Texas Political Pulse for February 11, 2026. You received 15 news.
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Center Square Texas
More than 250 ICE agreements signed with Texas law enforcement in a year
...correctional facilities in Texas are participating in 287(g), including the largest prison system run by the ​Texas Department of Criminal Justice. By contrast, Democratic-led Arizona Department of Corrections and...
02/11/2026 Online
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Dallas Express
El Paso Airport Reopens After FAA Imposes Temporary 10-Day Closure For ‘Security Reasons'
...disrupting travel and shipments in a border metropolitan area home to nearly 900,000 people. U.S. Rep. ​Veronica Escobar, a Democrat representing El Paso, addressed the situation in an Instagram post early Wednesday...
02/11/2026 Online
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NewsRadio 1080 KRLD
The Latest: FAA lifts temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas
The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in ​Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all...
02/11/2026 Online
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Texas Border Business
State Approves $21.7M for Davie Defense’s New Icebreaker Manufacturing Operation
Governor ​Greg Abbott today announced Davie Defense Inc. will expand their shipbuilding capacity in Galveston and Port Arthur to build Arctic icebreakers, creating more than 2,400 new jobs and representing...
02/11/2026 Online
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CBS 19 Tyler
The FAA later reopened airspace on Wednesday morning, just hours after the notice shutting it down was issued.
...the affected area, which could cause massive disruption in the nation’s 23rd-largest city. Rep. ​Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said her office has been told there’s no imminent threat to El Paso. The Tribune...
Terri Langford (the Texas Tribune)
02/11/2026 Online
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KSST Radio (Sulphur Springs)
Commissioner Miller Announces the $100 Million AgLink Continuity Grant Bolstering Food and Fiber Resilience
February 11, 2026 - AUSTIN - Today, Commissioner Miller, the ​Texas Department of Agriculture(TDA), and the ​Texas Agriculture Finance Authority (TAFA) announced the AgLink Continuity Grant (AgLink). AgLink...
02/11/2026 Online
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Houston Public Media
Texans born without traditional sex traits worry law will force them to choose gender they don’t identify with
...in — a persistent fear shared by many in the intersex community. Now, that fear has deepened after ​Texas lawmakers last summer passed a law that some intersex people say will force them to conform to a gender...
Aidan Johnstone
02/11/2026 Online
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Abilene Reporter-News
Gov. Greg Abbott campaign sounds alarm on Texas blue wave
Updated Feb. 10, 2026, 2:13 p.m. CT Republican incumbent Texas Gov. ​Greg Abbott is sounding the alarm about a potential blue wave in the state after Democrats continue to surge in elections. On Tuesday,...
Kristian Jaime
02/11/2026 Online
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WOAI NBC 4 San Antonio
Texas labor unions are increasingly divided on which candidate to endorse for governor A host of labor unions backed Gov. Greg Abbott last week in his bid for reelection, endorsements the Republican governor says represent a historic break from th
A host of labor unions backed Gov. ​Greg Abbott last week in his bid for reelection, endorsements the Republican governor says represent a historic break from th ​Texas labor unions are increasingly divided...
Paul Cobler
02/11/2026 Online
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Texas Tribune
Chip Roy, Mayes Middleton leading Texas attorney general GOP primary in new poll
The poll, released Wednesday, also showed ​Sid Miller and Don Huffines with comfortable leads in their Republican primary bids for agriculture commissioner and comptroller. Feb. 11, 2026, 7:00 a.m. Central...
Ayden Runnels
02/11/2026 Online
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Texas Public Radio
New border wall plans threaten RGV nature areas
...Washington D.C. and to key members of Congress involved in homeland security spending. One of them is ​Henry Cuellar, a South Texas Democrat and ranking member of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees...
David Martin Davies
02/11/2026 Online
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
Sid Miller tops poll as most Texas Republicans face runoffs; Hinojosa leads Dems
...primary races won't be settled until May runoffs, but embattled incumbent Agriculture Commissioner ​Sid Miller has a wide lead over a challenger, according to a new University of Houston poll. Miller, a...
Bud Kennedy
02/11/2026 Online
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San Marcos Daily Record
Contentious social media key to US Senate race
...Dallas-based political content creator, Morgan Thompson, told her almost 200,000 followers that state Rep. ​James Talarico, an Austin Democrat running for U.S. Senate, referred to former U.S. Rep. ​Colin Allred as...
Kayla Guo Texas Tribune
02/11/2026 Online
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
Congress Threatens China With Global Isolation If It Attacks Taiwan
...government and the people of Taiwan, I want to sincerely thank Congressman Frank Lucas, Democrat ​Vicente Gonzalez, and all the members of Congress who supported this bill," Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung...
Micah Mccartney Newsweek
02/11/2026 Online
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KXXV (ABC) 25 (Waco)
Texas AG experts talk lab-created meat's threat to state's beef industry as lawsuit against ban moves forward
...last updated Bobby Poitevint Hi! I'm Bobby Poitevint, your Senior Neighborhood Reporter in Central ​Texas. MCGREGOR, ​Texas (KXXV) — ​Texas is the number one beef producer in the country but could lab-created...
Bobby Poitevint
02/11/2026 Online
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