Despite polls showing middling support for the ban, he has been touring the state to tout all of the Texas Legislature’s ...

Abbott is under heavy pressure from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to sign Senate Bill 3 into law, but the multibillion-dollar legal ...

It’s an unusual situation for the lieutenant governor, long viewed by GOP activists as a stalwart conservative responsible ...

Political analyst Dr. Mark Jones says Abbott, who is arguably the most popular major politician in Texas, finds himself in ...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he thinks he “knows where his heart is,” referring to Gov. Greg Abbott’s pending decision on ...

Wesley Barnes, 55, a Gulf War veteran, has battled chronic pain and PTSD since his exposure to sarin gas overseas. After leaving the Army in 1994, he spent years dependent on prescribed opiates.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick discussed a potential special session for congressional redistricting, legislative wins and his own ...

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Lt. Governot Dan Patrick has said THC is poisoning children and adults by way of a legal loophole in hemp law that allows it ...

While in Lubbock, Lt. Gov. Patrick and Sen. Charles defended the proposed bill that would ban THC across the state, impacting ...