-02-13 | ProPublica and Texas Tribune Find Missouri Barred Flagged Voters From Voting While Checks Were Pending
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-21 | El Paso Medical Examiner Rules Cuban ICE Detainee Geraldo Lunas Campos's Death a Homicide; Witness Says Guards Choked Him
6 src Camp East Montana · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-07 | DHS Secretary Noem Announces 500 Miles of Rio Grande Buoy Barriers
2 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-04 | Supreme Court Stays Order Blocking Texas's 2025 Congressional Map Pending Appeal; Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson Dissent
7 src Supreme Court of the United States · Greg Abbott · Donald Trump · Texas Legislature · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-20 | Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Local Government Abortion Travel Assistance
3 src Greg Abbott · Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2025-08-11 | Texas Public Utility Commission sues AG Ken Paxton to block release of Bitcoin miner facility data; invokes terrorism threat to shield SB 1929 registration records from journalists
2 src Public Utility Commission of Texas · Ken Paxton |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-01 | Texas Democrats Flee State to Block Trump-Requested Mid-Cycle Gerrymandering
3 src Greg Abbott · Donald Trump · Texas House Democrats · Texas Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-20 | Texas Gov. Abbott signs SB 6 — large-load (≥75 MW) interconnection reform; mandatory remote-disconnect / curtailment for entrants post Dec 31 2025; bellwether state model for the federal FERC ANOPR
6 src Greg Abbott · Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT · Texas Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-17 | First Criminal Charges Filed Under Texas Abortion Ban: Midwife Faces 20 Years
3 src Ken Paxton | | confirmed |
| 2025-03-15 | HSI Supervisory Agent Fatally Shoots US Citizen Ruben Ray Martinez at South Padre Island Traffic Scene; ICE Involvement Concealed for 11 Months
7 src Homeland Security Investigations · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · American Oversight | | confirmed |
| 2025-02-20 | Study Finds 50% Spike in Pregnancy-Related Sepsis and Deaths in Texas After Abortion Ban
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2023-09-06 | Riot Platforms discloses $31.7M in ERCOT power and demand-response credits for August 2023 — record single-month curtailment payout to a Bitcoin miner
2 src ERCOT |
| confirmed |
| 2023-05-30 | Texas SB 1751 — which would have capped Bitcoin miner demand-response participation at 10% — dies in House State Affairs Committee after passing Senate 30–1; industry lobbying preserves unlimited subsidy access
4 src Texas Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2022-10-12 | Senators Markey and Warren open congressional inquiry into ERCOT subsidies for Bitcoin miners; cite $9.5M Riot July 2022 payment exceeding Bitcoin revenue; project up to $170M in annual miner payouts
2 src Ed Markey · Elizabeth Warren · Sheldon Whitehouse · Dick Durbin · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-02-14 | Rio Grande Council of Governments, Texas launches first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 system with Carbyne
3 src Carbyne |
| confirmed |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion
4 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-11 | Federal Court Rules Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminatory Against Minorities
4 src Texas Legislature · Federal Courts |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-11 | Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters
4 src Texas Legislature · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2005-09-28 | House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted for Money Laundering and Conspiracy
3 src Tom DeLay |
| confirmed |
| 1944-04-03 | Smith v. Allwright: Supreme Court Strikes Down White Primaries, Opening Democratic Party to Black Voters
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund |
| confirmed |