Ashley Lopez
Ashley Lopez joined KUT in January 2016. She covers politics and health care, and is part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News reporting collaborative. Previously she worked as a reporter at public radio stations in Louisville, Ky.; Miami and Fort Myers, Fla., where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award.
Ashley was also part of NPR’s Political Reporting Partnership during the 2016 presidential election. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Texas has consistently led the nation in voter turnout during this presidential election despite many barriers to voting, civil rights advocates say.
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Some people of color living in rural parts of Texas will drive farther to get to the polls today than white residents living in the same counties, according to research from Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
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About half a million Texans under 30 have voted so far, according to new data from Tufts University.
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Democrats are nine seats away from winning a majority in the 150-seat chamber in the Texas House of Representatives. A win would mean Democrats could help draw new political maps in 2021.
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First things first: Most votes don't get counted until Election Day. To be even more clear, those votes aren’t counted until the polls close that evening.
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“One-third of the total increase in the number of uninsured children from 2016 to 2019 live in Texas,” researchers wrote.
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Travis County officials say they plan to fight Gov. Greg Abbott’s order limiting the number of places where voters can hand deliver mail-in ballots....
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Almost a million low-income Texans would likely enroll in Medicaid if the state were to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
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Lee esta historia en español. Latino voters in Texas will be heading to the polls as a pandemic continues to disproportionately affect their communities...
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Lee esta historia en español. Texans should prepare early if they want to vote by mail in the upcoming presidential election, voting groups say. Texas...
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Lee esta historia en español. Texas’ growing Latino population is poised to be significantly undercounted in this year’s census, following a slew of...
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The coronavirus pandemic has made some past polling locations, like grocery stores and nursing homes, less appealing this year. So state officials are searching elsewhere.