Texas has long had an independent streak. But just how likely is it that the Lone Star state will chart its own path?

EXCLUSIVE: Crysta Abelseth told Louisiana authorities in 2015 that her daughter had been born after a rape when she was just 16 and the girl’s father, John Barnes, was 30. They failed to investigate for nearly seven years, during which her alleged rapist was given sole custody. Now the 32-year-old mother wants justice, she tells Sheila Flynn