Nov 21, 2019 | Campaign News
Filing for the 2020 election continues through December 9. Our Crib Sheets have up-to-date filing status of the candidates we are tracking. At least 302 candidates have already filed. SEN: Mansfield tax attorney John Castro established a campaign committee for a...
Nov 11, 2019 | Campaign News
Filing for the 2020 election is underway. Our Crib Sheets have up-to-date filing status of the candidates we are tracking. At least 119 candidates have already filed. HD1: Gov. Greg Abbott (R) endorsed Rep. Gary VanDeaver (R-New Boston) for re-election. HD26: Two-time...
Oct 16, 2019 | Campaign News
Early voting begins on Monday for the November 5 constitutional amendment, general and special election. The League of Women Voters has created a Constitutional Amendment Election Voters Guide which explains each amendment, provides arguments for and against each and...
Sep 12, 2019 | Campaign News
HD26: Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC endorsed Rep. Rick Miller (R-Sugar Land) for re-election. At least three Republicans have taken a formal step toward challenging him in the primary. Earlier this week, Miller took his name out of consideration as the next head of...
Sep 9, 2019 | Campaign News
Sen. Pat Fallon (R-Prosper), who ousted longtime Sen. Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls) in the 2018 Republican primary, announced he was exploring a primary challenge of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R) from the right. Fallon said he would meet with voters and Republican leaders...
Aug 4, 2019 | Campaign News
The New York Times’s Jonathan Martin reported that U.S. Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Coppell) is expected to announce his retirement tomorrow (Monday), which would make him the fourth Texas Republican in Congress to forego seeking re-election in less than two weeks. He...
Jul 31, 2019 | Campaign News
A pair of mid-afternoon announcements and one U.S. Senate vote left two important chairs empty and opened the possibility that another incumbent legislator might leave before his term is over. HD28: Rep. John Zerwas (R-Richmond), chair of the House Appropriations...
Jul 30, 2019 | Campaign News
U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Midland) has announced a press conference in Midland tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1:30 p.m. CDT, at which he is expected to announce he will retire. Conaway is serving his seventh term. Nationally, he would be the fifth Republican retiring so far...
Jul 16, 2019 | Campaign Finance
Most of 2019’s early money went to the 2022 ballot. July semiannual campaign finance reports were due yesterday (Monday) for state officeholders and candidates, including legislators and those running against them, and generally became available online today...
Jul 9, 2019 | Campaign News
SCCJ: Bellaire attorney and Court of Appeals Justice (Dist. 14, Pl. 3) Jerry Zimmerer amended his campaign committee for a potential challenge of Chief Justice Nathan Hecht (R) as a Democrat. Zimmerer won the Place 3 seat on the 14th Court of Appeals in 2018 by...
Jul 7, 2019 | Campaign News
In a reversal, the Trump Administration is once again pursuing the inclusion of a citizenship question on the Census form sent to all households, even as printing of those forms without the question continues. A new team of attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department...
Jun 14, 2019 | Campaign News
Early voting continues in jurisdictions holding runoff elections on June 22. We will have live coverage of Saturday’s runoff elections beginning at 7 p.m. CDT. We will focus primarily on: Abilene – P5 runoff between incumbent Kyle McAlister and challenger Cory...
