April 15, 2024      3:40 PM

With millions more on the way, runoffs come into focus after a mountain of money was poured into Texas House GOP primaries

As we reset and get ready for the next onslaught, QR’s James Russell dives into Abbott, Paxton, and their billionaire class donors’ war on the Texas House and Speaker Phelan’s efforts to protect incumbents

A lot has seen said, rightfully, about the bloody Republican March primary dominated by PACs and elected officeholders at every level.

There’s the entitled (Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. Mayes Middleton of River Oaks and the Family Empowerment Coalition PAC), vengeful and stingy (cheapskate Attorney General Ken Paxton), grifty (Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and whatever the new anti-everything Dunn-Wilks money gusher) and those on the supporting incumbents (namely Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, the Associated Republicans of Texas and others in their orbit).

In 2024, all said, PACs supporting vouchers, opposing Paxton’s impeachment, supporting and opposing Phelan as well as those who profit off chaos led by the House Keyboard Warrior Caucus spent $16 million toward their goals.

It’s easy to make the assessment that the race to the bottom cost a mountain of money and we’re only a little past halfway down the sewer to the swamp.

First, a breakdown:

By James Russell

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