Texas GOP Censures Lawmakers
The Texas GOP has voted to censure five of its own lawmakers in the Texas House.
The State Republican Executive Committee, the party's governing board, met to consider reprimanding 10 Republican House members for being insufficiently conservative.
However, they stopped short of banning them from the 2026 primary ballot, rejecting an untested provision that some say would have violated their constitutional right to appear on the ballot.
The decision signals a deescalating intraparty tension that heightened at the start of the year.
Author's summary: Texas GOP censures five lawmakers without banning them.