Texas has a powerful new House speaker after years of escalating Republican infighting. Dustin Burrows won the job on Tuesday with the support of Democrats who favored him over a challenger backed by the GOP’s emboldened hard right.

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was voted speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday,

The leadership fight in Austin follows months of all-out political warfare between Republican factions and could further empower the state’s most strident conservatives.