Mar 5, 2024 | Campaign News
By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAR. 4, 2024 Endangered incumbents? Only one legislative incumbent has fallen in a primary election in the last two primary elections. At least four legislative incumbents were ousted in the each of the previous...
Feb 14, 2024 | Campaign News
Texas House Race 30-Day-Out Report Analysis Challengers Outpacing Incumbents By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor More than $8 million flowed into races pitting an incumbent Republican House member against one or more primary challengers during the...
Jan 24, 2024 | Campaign News
Governor Greg Abbott continues to set state fundraising records. He reported raising $19.7M in his January semiannual reports, which covered the second half of 2023. This is the most ever raised by an officeholder for a semi-annual period in a non-election year,...
Jan 8, 2024 | Campaign News
By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor JAN. 5, 2023 If it seems to you like more Republican House incumbents are facing multiple primary challengers (MPCs), then your perceptive powers are accurate. This cycle, 16 House Republicans are facing MPCs. This...
Dec 19, 2023 | Campaign News
By Laura Carr TXElects Owner & Head of Business Development DEC. 18, 2023 TXElects has launched a prototype of the first AI-driven software for Texas political professionals to 10 heavy-hitting organizations. This software is specifically designed to aggregate,...
Dec 18, 2023 | Campaign News
DEC 8, 2023 By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor Houston’s mayoral runoff, like all elections, will come down to turnout, but turnout variations may well point to a built-in advantage for one of the candidates. Senator John Whitmire received 43.0% of...
Dec 5, 2023 | Campaign News
NOV. 29, 2023 Contested Republican primaries are nothing new. In 2022, 33 incumbent Republicans drew primary challengers. Aside from the relatively quiet 2020 primary, an average of 25 incumbent Republican legislators have faced contested primaries. With less than two...
Nov 7, 2023 | Campaign News
November 7th Ballot Propositions Overview Understanding the Constitutional Amendments Proposition 1 – HJR 126 HJR 126 by Rep. Burns seeks to constitutionally protect the right to engage in farming, ranching, and other agricultural practices on privately owned or...
Oct 30, 2023 | Campaign News
Six candidates are vying in a special election to fill the unexpired term of former Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Royse City). As of Sept. 29, Ben Wheeler administrative director Jill Dutton ($142K) and Greenville attorney Brent Money ($129K) had out-raised the field, and they...
Dec 18, 2022 | Campaign News
Based on preliminary and largely unofficial election results, Texas ranked 39th in turnout, calculated as percent of the voting-eligible population casting ballots for the top office on the ballot. With just over 8.1M votes cast, 42.5% of the estimated 19.1M...
Dec 13, 2022 | Campaign Finance, Campaign News
Former Mayor and former Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) won Austin’s mayoral runoff, 50.4%-49.6%, over Rep. Celia Israel (D-Austin), a margin of 886 votes. Watson’s margin of victory came from the pockets of Austin outside Travis Co. He received 62% of the nearly 3,600...
Dec 6, 2022 | Campaign News
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) will nominate Sen. Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound) to become the state’s 115th Secretary of State. “Senator Nelson’s lifelong commitment to public service and deep understanding of state government will be assets in her new role ensuring the critical...