FOX 7 Discussion: Is Critical Race Theory a manufactured crisis?

JD Key Communications CEO James Dickey and senior strategist for Progress Texas Glenn W. Smith join FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren to discuss what critical race theory is and why the GOP wants it banned from being taught in schools.

This Week in Texas Politics: Ted Cruz, Nancy Pelosi, natural disasters

FOX7's Rudy Koski and our panel of political experts take a look at the issues that dominated This Week in Texas Politics, including Ted Cruz, natural disasters and recent political endorsements.

Willie Nelson, wife struggled to vote absentee in primary

Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules.

Ted Cruz, John Cornyn are poised to vote against Ketanji Brown Jackson

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the first Black woman on the country’s highest court in its more than 230-year history — a fact that Cruz has called "inspirational" and Cornyn has called "long overdue."

AUDIO: Granbury ISD superintendent orders librarians to remove LGBTQ books

Granbury ISD responded to leaked audio from January, in which the district's superintendent tells school librarians to pull books that focus on sexuality and gender. Shortly after that. more than 100 titles were removed for review.

Supreme Court sides with Texas death row inmate over prayer during execution

The Supreme Court sided with Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez who sought to have his pastor be allowed to pray out loud and touch him during his execution.

Appeals court rules Texas secretary of state cannot be sued over state voting laws

A two-judge majority of a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit said the secretary of state is not the right person to sue. You have to go down to the county-level officials, somebody that’s more hands-on with doing the ballot.

FOX 7 Discussion: Are Texas voters being disenfranchised?

Jamaar Brown, Co-Executive Director of the Texas Democratic Party, joins FOX 7 Austin's Rebecca Thomas to discuss the new Texas Election Integrity Law.

FOX 7 Discussion: Texas Supreme Court shuts down challenge to abortion law

James Dickey, the CEO of JD Key Communications, and Progress Texas Advocacy Director Diana Gomez join FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren for a FOX 7 Discussion.

Transgender rights activists push back against Abbott's directive

Gov. Greg Abbott called for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families undergoing gender-affirming care, calling it child abuse.

This Week in Texas Politics: Hearings, Harris County vote count, gas prices

FOX7's Rudy Koski and our panel of political experts take a look at the issues that dominated This Week in Texas Politics including border and power grid hearings and the vote count issues in Harris County.

Texas judge blocks investigations into parents of trans children

A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender-confirming care for transgender youth.

Texas Supreme Court deals final blow to federal abortion law challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court left abortion providers only the narrowest avenue to challenge the ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. Friday’s Texas Supreme Court ruling has effectively ended that federal legal challenge.

Harm reduction services can reduce overdoses, advocates say

The Texas Harm Reduction Office held a rally and marched to Ted Cruz’s office in Austin to ask for him to support harm reduction services, rather than ending them.

FOX 7 Discussion: Temporary blocks on gender-affirming care investigations

Former GOP Chairman James Dickey and LGBTQ+ policy consultant at Progress Texas Ash Hall join FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren for FOX 7 Discussion on transgender youth.