Jun 3, 2017 | Campaign News
Wallisville oil company president and conservative activist David “Mayes” Middleton has filed paperwork establishing a campaign committee for a potential primary challenge of two-term Rep. Wayne Faircloth (R-Dickinson). Middleton, a board member of the Texas Public...
Nov 1, 2016 | breaking-news, Campaign Finance
Eight-day-out campaign finance reports were due yesterday for state and legislative candidates (and some local candidates) with general election opponents. The reports cover contributions received and expenditures made between September 29 and October 29. From this...
Oct 25, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: The Dallas Morning News’s Jamie Lonegrove tweeted total campaign contributions to presidential nominees from Texas in the last three election cycles. He determined that Hillary Clinton’s $18.3M is almost equal to Barack Obama’s 2012 efforts ($18.6M) and ahead of...
Oct 23, 2016 | Campaign News
PRES: Calling her the “least objectionable choice,” the Beaumont Enterprise endorsed Hillary Clinton. The Bryan-College Station Eagle “reluctantly” endorsed Clinton. The Galveston Daily News endosed Clinton, “which is the newspaper’s first endorsement of a Democratic...
Oct 12, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Correction: We inadvertently used Rep. Gilbert Peña’s July semiannual report in our initial analysis. His 30-day-out report is not yet available online. We have corrected it below. State and legislative candidates with general election opponents were required to...
Jul 17, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Semiannual campaign finance reports were due Friday, covering either (1) the first six months of the year for candidates who had no primary opponent or (2) the period since the end of the 8-day-out reporting period of either the primary or primary runoff election (or...
Jul 13, 2016 | House Race Analyses, Straight-ticket Voting
Our continuing series on straight-ticket voting trends in competitive or potentially competitive districts turns to HD23, comprised of Chambers Co. and about half of Galveston Co., including all of the cities of Galveston, La Marque and Texas City. Rep. WayneFaircloth...
Oct 29, 2015 | Archived Updates
We emailed this to subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update. Highlights include: We look at some of the key races’ 8-day-out reports. Early voting continues, but pace continues to slow. New ads for Abbott, Hegar, Burton....
Jul 28, 2015 | Archived Updates
A few things we wanted to share with you today: HD12: Rep. Kyle Kacal (R-College Station) announced he would seek re-election. He may be facing a possible general election opponent in College Station resident Gene Perez, who filed a CTA this week. Perez indicated he...
Nov 5, 2014 | Election Night Returns, General Elections
2014 GENERAL ELECTION LIVE RETURNS November 4, 2014 1:30 a.m. – November 5 This is our final update for the evening. All races have been decided, though the final margins are still to be determined. The major missing pieces are Cameron and Dallas Cos. We know that the...
Nov 3, 2014 | Archived Updates
We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update. Highlights include: Early voting was largely flat compared with 2010. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time across the state tomorrow. The state of the statewide races...
Oct 31, 2014 | Archived Updates
Republicans have won 101 straight statewide elections, 106 if presidential elections are included. There are 15 statewide contests this year. Voters last elected Democrats to statewide office 20 years ago. Every state in the Nation has elected at least one Democrat to...
