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January 7, 2026 4:05 PM
And after developments in South America, “It is going to take some time to develop assets globally, and particularly those in Venezuela after decades of degradation and underinvestment,” said TXOGA President Staples. If investment dollars flow to Venezuela, as President Trump has declared will happen, “those are dollars that could be in other parts of the world.”
Even with upheaval
in Venezuela following the United States capturing former president Nicolás
Maduro and wife Cilia Flores, the outlook for Texas oil and gas
sector looks good, said Texas Oil and Gas Association President Todd
Staples as he unveiled the organization’s annual economic impact report
And 2025
was another banner year for the industry.
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January 6, 2026 1:30 PM
On Spectrum News in Austin, Texas Capital Tonight host James Barragan and QR Publisher Harvey Kronberg kicked off the year delving into the statewide primary campaigns as they shift into high gear with only 6 weeks until early voting.
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January 6, 2026 1:15 PM
“Educators don’t give up their constitutional rights when they get their first teaching job,” said Texas AFT President Capo; Commissioner Morath has argued “there is a difference between comments made in poor taste and those that call for and incite further violence”
Teachers’
groups on Tuesday announced they've filed suit in federal court against the Texas
Education Agency and Commissioner Mike Morath, "challenging
TEA’s unlawful investigations into educators’ protected First Amendment
activity in the days following last September’s assassination of Charlie
Kirk."
Texas
AFT President Zeph
Capo and national AFT President Randi Weingarten held a joint news conference in Austin this afternoon at the Texas AFL-CIO to talk about the suit, which is apparently the first of its kind in the nation to challenge such a
policy.
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January 6, 2026 1:00 PM
Hotel costs and availability of rooms in question for the largest Republican gathering in the United States
Tony
Ortiz and his crew at
Current Revolt made note
of what may turn into a logistical nightmare for the Republican Party
of Texas Convention in Houston this summer. Depending on your browswer you may have to right click and open the link in a new tab.
A post
on the Collin GOP Facebook Page last week notified Republican Party of Texas
(RPT) Convention attendees to prepare for extra expenses and crowds as the
convention was booked at the same time as the World Cup.
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January 6, 2026 12:52 PM
We've heard you loud and clear: You want the show fresh for your weekend listening. If you haven't yet subscribed to the show, make sure to use the links on the Quorum Report homepage to listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It's available across all other podcast apps as well. Thanks so much to those of you already making the show part of your weekly routine
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January 5, 2026 3:50 PM
Primary voters, choose your fighter: In a moment portrayed by their party as an existential crisis, Rep. Talarico was among the first to collaborate with Republicans in ‘21 positioning himself to cut a deal for a new district that he could win while Rep. Crockett chose a different path leading to higher office
Texas
House Democrats were absolutely miserable.
They faced
threats of arrest while hiding out in a less-than-glamourous hotel out of state
and fighting with each other in the midst of
a protracted quorum break aimed at stopping – or at least slowing down – a
Republican elections law overhaul that the minority party blasted as “The
New Jim Crow.” Liberal groups aided by former Rep. Beto O’Rourke
were demanding Democrats “hold the line.” O’Rourke raised hundreds of thousands
of dollars for the Texas House Democratic Caucus’ effort, either
to help them or to impose discipline, depending on how you looked at it.
Walking
into the lobby of that not-so-great hotel, you could sense the tension among
the members and quickly got the feeling there was no way they had the stamina
to do this for more than a couple weeks. It lasted 42 days in the humid Washington
heat.
This was 2021
not 2025.
In a moment
portrayed by Democrats in Texas and nationally as an existential crisis, Rep. James
Talarico and then-Rep. Jasmine Crockett, at that time both members
of the Texas House, could not have handled the fight more differently. Now
they’re each asking Texas Democratic primary voters for the chance to be their
chosen fighter in the general election in November.
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January 5, 2026 3:00 PM
Yes, there is still some hangover from the impeachment of AG Paxton who blamed TLR for his “persecution” while some GOP candidates elected in Abbott’s scorched earth campaign for school vouchers are now opposed by TLR. Meantime, Speaker Burrows seems to have made peace, for the most part, with the Tim Dunn political operation by punishing the Democrats who elected him
As the 2026 primaries ramp up in the new year, the sales
pitch from Republican candidates is a little different this time around for a variety
of reasons. So, it’s probably helpful to at least float a preliminary list of the Texas House GOP primaries we’ll start covering in-depth as Janary unfolds and to offer some thoughts on the dynamics driving the campaigns already underway across Texas. And of course I'd like to hear from you about the races you find interesting.
This election
cycle isn’t expected to be anything like 2024 when “everyone in the House seems
to have a primary of some note,” as one campaign veteran put it that year. True,
at that time the governor was ending the careers of longtime conservative
legislators in pursuit of school vouchers on behalf of his Pennsylvania sugar
daddy Jeff Yass. And Attorney General Ken Paxton was similarly barnstorming
the state on a retribution tour after the impeachment he blamed largely on Texans
for Lawsuit Reform. TLR has always publicly denied having any role in
that process, it should be noted.
Now that
school vouchers have passed into law, Gov. Greg Abbott’s operation is
shifting back to focusing mostly on the general election when he’ll target a
few Democrats and seek to shore up Republicans up and down the ballot with this
$100 million war chest. Outside of endorsements, don’t look for Abbott to do
any heavy lifting in primaries to defend incumbents.
Also, seemingly gone
are the days of widespread anti-House Speaker “Empower Texans”-style
campaigns run by the political operation funded primarily by Midland billionaire
Tim Dunn for about 15 years.
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January 5, 2026 2:32 PM
On social media, White announced his fundraising hasn't been going well and said he hopes Rep. Hinojosa can focus her energy and resources on running against Abbott in the fall
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January 5, 2026 1:54 PM
"I want to take that fight to the US Senate"
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January 5, 2026 1:00 PM
TBC Founder and President Lee Bratcher is stepping down to pursue another professional opportunity but will stay on the group's board
Here’s the
full announcement.
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January 5, 2026 12:00 PM
"Sheets has raised $563,300 in total cash contributions from 239 unique donors, with more than $215,000 in additional in-kind support," per the Sheets campaign
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January 5, 2026 9:32 AM
The move reported by the Dallas Morning News leaves the downtown campus in limbo
The DMN
with the story:
After
spending months scouring North Texas for office space, telecommunications giant
AT&T will build its new global headquarters in Plano. The move was
confirmed in an email message from CEO John Stankey to employees on Monday. The
site at 5400 Legacy Drive will span across 54 acres of land, Stankey said in
the email.
In a
statement provided to The News, Stankey said that it is targeting partial
occupancy for the new headquarters “as early as the second half of 2028.” Stankey
added that “this location will provide us the necessary room to cost
effectively consolidate all Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex administrative space,
including our three largest locations in Central Dallas, Plano and Irving, and
create a corporate campus designed for collaboration, innovation and
engagement.”
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January 2, 2026 6:53 AM
He's now raised $13 million since his Senate campaign launched. It was from 340,000 donations from "a staggering 215,000+ individual contributors from 240 counties in Texas and all 50 states. 98% of contributions to the campaign were $100 or less," per the campaign. The campaign did not say how much cash he has on hand
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