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September 29, 2026 5:30 PM

Texas Ag Commissioner nominees spar over eligibility of Sheets, an issue raised during his primary against Commissioner Miller

They're mixing it up with early voting approaching: Democrat Clayton Tucker asks Texas GOP Chair Randall to declare sheets ineligible, Sheets' campaign fires back that Tucker is an "'organizer' for a radical left-wing group"

The major party nominees for Texas Agriculture Commissioner spent part of their Tuesday arguing over whether GOP candidate Nate Sheets has met the requirements requirements to hold the office – an argument that was raised earlier this year in Sheets’ Republican primary against outgoing Commissioner Sid Miller.

In a letter to Republican Party of Texas Chair D'rinda Randall, Clayton Tucker's attorney laid out the Democratic nominee’s case for declaring Sheets ineligible to lead the Texas Department of Agriculture.

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By Scott Braddock

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September 29, 2026 5:28 PM

Study finds opening electricity transmission projects to competitive bidding could save ratepayers up to $22 billion

A newly released study commissioned by Texans for Affordable Transmission, which is a project of Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation, finds that $22 billion in savings could be found if this was opened up for competitive bidding.

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September 29, 2026 7:38 AM

The main super PAC for US Senate Democrats plans to start spending in Texas to boost Talarico

The news via the New York Times:

Top national Democrats are preparing to make an initial investment in the Texas Senate race, a strategic shift that speaks to the party’s growing confidence in a state that has dashed its hopes for decades.mThe main super PAC for Senate Democrats, Senate Majority PAC, said on Tuesday that it would begin an advertising effort meant to help James Talarico, the Democratic nominee, by targeting his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton.

The super PAC, which is aligned with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, had so far resisted spending money in Texas, viewing the party’s path to a majority as running through smaller states where advertising is cheaper.

The group declined to provide a figure or a range for its planned spending in Texas.

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September 28, 2026 4:39 PM

Eakin says Texas built a broken voter system, now the state blames the counties

In this guest op-ed, Republican data scientist John Eakin argues that TEAM's failures are a state architecture problem and the Secretary of State's answer so far has been to hand the cleanup to the counties

A motivational poster company in Austin has spent nearly three decades selling essentially the same joke, framing failure as inspiration and calling it leadership. The Despair, Inc. catalog endures because its captions describe some real organizations better than their mission statements do. These days, you could use the same jokes to describe what’s been happening at the Texas Secretary of State’s Office.

When Texas spends $17 million on a statewide voter-registration system, voters should expect three things: accurate records, accountable management, and a vendor contract the state is willing to enforce. Nothing in the August Texas House Elections Committee hearing on Texas Election Administration Management, or TEAM, met that standard.

Five captions from the Despair, Inc. catalog describe it exactly.

Perseverance: “The courage to ignore the obvious wisdom of turning back.”

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By John Eakin

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