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June 12, 2026 10:13 AM

Drinda Randall set to become Chair of the Republican Party of Texas after Chair George concedes

After losing in multple SDs this morning, Abraham George said "While this race has come to an end, our mission continues. Now is the time to come together, unite behind our Republican nominees, support the entire Republican ticket in November, advance our legislative priorities in the next session, and continue standing firmly for the conservative principles outlined in our platform."

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June 11, 2026 4:20 PM

Kronberg: Speaker Burrows has a difficult tightrope to walk at the Texas GOP convention

With the promise of likely Democratic gains in the next election, Burrows will probably have to promise the GOP delegates he’ll further marginalize those who helped elect him in the first place

Aside from the usual antics and internal backstabbing at any state political party convention, the Republican Party of Texas gathering unfolding now in Houston includes another moment of drama and potential insight for Texas political professionals and addicts.

Speaker Dustin Burrows will address the convention on Friday. Now, it is not a given that statewide officers speak to the party’s most ardent activists. After passing the post-Uvalde gun bill, Sen. John Cornyn was man enough to show up and get booed for 25 of the 30 minutes he was on stage but Gov. Greg Abbott’s last appearance inside the convention hall was in 2018 for fear he’d be blasted as insufficiently “MAGA.”

Burrows speaking is of particular interest considering it is virtually assured that Republicans will lose seats in the Texas House this cycle. The only question is how many.

Conventional wisdom has it that next session we’ll see somewhere around 78 Republicans to 72 Democrats which would radically change how the House can operate. But more about that later.

Democratic Speakers rarely spoke to the convention. They would traditionally appear on stage with the Democratic state representatives for a brief introduction and a round of applause and then blend into the background. The first Republican speaker, Tom Craddick, did speak to the convention. If memory serves, it was a relatively uneventful celebration of the GOP finally gaining the majority in the 2002 elections. Since then, GOP Speakers Joe Straus, Dennis Bonnen, and Dade Phelan either kept a low profile at the convention or did not appear at all.

But there is a great deal more drama surrounding this convention, this upcoming election, and this speaker.

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By Harvey Kronberg

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June 11, 2026 4:14 PM

Cornyn predicts a "miserable" final two years in office for President Trump and stands by his attacks on Paxton

"He’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term, I think, because I think November is going to be a disaster," Cornyn said

From the New York Times:

Mr. Cornyn believes that impact will reach far beyond his race. He is the epitome of a reliable conservative with what he listed as his “99.3 percent” voting record in line with the president. Unlike Mr. Cassidy of Louisiana, he did not vote to remove Mr. Trump from office after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters. Still, he said, the president threw him under the bus. “If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Mr. Cornyn said. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants. But obviously that’s not what the senator’s role is supposed to be, especially in terms of checks and balances.”

Also:

Mr. Cornyn stood by his attacks on Mr. Paxton and said that while he supported the party ticket, he would not campaign or raise money for his primary opponent — a loss for Mr. Paxton since Mr. Cornyn was a prolific fund-raiser. But he fears Republicans are in for a rough midterm and Mr. Trump for a difficult final two years, in part because of self-inflicted wounds such the president’s endorsement of Mr. Paxton putting the Texas seat at risk.

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June 11, 2026 3:58 PM

Federal judge blocks Paxton lawsuit against ActBlue

Judge says Paxton acted in retaliation for (and in an attempt to suppress) ActBlue funding for James Talarico’s Senate campaign

The ruling is here.

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June 10, 2026 9:54 AM

Abbott asks regulators to require data centers to pay for all electric infrastructure costs

In a letter to leaders at PUC and ERCOT, the Gov also outlined some of his proposals on data centers for next session

Data centers in Texas have been described by at least one Republican leader in the Texas House as a key reason that “rural Texas is on fire politically.” Feeling the heat, legislators have already started to dig into what might be done about it next session.

Meantime, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday asked regulators to “take action to require data centers to pay for all of their electric infrastructure costs to ensure that no residential ratepayer is burdened by those costs.”

From his letter:

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