The latest defection, of a prominent county judge to the Republican Party, signals how much the region’s politics and Hispanic voters there are changing.
Over much of south, central and west Texas, including Austin and San Antonio and far southeastern New Mexico, there is also an extremely critical risk of wildfires.
The sun wasn’t up yet when a dozen people began to gather on Wednesday at an all-Black cemetery in this South Texas border town as they prepared to retrace the steps that slaves took on the