A 9-foot tall bust of Elon Musk, inspired by the meme “Elon I Drew You / You Are My Hero, Elon,” stands off of Boca Chica Boulevard in Brownsville, Texas, where the tech billionaire is looking to incorporate his first company town. | Photos by Brenda Bazán for POLITICO

South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212–6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press.

On Saturday, an electorate of Space X employees in South Texas voted to create the new town of Starbase and elect fellow employees as its mayor and city commissioners. That nearly unanimous vote made Elon Musk — in addition to the world’s richest man and the head of the DOGE initiative reshaping the federal