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:

By James Russell

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