Key Senate Race 8-day-out Report Totals

State and legislative candidates were required to file 8-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. The full reports are not yet available online, but we’re able to report summary totals for most candidates this morning. In this post, we summarize the hottest primary...

Endorsement News for February 4

SD1 open: The Texas Medical Assoc.’s TEXPAC endorsed Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola). SD19: The San Antonio Express-News endorsed Sen. Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio). SD24 open: The Texas Medical Assoc.’s TEXPAC endorsed both Dawn Buckingham and Rep. Susan King...

Senate Campaign Finance Update

Candidates with primary opponents were required to file 30-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. These reports disclose contributions received and expenditures made between January 1 and January 21. Senate highlights include: SD1 open: Rep. Bryan Hughes...

SD26: Candidates Clash Civilly at AARP Debate

Agreeing more than they disagreed, Sen. Jose Menendez (D-San Antonio) and Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) discussed issues important to seniors this morning at a forum hosted by AARP and moderated by KENS-TV anchor Sarah Lucero. Payday lending proved to be...

Endorsement News for January 25

PRES: Former Gov. Rick Perry endorsed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. RRC: The Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education endorsed former Rep. Lon Burnam. SC5: Texas Values Action endorsed challenger Rick Green. SD26: The San Antonio AFL-CIO endorsed Sen. Jose Menendez. HD5...

Endorsement News for January 6

HOSPAC: The Texas Hospital Assoc. PAC recently released its complete list of 2016 endorsements. The PAC endorsed most incumbents, but it also endorsed three challengers: HD4: Former Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Terrell) over Rep. Stuart Spitzer (R-Kaufman) HD92: Scott Fisher...

Election Update for December 13

A few things we wanted to share with you today: The filing deadline is tomorrow at 6 p.m. local time. There are typically some surprises, some last-minute decisions to run and some decisions not to run. We should know much of the slate of Democratic and Republican...

Election Update for December 2

We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update (No. 84-42). Highlights include: Updated list of incumbents with major party challengers who have filed against them Updated list of incumbents who, as far as we can tell,...