Jun 20, 2017 | Campaign News
GOV: Larry “SECEDE” Kilgore appears to be running for governor again as a Republican. He received just over 1% of the vote in the 2014 Republican primary against Greg Abbott and two others. He also ran for governor in 2006, receiving 8% against then-Gov. Rick Perry...
Jun 17, 2017 | Campaign News
See our 2018 Challengers page for all 164 challengers and open seat candidates who we confirm have taken a formal step toward running for state and federal office from Texas in 2018. GOV: Plano landscape and construction business owner Danny Harrison announced via...
May 14, 2017 | Campaign News
SEN: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told supporters in an email that he has “no interest in being appointed to or running for the U.S. Senate” in response to speculation he may be a potential successor to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn if the latter left the Senate to head the Federal...
May 11, 2017 | Campaign Finance
KoryWatkins GOV: Lone Oak gun rights activist Kory Watkins has filed paperwork establishing a campaign committee to challenge Gov. Greg Abbott, and he announced he would seek the Libertarian Party’s nomination. Watkins was the head of Open Carry Tarrant County...
Apr 19, 2017 | Political Climate
A new poll from the Texas Lyceum shows a statistical dead heat in the U.S. Senate race, except that “haven’t thought enough about it” is the response of a plurality of registered voters. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso) are tied, 30-30,...
Mar 28, 2017 | Campaign News
Voter ID: The Senate gave final approval to Sen. Joan Huffman’s (R-Houston) bill to update the state’s Voter ID law, conforming it to a recent judicial order requiring an option for voters who are impeded from obtaining one of the required identifications GOV: Gov....
Feb 1, 2017 | By the Numbers
11.99 Amount, in millions of dollars, that Gov. Greg Abbott reported having on hand as of December 31 in excess of the total cash on hand reported as of the same date by all 36 U.S. Representatives from Texas combined. Abbott reported having $34.4M on hand, the second...
Jan 31, 2017 | Campaign News
Campaign Finance Reports Due: Today (Tuesday) is the deadline for federal candidates and officeholders to file their ear-end campaign finance reports, which cover contributions received and expenditures made since their post-general reports, if they were on the...
Jan 22, 2017 | Campaign News
Voter ID: A continuance requested by the U.S. Dept. of Justice has been granted, delaying until February 28 the start of Tuesday’s trial to determine whether the state passed its Voter ID law with discriminatory intent. The motion for continuance cited “the...
Jan 18, 2017 | Campaign Finance
Campaign finance reports covering either the last six months of 2016 or, for candidates who had a contested general election, the period from October 29 to the end of the year, were due Tuesday. We have begun to incorporate those fundraising numbers into our Crib...
Jan 17, 2017 | Campaign News
Filing Begins: Starting tomorrow (Wednesday), candidates may begin filing for offices on the May 6 uniform election date ballot. We have a list of those offices for the state’s 100 largest municipalities available here. Campaign Finance: January semiannual campaign...
Jan 12, 2017 | Campaign News
GOV: The campaign of Gov. Greg Abbott will report raising $9M during the second half of 2016 and has more than $34M on hand as of January 1. The latter figure is likely more than the entire U.S. House delegation has on hand, collectively, as of the same time. The 36...
