Feb 13, 2020 | Campaign News
Early voting for the March 3 primary election begins Tuesday. Federal candidates’ pre-primary reports are due on February 20, and state candidates’ 8-day-out reports are due February 24. Tomorrow (Friday) is the deadline for candidates to file for local offices on the...
Jan 28, 2020 | Campaign News, Special Elections
Republican Gary Gates and Democrats Lorraine Birabil and Anna Eastman cruised to easy victories in today’s special runoff elections for HD28, HD100 and HD148, respectively. The results leave all three seats in the same partisan column as the 2018 general election....
Jan 16, 2020 | Campaign Finance
Note: This report has been updated to correct the names of two contributors to the Jon Francis campaign (HD60). For whatever reason, our initial sorting of contributions on his report mis-aligned the contributor names and amounts. Farris and Jo Ann Wilks each...
Jan 12, 2020 | Campaign News
Wednesday is the deadline for state and local (where required) candidates and officeholders to file their January semiannual campaign finance reports. They typically become available online during the next day. HD28 special: The Gary Gates (R) campaign released a new...
Dec 18, 2019 | Campaign News
Today (Wednesday) was the deadline for state parties to submit their candidate rosters to the Secretary of State. We hope to have final candidate rosters loaded into our Crib Sheets soon. We still have not seen candidate lists from the Libertarian and Green Parties,...
Dec 17, 2019 | Campaign News
Today (Tuesday) was the deadline for county parties to electronically submit their candidate rosters to the Secretary of State, and state parties’ deadline is tomorrow (Wednesday). We still have not seen candidate lists from the Libertarian and Green Parties, and we...
Dec 11, 2019 | Campaign News
For the second consecutive election cycle, more Texas statewide offices, legislative seats and congressional seats are being contested by Democrats than Republicans, according to our quick analysis of preliminary candidate filing data. Of the 211 such seats on the...
Dec 10, 2019 | breaking-news, Campaign News
Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington) has formally withdrawn from the 2020 primary ballot and will not seek re-election, citing health issues. He was facing a primary challenge from Mansfield Mayor David Cook, who filed yesterday (Monday) just before the deadline. Because of...
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...
Dec 2, 2019 | Campaign News
One week remains for candidates to file for spots on the March 2020 primary ballot and minor party nominating conventions. See our Crib Sheets for candidates’ filing status. There are 30 incumbents that we expect are seeking re-election for whom we have not seen...
Nov 19, 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 280 candidates have already filed. New Republican PAC: Several House Republicans have launched the Leading Texas Forward PAC to defend...
Nov 14, 2019 | Campaign News
An arrest warrant has been issued for Rep. Poncho Nevárez (D-Eagle Pass), who has been charged with a third-degree felony for possessing between one and four grams of cocaine. Nevárez was caught on surveillance video dropping an envelope containing cocaine at the...
