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Like a lot of people, I've been jockeying between rage and despair over the state of our national government. But when I walk into Mary Gay Scanlon's Washington, D.C., office at 8 a.m. on a Tuesday in late February, I'm ready for a close and personal view of the mess, with something of a twist: I've come to spend the day with one of the Women in White.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Hundreds turned out for the LULAC District VIII Cinco de Mayo Parade Saturday in downtown Houston.

The parade started at the corner of Texas and Hamilton, next to Minute Maid Park and moved its way throughout the neighborhood as spectators waved flags, danced and cheered.

Congressional Democrats are looking to put teeth back in the Voting Rights Act, six years after the Supreme Court gutted a key enforcement provision through its ruling in Shelby County v. Holder.

For two years now, Democratic leaders have urged those demanding President Donald Trump's impeachment to wait for the findings of the special counsel, Robert Mueller.

As we get closer and closer to the 2020 Presidential Elections — only about a year and a half to go, but who's counting? — our newsfeed is flooded with announcements of impending presidential campaigns and promises for change.

WASHINGTON - Amid the growing power struggle between Congress and the White House, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, intends to press for legislation that could land a candidate or staff member in jail for five years for working with a foreign agent.

By 2020, Latinos are expected to become the largest non-white voter population in the U.S. The Pew Research Center estimates that 32 million Latinos could cast a ballot in the next national election. But will they?

The answer is a solid maybe.