Mar 2, 2022 | Political Climate
Texas saw record turnout for last night’s (Tuesday’s) gubernatorial election, and it also saw record levels of non-participation. Some votes remain to be counted, but turnout numbers are expected to rise outside of rounding errors. Just shy of 3M Texans cast a ballot...
Nov 15, 2020 | Political Climate
Joe Biden beat President Trump by a little over 850K votes in the seven counties with at least 500K registered voters. That’s nearly double the 443K-vote margin Hillary Clinton had in those counties four years earlier and a little over 100K above Beto O’Rourke’s...
Jan 31, 2019 | Campaign News
Days after announcing up to 95K registered voters might be non-citizens, the Secretary of State’s office has been telling counties that the lists contain numerous errors, potentially amounting to tens of thousands of voters. Erroneously included were voters who...
Aug 30, 2018 | Campaign News
GOV: The campaign of Gov. Greg Abbott (R) released its first ad for the general election, “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” The ad premiered online and during tonight’s (Thursday) NFL preseason game between the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans. SD6 “open”: Secretary of...
May 3, 2018 | Campaign News
Saturday is Election Day. We will have live coverage of election results from the HD13 special election and other key local and special elections throughout the evening beginning at 7 p.m. CDT at txelects.com/live. GOV: The Dallas Morning News reiterated its...
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...