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The article focuses on the increasingly aggressive and harsh tactics employed by Texas law enforcement officials in their hold-the-line operation at the border. Topics include fortified riverbanks with concertina wire, denial of water to migrants, failure to alert federal Border Patrol agents; internal complaints and opposition from Texas officers; and international tension with Mexico due to the deployment of barriers into the Rio Grande.

AUSTIN, Tex. -- Behind every politician there are men and women working in the wings, operatives who can make calls, fix problems, raise money, punish enemies. In Rick Perry's world, one man stands above them all: Mike Toomey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Texas Governor Rick Perry faces some potentially awkward policy discussions on deep spending cuts. It mentions that fellow Republicans want to eliminate his provision of taking both his salary and his state pension which has increased his earnings by more than $90,000 annually. Furthermore, Representative James White notes his confusion over the reason large firms acquire tax money when his district needs more funds for roads and schools.

The article discusses a history when Americans were the illegal immigrants and the story of Mexican immigrants who try to move to Texas. It highlights a letter from Colonel José de las Piedras to Stephen F. Austin regarding the immigrants he encountered east of the Trinity River who were going to Austin's colony. Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who announced that he will run in the 2014 election for lieutenant governor, offers his comment.

The article focuses on the political version of a hangover left by the Democratic victories across the U.S. to the Republican voters and activists. It says that majorities in the legislatures and Texas congressional delegation were held by the Republicans. State Representative Aaron Peña, adds that the cycle of the election was a preview of what is coming and what is already present in some areas of Texas.

The article announces that Austin, a counterculture city in Texas, will become the epicenter of the automobile racing world as its Circuit of the Americas track will host the first Formula One race since 2007. Several top-drivers being profiled include Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Fernando Alonso of Spain. It also profiles Bobby Epstein, who is one of the largest investors in the track. ..

The article reports on the tight race between Francisco Canseco and Pete Gallego for the 23rd Congressional District of Texas. It discusses how the candidates feud through indecent words. When Gallego called Canseco a radical bent on destroying the pro-business climate, the latter demanded an apology from the former.

The establishment nearly always wins in Texas politics, so Jason Johnson, a longtime Republican consultant, said he thought it would be next to impossible to stop a powerful and wealthy lieutenant governor who would never run out of money or friends. But when Mr. Johnson stumbled into a cab last week during the state Republican convention in Fort Worth, he knew his candidate for the United States Senate had crossed a legitimacy threshold he could not have envisioned even a few weeks ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst stood at a lectern at the Intercontinental Hotel in Houston after Tuesday night's primary and spoke to supporters as if he had scored a victory. Though he had indeed drawn more votes than his eight opponents in the Republican primary for United States Senate, Mr. Dewhurst fell more than 70,000 votes short of what he needed to avoid a runoff. While speaking like a winner, he made reference to the groups he had been saying for weeks were working to force him to this less-than-ideal outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If only Molly were here to see this. I have said those words several times since the columnist Molly Ivins died in 2007. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

No phrase sums up Rick Perry's political DNA better than this one: He has never lost an election. Yet after an awful fifth-place showing in Iowa and top aides telling him he should consider pulling out of the presidential race, the specter of a first defeat has come into focus. But Mr. Perry does not really know how to lose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a Texas governor and presidential candidate, Rick Perry has repeatedly turned to the marketplace for policy solutions to health care and retirement security. But as a private citizen, Mr. Perry has generally relied on the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To hear him tell it on the presidential campaign trail, Gov. Rick Perry has never met a tax increase he liked. But at home, over a political career that reaches back to the oil price shocks of the 1980s, Mr. Perry has embraced billions of dollars worth of them -- including a $528 million tax increase approved in 1990, after he defected to the Republican Party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gov. Rick Perry may or may not try to become the leader of what was once called the free world. In the meantime, he has cemented his reputation as one of the most powerful governors ever to walk the corridors of the Texas Capitol. As the longest serving governor in state history, Mr. Perry has named more people to boards and commissions than any predecessor -- 5,495 at last count, Legislative Reference Library figures show -- allowing him to put his conservative stamp on every corner of state government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]