April 9, 2026      12:30 PM

Kronberg argues Texas House Administration crackdown on quorum breakers could become instant fundraiser for Talarico and Texas House Democrats heading into November

Patrick and Burrows are split on the challenge faced by House Republicans. And even though the Democratic brand is badly broken, punishing them may very well help Talarico and make Speaker Burrows re-election effort more difficult

Although there are still a little more than 200 days until the midterm elections, by most accounts it looks like a bad year for Republicans. The debate is no longer how few Democratic gains there will be in the Texas House but how many. Increasingly, that ever-reliable bar talk in Austin has Democratic gains starting at eight and going up from there.

Although we said so at the time, redistricting maps drawn based on Trump 2024 numbers were a fantasy and the growing conventional wisdom is that the effort will not produce a gain of five Republican Congressional seats and in fact may end up costing Republicans in the end.

Who knows? Well, one thing we know for sure is that House Republicans were outraged when Democrats broke quorum and ended up turning a parochial local fight into a national movement.

So almost a year later, it’s obviously the perfect time to pick the scab. What happens after that could prove pivotal.

By Harvey Kronberg

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