David Martin Davies

The election is over for the massive 23rd Congressional District of Texas. But the legal fight is just beginning.

International election observers are being told to stay away from polling sites in Texas and Arizona. Texas election officials are threatening the observers with arrest if they show up at the polls.

In Texas, there’s a tight race brewing between two Latinos. Two years ago, Francisco Canseco was swept in congress as part of the national Tea Party wave. His challenger is Peter Gallego, a Democrat who has served in the legislature for 22 years. This vast congressional district is majority Latino. Observers are watching to see how that voting bloc may or may not influence the election and what it spells for future Texas politics.

Residents and elected officials in South Texas continue to protest a fatal shooting of two undocumented immigrants from a Department of Public Safety helicopter.

Winning the Texas 23rd Congressional District means much more than adding another party vote in Congress -- it’s a window into the future of politics in Texas.

Mexico's issues are so tightly intertwined with domestic issues, it can be tough to separate the two.