Apr 22, 2021 | Campaign News
Early voting continues for the May 1 general and special elections and runs through April 27. Through yesterday (Wednesday), the third day of early voting, just over 11K people have voted in the CD6 special election, corresponding to roughly 2.4% of registered voters...
Apr 19, 2021 | Campaign Finance, Campaign News
Early voting has begun for the May 1 general and special elections and continues through April 27. Because this is not a statewide election, counties are not required to submit early voting totals to the state (except for CD6), and not all local elections are...
Feb 19, 2021 | Campaign News
Correction: In yesterday’s report, we erroneously said Tuesday’s special runoff election for HD68 was Saturday. It is indeed Tuesday. HD68 special: Early voting concluded today (Friday) as North Texas continued to dig out of this week’s winter storms. Through...
Feb 18, 2021 | Campaign News
Like many Texans, we were knocked offline for a while during the past week because of the winter weather. We hope each of you is safe, warm and healthy. HD68 special: Winter weather crippled early voting, which ends tomorrow (Friday). According to data posted by the...
Feb 16, 2021 | Campaign News
HD68 special: An abbreviated early voting period began today (Tuesday) for the February 23 special runoff election to fill the unexpired House term of Sen. Drew Springer (R-Muenster), but winter weather closures appeared to keep many polling locations open for limited...
Jan 20, 2021 | Campaign News
HD68 special: Early voting concluded yesterday (Tuesday) for Saturday’s special election. A total of 3,756 people voted in person (90%) or by mail (10%) through that day, representing 3.7% of registered voters across the 22 counties. The five largest counties – Cooke...
Jan 18, 2021 | Campaign News
Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton raised $305K during the second half of 2020, the second smallest contribution total he has reported in the last half of a year since 2012. Coming into 2020, Paxton reported an average of $1.15M in contributions in the final reporting period of a...
Jan 17, 2021 | Campaign Finance, Campaign News
HD68 special: Jacksboro attorney and Jacksboro ISD trustee David Spiller (R) leads the five-candidate field with $102K in contributions (includes two daily reports) and $82K in expenditures. Cooke County Judge Jason Brinkley (R) raised $14K and spent $19K, and Nocona...
Jan 15, 2021 | Campaign News
Speaker Dade Phelan’s (R-Beaumont) campaign said he raised $4.5M during the second half of 2020 and ended the year with $4.8M on hand. It was the most ever raised by an incoming House Speaker, edging out former Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s $4.1M in contributions between...
Jan 13, 2021 | Campaign News
HD68 special: Early voting continues for the January 23 special election to fill the unexpired House term of Sen. Drew Springer (R-Muenster). About 650 people have voted early in person or by mail through the first two days of early voting. At least one vote has been...
Jan 12, 2021 | Campaign News
The 87th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature convened at noon today (Tuesday). Rep. Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont) was the only member nominated for Speaker, and he was elected by a 143-2 vote. Newly elected Reps. Jeff Cason (R-Bedford) and Bryan Slaton (R-Royse City)...
Jan 12, 2021 | Campaign News
Note: This report was intended to be published on Friday but a technical glitch, which we just discovered, prevented its publication. Dominion Voting Systems has sued Texas-licensed attorney Sidney Powell, her firm and an associated fundraising organization for...
