The signs of a political shift in the reliably blue counties that line Texas’s southern border with Mexico had been coming. Local GOP offices were emerging in places like Starr County that had not voted for a Republican for president in a century.

Republicans had a big night in South Texas, flipping predominately Hispanic counties along the US-Mexico border.

Almost every county in Texas swung toward Trump compared to the 2020 election. Statewide, 234 counties moved in Trump's direction, while only 20 swung to the left.

Most U.S. counties shifted at least a little bit to the right on Election Day compared to 2020, but of the 15 that have lurched the farthest over the past two presidential elections, 14 are majority Hispanic or Latino. Thirteen of those are in Texas, and the 14th is Florida’s Miami-Dade, one of the most populous counties in the country.

Texas nationalist leader Daniel Miller said his group was seeking "political, cultural and economic independence" for the state.

Jorge Bazán's family has lived on the U.S.-Mexico border for generations and voted for Democrats as long as he can remember. He broke the family tradition this year and voted for Donald Trump because he doesn't trust the Democratic Party's economic policies.