Nov 16, 2022 | Campaign News
As expected, former President Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination last night (Tues.). During his hourlong address, Trump asserted that he received the most votes in the 2020 election and he won every community along the Texas...
Nov 1, 2022 | Race Ratings
Our final update to our 2022 race ratings shifts 30 races toward the Republicans and none toward the Democrats. Based on lagging turnout, especially in areas and among demographics key to Democratic successes in 2018 and on a significant Republican financial advantage...
Mar 31, 2022 | Campaign News
U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela’s (D-Brownsville) resignation will take effect at 11:59 p.m. tonight (Thursday). A special election will be required to fill his unexpired term. The election could be held as early as May 7, but Gov. Greg Abbott (R) would need to order it by...
Feb 19, 2022 | Campaign Finance
Federal candidates’ pre-primary campaign finance reports were due Thursday. These reports disclose contributions received and expenditures made between January 1 and February 9. The period may have begun sooner for candidates who had not previously filed reports. Our...
Dec 10, 2021 | Campaign News
Filing for partisan nomination or an independent candidacy for the 2022 general election concludes at 6 p.m. local time on Monday. Our Crib Sheets have the latest information on the 893 candidates for statewide, legislative and congressional offices we are tracking,...
Dec 9, 2021 | Campaign News
Filing for partisan nomination or an independent candidacy for the 2022 general election concludes Monday. Applications must be received by the relevant party official by 6 p.m. that day. Our Crib Sheets are updated throughout the day to reflect the latest filings and...
Oct 18, 2021 | Campaign News
The House and Semate adopted the conference committee report (CCR) for Senate Bill 6 by Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston), the congressional redistricting plan. The CCR retained a House amendment by Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston) that realigned CD18 closer to its...
Aug 12, 2021 | Redistricting
The U.S. Census Bureau released block-level data needed for redistricting today (Thursday). The state’s total population of 29.1M was previously announced with the congressional apportionment data. Today’s release includes far more detail and at a much more granular...
Apr 29, 2020 | Campaign News
Correction: In yesterday’s (Tuesday) report, we erroneously listed Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R-Arlington) as representing open HD96, which is represented by the retiring Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington). We have corrected the mistake in our online report and regret the...
Dec 9, 2019 | Campaign News
Today (Monday) was the filing deadline for most candidates seeking partisan office in 2020. At least 53 were “new” candidates for federal, state or legislative office in the sense that we were not tracking them, had not reported on them this cycle and did not have...
Sep 29, 2019 | Campaign News
HD60: Graford rancher Glenn Rogers, who announced his intent to run for the seat following Rep. Mike Lang’s (R-Granbury) announcement that he would seek county office, will remain in the Republican primary race despite Lang’s reversal that he will seek re-election...
Oct 19, 2018 | Campaign News
Early Voting begins Monday for the November 6 general election and runs through November 2. GOV: The Corpus Christi Caller-Times endorsed Gov. Greg Abbott (R). LTGOV: The Corpus Christi Caller-Times endorsed Democratic challenger Mike Collier over Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick...