Oct 7, 2021 | Campaign News
SD24 open: Castroville homebuilder Raul Reyes Jr. announced he would run for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Dawn Buckingham (R-Lakeway). Reyes unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for CD23 in 2020, losing the runoff to eventual U.S. Rep. Tony...
Dec 9, 2019 | Campaign News
Today (Monday) was the filing deadline for most candidates seeking partisan office in 2020. At least 53 were “new” candidates for federal, state or legislative office in the sense that we were not tracking them, had not reported on them this cycle and did not have...
Apr 23, 2019 | Campaign News
Round Rock nonprofit executive and author M.J. Hegar, the 2018 Democratic nominee for CD31, announced she would challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R). In a video announcement titled “(Re)Introduction” that heavily draws on her viral “Doors” video, a motorcycle-riding...
Dec 7, 2017 | Campaign News
Filing for a place on the 2018 continues until 6 p.m. local time on Monday. So far, at least 377 candidates have filed for statewide, legislative and board of education offices, and at least 167 have filed to represent Texas in Congress. This means about 30% of all...
Mar 27, 2017 | Campaign News, Special Elections
Voter ID: By a nearly party-line 21-10 vote, the Senate gave its preliminary approval today (Monday) to a bill to update the state’s Voter ID law. Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. (D-Brownsville) was the only Democrat to vote for the bill, joining the chamber’s 20 Republicans....
