Sep 21, 2017 | Campaign News
RRC: Texans for Fiscal Responsibility/Empower Texans endorsed Chair Christi Craddick. SD9: Sen. Kelly Hancock (R-North Richland Hills) announced he would seek re-election in an email blast to supporters. HD63: Rep. Tan Parker (R-Flower Mound) announced he would seek...
Sep 17, 2017 | Campaign Finance
Legislators and state officials were required to file legislative special session reports by the end of Thursday if they accepted any contributions between July 10, the date Gov. Abbott called the special session, and August 15, the date the special session ended. No...
Sep 12, 2017 | Campaign News
RRC: Christi Craddick, chair of the Railroad Commission, announced she would seek re-election. HD62: Rep. Larry Phillips (R-Sherman) said he intends to support Reggie Smith, the Grayson Co. Republican Party chair, in the race to succeed him. Phillips is not seeking...
Jul 18, 2017 | breaking-news, Campaign Finance
The seven non-judicial statewide elected officials on the 2018 ballot collectively have more than $72M on hand, nearly triple the amount from the corresponding elected officials in 2010, the last year the slate of statewide officers ran for re-election. Leading the...
Jun 17, 2017 | Campaign News
See our 2018 Challengers page for all 164 challengers and open seat candidates who we confirm have taken a formal step toward running for state and federal office from Texas in 2018. GOV: Plano landscape and construction business owner Danny Harrison announced via...
May 21, 2017 | Campaign News
MarkMiller RRC: Austin petroleum engineer and two-time Libertarian nominee Mark Miller has reauthorized his campaign committee for another run for the commission. Miller received just over 5% of the vote, guaranteeing the Libertarian Party candidates automatic access...
Jan 17, 2017 | Campaign News
Filing Begins: Starting tomorrow (Wednesday), candidates may begin filing for offices on the May 6 uniform election date ballot. We have a list of those offices for the state’s 100 largest municipalities available here. Campaign Finance: January semiannual campaign...
Dec 7, 2016 | Campaign News
RRC: Comm. Christi Craddick was elected chair of the Railroad Commission of Texas by her peers, Comm. Ryan Sitton and outgoing Comm. David Porter, for a two-year term. By tradition, the gavel rotates among the sitting commissioners. First elected in 2012, she is up...
Nov 7, 2016 | General Elections, Political Climate
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Nov 1, 2016 | 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 20, 2016 | Campaign News
Early voting in person begins Monday. MPACT: The Texas Assoc. of Manufacturers MPACT announced its endorsement of 29 incumbent legislators and open-seat candidates of the current incumbent’s party. All endorsed candidates were Republicans except for Sen. Chuy Hinojosa...
