Dec 8, 2017 | Campaign News
SEN: Houston resident Edward Kimbrough filed in the Democratic primary to challenge U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R). CD4: Emory resident Catherine Krantz filed as a Democrat to challenge U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Rockwall). CD5 open: A David Williams filed in the Republican...
Nov 15, 2017 | Campaign News
Filing for a place on the 2018 continues until 6 p.m. local time on December 11. Please see our Crib Sheets for candidates’ filing status. SD8 open: Concerned Women for America’s Legislative Action Committee and the Collin Co. Deputies Assoc. endorsed Angela Paxton....
Nov 1, 2017 | Campaign News
Early Voting continues for the November 6 general and constitutional amendment election through Friday. Through Tuesday, the ninth day of early voting, less than 1.6% of registered voters in the state’s 15 most populous counties had cast ballots in person or by mail,...
Oct 24, 2017 | Campaign News
Early Voting continues for the November 6 general and constitutional amendment election. Turnout has been very light across most of the state. Just 0.3% of registered voters in the state’s 15 most populous counties voted early in person or by mail on Monday, the first...
May 5, 2017 | Campaign News
Election Day is tomorrow (Saturday) for many local jurisdictions across the state. We will have live coverage of selected races beginning at 7 p.m. SD8: The Dallas Morning News’s Gromer Jeffers Jr. reported Rep. Matt Shaheen (R-Plano) is waiting for Sen. Van Taylor...
Feb 21, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Federal candidates’ pre-primary reports were due on Friday. These reports cover contributions received and expenditures made between January 1 and February 10. While some reports have (still) not yet posted to the Federal Election Commission’s web site,...
Feb 2, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Federal candidates were required to file end-of-year reports covering by January 31. These reports disclose contributions received and expenditures made during the last quarter of 2015. We have a few quick observations about these reports: Very few primary challengers...
Nov 5, 2014 | Election Night Returns
3 a.m. – March 5 Hegar ends tonight 75 votes short of avoiding a runoff. Mail ballots, provisional ballots and a potential recount could lift him out of a runoff with Hilderbran. In ED11, Hardy is indeed forced into a runoff against Mahroum. 2 a.m. 9 legislative...
May 28, 2014 | Election Night Returns
2014 PRIMARY RUNOFF ELECTION LIVE RETURNS May 27, 2014 Midnight – May 28 We will wrap up our runoff results with an update in the morning when final numbers are in. Until then, we note some of the historical significances of tonight’s results: Turnout in a...
May 22, 2014 | Archived Updates
We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Friday is the end of early voting. Through Wednesday, less than 2.5% of registered voters have cast ballots in the runoff. Attached please find our latest update. Highlights include: New info on the dark money...
May 16, 2014 | Archived Updates
We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Federal runoff candidates’ campaign finance reports were due to the Federal Election yesterday. The FEC has posted online 3 of the 8 we are expecting. Attached please find our latest update. Highlights...
May 15, 2014 | Archived Updates
We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Federal runoff candidates’ campaign finance reports were due to the Federal Election Commission today, but the agency has not posted any as of 9:30 p.m. Attached please find our latest update. Highlights...
