Rep. Pete Sessions, who won his race in Texas' 17th district, discusses the midterm election results and outline his priorities.

A record 9.8 million Texans voted in the midterm elections, with Latino voters playing a significant role in Democratic victories across the state.

James Talarico made history Tuesday night, defeating Ken Paxton to become the first Democrat from Texas to win a U.S. Senate race since 1988.

The 20-year-old Texan spent Election Day canvassing the UT Austin campus, handing out “Longhorns for Talarico” stickers to her fellow college students. She stayed up with friends to watch the results roll in — their nervous optimism growing into unmitigated jubilance that spread as people paraded around campus with “Talarico” and “Hinojosa” signs.

Once reliably a red state, Texas will turn deep blue following this week's midterms. One of the most notable shifts was along the Texas-Mexico border, where Hispanic voters had a big influence.

One of the more shocking developments of the recent midterm elections was the transformation of Texas from a red state to a blue state, with Democrats being elected as governor, lieutenant governor, and to the Senate. However, some of the statements made by James Talarico, soon to be Texas’s first Democratic senator in over a […]

Single-holder executive offices only; excludes courts, commissions and federal offices. Data: Associated Press; Axios analysis; Chart: Andrew Pantazi/Axios Democrats' midterm gains extended deep into the machinery of state government: They swept every statewide executive office on the ballot in Texas, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin and Arizona. Why it matters: These low-profile victories will shape what millions of Americans pay for electricity,...

For the first time in a decade, election predictions far exceeded public expectations. What pollsters anticipated as a blue wave billowed into a blue tsunami. Wins that held ground for already blue seats eased nerves, and the flips of swing states like Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio energized the blue base. But red-belt-busting wins in Republican strongholds like Texas, South Carolina and Kansas alongside pending races in Alaska and...

Mayor John Whitmire will direct the Houston Police Department to limit when its officers' contact federal immigration agents after Democrats swept Texas' statewide offices Tuesday.