Jan 6, 2020 | Campaign News
HD28 special: Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Eliz Markowitz. HD92 open: Texas Right to Life PAC endorsed Jeff Cason to succeed the retiring Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R-Bedford). HD127: Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC endorsed Rep. Dan Huberty (R-Humble) for...
Nov 13, 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 160 candidates have already filed. Motor Voter: The Fifth Court of Appeals overturned an April 2018 lower court ruling requiring the...
Sep 3, 2019 | Campaign News
Filing Deadline: Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the deadline for candidates to file for the HD28, HD100 and HD148 special elections. SD24: Sen. Dawn Buckingham (R-Lakeway) announced she would seek re-election to a second term. HD17: Rep. John Cyrier (R-Lockhart) announced he...
Apr 2, 2019 | Campaign News
“Our Freedom Caucus rolled over and played dead. Then got up, wagged their tail, and acted like it was a victory,” wrote NE Tarrant Tea Party leader Julie McCarty in an open letter to the caucus. “For those of us in the trenches daily, it was horrifying and...
Mar 31, 2019 | Campaign News
Voter Registration: Thursday is the deadline to register to vote for the May 4 uniform election. SD13: Houston commercial financier William Booher established a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Sen. Borris Miles (D-Houston) as a Republican. CD14:...
Mar 14, 2019 | Campaign News
Ending months of speculation, former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso) announced he would seek the Democratic nomination to challenge President Trump (R). He is the second prominent Texan in the Democratic race, joining former San Antonio Mayor and U.S. Housing and...
Jan 25, 2019 | Campaign News
Approximately 95K registered voters may be non-citizens, and around 58K of those individuals have voted in at least one election since 1996, according to an analysis conducted by the Secretary of State’s office. It is unclear how many of the 95K are actually...
Oct 20, 2018 | Political Climate
A record 15.79M Texans are registered to vote, according to the Secretary of State’s office, which released voter registration totals by counties today (Friday). The number of registered voters increased 3.6% since the March primary, as at least 544K Texans...
Oct 8, 2018 | Campaign News
A new Emerson Coll. “e-poll” finds U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R) leading U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso), 47%-42%, and Gov. Greg Abbott (R) leading former Dallas Co. Sheriff Lupe Valdez (D), 53%-33%. In August, Emerson Coll. found Cruz leading, 38%-37%, and Abbott...
Oct 5, 2018 | Ads, Campaign News
Mission: Visiting Judge Bonner Dorsey voided the results of the June runoff in which Armando O’Caña ousted longtime Mayor Beto Salinas, 51%-49%. For two weeks, a series of witnesses testified, in varying degrees of clarity and consistency, about ways in which votes...
Sep 26, 2018 | Political Climate
Secretary of State Rolando Pablos said a record 15.6M Texans are registered to vote. With two weeks left before the registration deadline, the number of registered voters is already more than 500K higher than the number registered for the 2016 general election and...
Sep 24, 2018 | Ads, Campaign News
Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day. October 9 is the deadline for Texans to register to vote to participate in November 6 general election. GOV: The campaign of Gov. Greg Abbott (R) released a new ad, “Keeping Texans Safe,” focused on border security and...
