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Marfa Public Radio
Here are your local results from the 2026 midterm elections in West Texas
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KUT News
Shelby Tauber and Aiden Gonzalez
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The Texas Tribune
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Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesDemocratic former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has won back a seat on Capitol Hill, defeating incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted after a close and expensive battle, according to a race call by the Associated Press. -
Mark Felix/AFP via Getty ImagesDemocrat James Talarico has won the Senate seat in Texas, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
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Emails shared with Marfa Public Radio show U.S. Customs and Border Protection quietly paused construction on part of the Big Bend border wall a week before a federal judge ordered the work halted. A CBP official wrote that the internal pause stemmed from a lack of access to private land and a federal contractor’s demand for more money. -
Texas' high court judges make rulings that change state law, shape crucial daily legal processes like child custody and, in the case of the Court of Criminal Appeals, decide matters of life and death. -
Civil rights organizations sue Texas secretary of state, DPS director over voter registration delaysThe lawsuit by the NAACP, Texas NAACP, and Texas LULAC follows revelations that more than half a million voter registration applications were delayed in the runup to early voting. -
A legal battle over the Trump administration’s plan for border barriers across the Big Bend region is now in the hands of the nation’s highest court. Marfa Public Radio spoke with SCOTUSblog founder and reporter Amy Howe about what could happen next.
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