Ad and Endorsement News for February 7

Early voting for the March 1 primary begins Monday. RRC (Likely R): The Dallas Morning News endorsed Dawayne Tipton (R) over Comm. Wayne Christian (R). SD11 open (Likely R): The Mayes Middleton (R) campaign released a new ad leading with former President Trump’s...

30-day-out Reports: Few Surprises, Lots of Cash on Hand

Statewide and legislative candidates facing primary opposition raised just over $10.3M and spent at least $22.1M during the first 20 days of 2022, according to 30-day-out reports filed yesterday (Monday) and available online today. Collectively, the candidates have...

Key House Race Campaign Finance Results

Note: This report has been updated since we issued our Breaking News alert. State, legislative and local (where required) candidates facing general election opponents were required to file 30-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. Most of those have become...

Candidate Filing and Endorsement News for November 17

Filing for a place on the 2018 continues until 6 p.m. local time on December 11. Please see our Crib Sheets for candidates’ filing status. SD8 open: Texas Values Action endorsed Angela Paxton. SD25: Dripping Springs attorney and five-time gubernatorial appointee...

10 New Candidates Take Steps Toward 2018 Campaigns

GOV: Arlington resident Edward Lee Nash formed a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Gov. Greg Abbott (R). We were unable to determine his occupation and political affiliation definitively. HD10: Seven Points resident Matt Savino formed a campaign...

Other Campaign Finance Highlights

We previously covered the 30-day-out reports for most competitive and potentially competitive House races. Since we published it, we became aware of a mistake with HD144. We erroneously used Rep. Gilbert Peña’s (R-Pasadena) July semiannual report in our...

Election Update for September 18

We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update (No. 84-32). Highlights include: Several eyeing race for CD19 following Neugebauer’s retirement announcement Downton enters SD24 race while Mayes touts endorsements...

May 14 Update

We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Federal runoff candidates’ campaign finance reports are due to the Federal Election Commission tomorrow. Attached please find our latest update. Highlights include: TX Assoc. of Realtors announces runoff...