Texas primaries are on March 1st, just around the corner. Does anyone care? Unlike the 2020 Presidential cycle headlined by Trump v... Tom Glass Oct 13, 20216 min read Vax Mandates Become Texas Line in Sand The problem for employers is that if they do the dirty work of the feds, they...
Republican: No primary candidates running State Board Of Education District 10 Democrat: "DC" Caldwell*, Raquel Saenz Ortiz Republican: Tom Maynard (Incumbent), Mary Bone, "DC" Caldwell* * Caldwell is running in both the Republican and Democratic primaries. If he wins either, under Texas law,...
The resurgence of the party’s rightmost faction comes after Dunn and his cohort spent the last several years struggling to make a dent in the primaries — including in 2022, when candidates supported by Dunn’s network lost every head-to-head matchup against Phelan-ba...
could claim to be, because he put the judges on the district court, sort of court and Supreme Court level to do this. He backed state legislators, knowing even often in primaries, knowing that they
and the hotly contested U.S. Senate race (where Dallas congressman Colin Allred faces polarizing GOP incumbent Ted Cruz), the GOP general electorate is not as hardcore as in the primary. He said bluntly, “It’s good for Dems if the hard-right candidates do well in their primaries.” ...
FOX 26 also hosted a candidate forum with the candidates prior to a special meeting that was held by all the Harris County Precinct Chairs to approve a new candidate, as Sheila Jackson Lee had already been chosen in the March primaries. ...
But primaries present liberals with an opportunity to exert their electoral influence. By Alexandra Samuels Politics & Policy| February 8, 2024 This Election Season, Texas Isn’t Sending Its Best Slate of Candidates Not everyone can vote, but seemingly anyone can run. Your guide to some of...
just took over. Their wing of the party has dominated electorally too. During the recent Republican primaries, insurgents beat fifteen House GOP incumbents—an impressive purge that could solidify the Texas Legislature’s place as, in Molly Ivins’s words, “the national laboratory for bad governm...
Texas has a plural executive branch system limiting the power of the governor, which is a weak executive compared to some other states. Except for the secretary of state, voters elect executive officers independently; candidates are directly answerable to the public, not the governor.[429] This ...
Regarding Paxton’s efforts to back primary challengers, Smith said he’ll watch to see whether these candidates will be able to unseat incumbents and how they’ll do once they’re past the primary. “Paxton said he was going to go after those people who tried to ...