Tuesday's events at the Texas-Mexico border featured Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan vowing mass deportation and the launch of the "Jocelyn Initiative."

"Border czar" Tom Homan has said the administration will "absolutely" make use of a ranch offered by Commissioner Dawn Buckingham.

Starr County, Texas, voted predominantly Republican for the first time in a century. Now, it's central to President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans.

Texas is quickly becoming the blueprint for how incoming Trump officials expect to work with states on border security – a stark pivot from recent years when it was the epicenter of a bitter feud between state and federal officials.

Almost every county in Texas swung toward Trump compared to the 2020 election. Statewide, 234 counties moved in Trump's direction, while only 20 swung to the left.

Incoming border czar Thomas Homan joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Tuesday, and will serve meals to troops stationed at the border.

State Senator Paul Bettencourt pre-filed seven bills largely aimed at past practices in Harris County. Six of them previously cleared the Senate in 2023 but died in the House at the end of the regular legislative session.

It’s the first concrete sign that lawmakers plan to tackle the ballot secrecy issue since an investigation by Votebeat and the Texas Tribune in May showed how laws touted as increasing election transparency have made it possible — in limited instances — to determine how individuals voted, using publicly available records and data.

Republican Jay Furman said he did not appear on some voters' ballots in Texas' 28th Congressional District election against Henry Cuellar.

Texans have voted in 39 presidential elections since the state was readmitted to the Union in 1870, following the Civil War. Since 1872, the state has seen landslide victories and nail-bitingly close races.