The Texas Tribune corrected an article Thursday that took a Texas sheriff's words out of context to smear him. 
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D., Texas) blistered President Donald Trump at Thursday night's Democratic debate as a "white supremacist" who posed a threat to the safety of people of color in the United States. 
A Democrat running in a key Texas swing district supports decriminalizing illegal border crossings. 
The death toll in Saturday's gun rampage in West Texas rose to seven on Sunday, local media reported, and police said they would hold a news conference later in the day. 
A government watchdog group is seeking a probe into the financial disclosures of a Texas Democratic candidate after he reported just thousands in total income and his campaign issued a statement that is contradictory to what the disclosure forms show. 
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) on Tuesday said Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke should “go home” to Texas and challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas).
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said on Monday during an interview with the liberal podcast Pod Save America, that he was open to an Australia-style mandatory buyback program for guns. 
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and contributor Maria Teresa Kumar speculated that the El Paso mass shooting could be politically advantageous for presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke during an exchange on MSNBC Tuesday morning. They also said the situation could help Democrats flip Texas in 2020. 
Police and FBI investigators in Texas searched for clues on Sunday to explain what drove a young gunman from the Dallas area to kill 20 people at a Walmart store hundreds of miles away in the border city of El Paso. 
Mary Jennings “MJ” Hegar, who is attempting to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas), told reporters in Dallas last week that she supports providing healthcare benefits to illegal immigrants.
