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Recent Briefings
Relentless El Niño-driven storms are triggering severe flash flooding across South Texas today. In Washington, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to navigate a tight lame-duck calendar packed wit…
Federal lawmakers are pushing eleventh-hour manager's amendments to the energy permitting package today. Meanwhile, South Texas braces for another wave of localized flooding, as municipal officials in…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: local governments across Texas are racing to impose data center restrictions ahead of state grid audits. In Washington, the incoming Trump administration has tapped St…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: regional mediators float a proposal to end the Hormuz blockade, while the Texas Public Utility Commission overrides local zoning boards to force electrical infrastruct…
In the aftermath of the 2026 midterms, major policy shifts are taking shape in Washington and Austin, while escalating kinetic incidents in the Strait of Hormuz keep global energy markets on edge.
The political landscape has fundamentally shifted following Tuesday's midterms, with Democrats seizing both chambers of Congress and flipping top executive offices in Texas. We are also tracking new b…
As midterm voting gets underway, the U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a final blow to the Justice Department's emergency efforts to intervene in California's ballot processing. In Texas, communities a…
With the midterm elections less than 24 hours away, Washington is already finalizing unilateral executive contingencies to sidestep a potential gridlocked Congress. We are also tracking the final spri…
Today on The Lone Star Dispatch: the Justice Department takes its election oversight battle to the 9th Circuit following a weekend emergency injunction, and Binance resumes withdrawals after a devasta…
We begin today with a nationwide judicial block on the Justice Department's election oversight efforts, expanding the California ruling we covered earlier this week. Plus, Binance confirms the details…