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Multiple reputable sources converge on a clear but not perfectly precise picture: the best-supported, recent estimate is about 1.7 million , while other analyses and media accounts place the figure as...
ICE detention data show a substantial portion of people held have no criminal convictions: multiple datasets report between of detainees lacked criminal convictions in mid-to-late 2025. ICE and some s...
Texas is widely reported in 2025 to host roughly 1.6–1.7 million people living in the United States without legal permission, making it one of the states with the largest undocumented (unauthorized) p...
Campaign filings and news reports show Jasmine Crockett raised roughly $2.7 million for her House campaign during July–September 2025 and had about $4.6 million cash on hand at the end of September 20...
Two official, address-searchable Texas tools will immediately show a street address’s state House and Senate districts: the Legislature’s “Who Represents Me?” site and the Legislative Reference Librar...
As of the most recent available reporting, Texas has 38 seats in the U.S. House and two U.S. senators; the House delegation currently contains 25 Republicans, 12 Democrats, and 1 vacancy, for a total ...
Jasmine Crockett announced a late-entry U.S. Senate run in Texas on Dec. 8, 2025 and in that launch — and in prior public remarks — she made several comments about race and racialized behavior that ha...
Texas’s Hispanic population in recent reporting is roughly 39–40% of the state’s residents, which translates to about 11–12 million people depending on the dataset used: Texas Demographic Center and s...
The available, recent sources do not provide a single authoritative figure for the share of , and Texas does not publicly track voter registration by ethnicity in a way that yields that exact percenta...
James Talarico positions himself as a Democratic critic of Israeli policy during the Gaza war era rather than an unqualified defender of Israel, urging increased humanitarian aid for Gaza and publicly...
Available sources identify Rep. Jasmine Crockett as a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and describe several instances where her votes or positions have frustrated some progressives — esp...
You asked how to find your Texas state legislative district using the current maps. The materials given show three consistent claims: official and nonpartisan mapping tools exist (but may require addr...
The best available estimates place the number of unauthorized (undocumented) immigrants in between roughly 1.7 million and about 2.1 million people, with most prominent research centers clustering nea...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has public partnerships and event ties with several high‑profile Republican officeholders and campaigns — notably state executives in Texas, Florida and Oklahoma who have ann...
Available search results show multiple near-identical viral articles claiming Joel Osteen publicly told Rep. Jasmine Crockett “God will NEVER forgive you” and that Candace Owens then “destroyed” Ostee...
A three-judge federal panel in the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking Texas’s 2025 congressional map from being used in the 2026 midterm elections, finding “substantial...
Texas’s 2024 general-election turnout ranged near , with Republican Donald Trump receiving and Democrat Kamala Harris , according to compiled post‑election tallies . Primary turnout showed a far large...
Public filings and reporting identify a mix of billionaire energy executives, oil-and-gas heirs, wealthy ranching and real-estate investors, and construction and business owners among ’s major individ...
Federal filings and reporting show sizable Soros-linked giving in the 2024 cycle, including millions routed through Soros Fund Management and Soros-affiliated super PACs, while news reports and candid...
James Talarico is a Democratic Texas state representative who announced a 2025 bid for the U.S. Senate and is positioning himself as a faith-forward, anti–big‑donor progressive with outreach to modera...