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February 26, 2026      4:00 PM

Former Texas House Sergeant Coffee speaks out on her firing this week

"While Brianah and I are both honored to have set examples for women aspiring to legislative leadership, we are prouder of the values we were able to establish during our time in the Sergeants’ office." Her full statement is below

you can download the statement from Kara Coffee right here.

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February 26, 2026      3:48 PM

Fundraiser for legendary Texas journalist Davey Joe Montgomery

As many of you know, renowned Austin journalist Davey Joe Montgomery, the drawling Texas Capitol scribe and onetime Moscow bureau chief, was jogging New Year’s Day and fell hard. Hours later, he was connected to a hospital respirator after being diagnosed with a brain injury from the fall. Then pneumonia hit.

More from the GoFundMe page that was set up to help Davey Joe after his injury:

More than 50 days later, he remains bedridden and unable to walk any distance. A long convalescence with therapy will be necessary.

The outpouring of love and concern from far-flung colleagues and friends inspires 81-year-old Montgomery to battle on from perhaps his seventh different hospital room. He’s even keeping up his sense of humor. Doctors, nurses and therapists look forward to spending time with him.

Still, the situation is tough.

Bills are piling up for his wife Linda, who uses a walker and is unable to drive. Their daughter comes up weekends from the Houston area where she teaches special ed students full-time. Their adult son who lives with them is hospitalized with an ailment.

Again, here’s the link for the fundraiser. Thanks so much for helping out.

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February 26, 2026      2:00 PM

One week out from the election of consequence in Texas, millions in contributions pour into legislative races as incumbents work to fend off challengers and avoid runoffs

8 day reports show PACs playing hard, what looks like a tossup Senate race in East Texas, and Speaker Burrows' team stepping up to defend some embattled incumbents

Whoever thought any Republican (or Democratic) member of the Texas House could still be thought of as a RINO at this point is beyond me.

But this is also the primary cycle in which trial lawyers through creative new entities (Coalition for Working Families PAC and Justice for Texas Victims) coupled with the Tim Dunns and Wilks brothers of the world to defeat Texans for Lawsuit Reform.

Also there are new are leadership-aligned PACs (Texas Conservative Majority PAC). More on those tomorrow. But here we go with the hottest campaign finance reports of the primary cycle: 8-day campaign finance reports:

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By James Russell

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February 25, 2026      4:23 PM

Texas House Administration Chair Geren notifies members that Michael Black is the new interim Sergeant at Arms

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February 25, 2026      9:09 AM

UT poll shows Crockett with a 12 point lead over Talarico while Paxton leads GOP primary heading into likely runoff

The poll results are here.

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February 24, 2026      4:48 PM

Senator Cruz endorses Toth over Crenshaw

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February 24, 2026      2:48 PM

Kronberg says a win by The AK Guy over Rep. Tony Gonzales could put the seat in play for Democrats

That's even though the redrawn district favors President Trump substantially, Hererra would be seen as extreme for the area while Rep. Gonzales is now damaged by scandal. HK and James Barragan got into that on Texas Capital Tonight

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February 23, 2026      2:51 PM

Kronberg argues Speaker Burrows' choice to govern by GOP Caucus rather than a bipartisan coalition may empower the Brian Harrisons of the House

And it could spark a speaker’s race: If we get a Paxton vs Talarico matchup at the top of the ticket, national money is sure to pour in, potentially growing a Texas House Democratic Caucus already angry with the speaker who betrayed them after winning the gavel with their votes

So far there have only been three consequential midterm elections in Texas in this century.

In 2008, Obama coattails produced a virtually tied Texas house – 76 Republicans to 74 Democrats. The next session members deposed then-Speaker Tom Craddick and replaced him with Speaker Joe Straus.

Just two years later, the anti-Obama backlash wiped out 36 Democratic incumbents (there were some retirements). Ironically some Democrats were so persuaded that they would gain the 3 seats necessary to win the majority there were speaker “War rooms” to try and collect pledges on election night for Democratic speaker candidates.

In 2018, forces converged yet again.

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By Harvey Kronberg

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