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February 26, 2026 4:00 PM
"While Brianah and I are both honored to have set examples for women aspiring to legislative leadership, we are prouder of the values we were able to establish during our time in the Sergeants’ office." Her full statement is below
Subscribers
can download the statement from Kara Coffee.
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February 26, 2026 3:48 PM
As many of
you know, renowned Austin journalist Davey Joe Montgomery, the drawling
Texas Capitol scribe and onetime Moscow bureau chief, was jogging New Year’s
Day and fell hard. Hours later, he was connected to a hospital respirator after
being diagnosed with a brain injury from the fall. Then pneumonia hit.
More from the
GoFundMe page that was set up to help Davey Joe after his injury:
More
than 50 days later, he remains bedridden and unable to walk any distance. A
long convalescence with therapy will be necessary.
The
outpouring of love and concern from far-flung colleagues and friends inspires
81-year-old Montgomery to battle on from perhaps his seventh different hospital
room. He’s even keeping up his sense of humor. Doctors, nurses and therapists
look forward to spending time with him.
Still,
the situation is tough.
Bills are piling up for his wife Linda, who uses a walker and is
unable to drive. Their daughter comes up weekends from
the Houston area where she teaches special ed students full-time. Their adult
son who lives with them is hospitalized with an ailment.
Again, here’s
the link for the fundraiser. Thanks so much for helping
out.
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February 26, 2026 2:00 PM
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:
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February 25, 2026 9:09 AM
The poll results are
here.
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February 24, 2026 4:48 PM
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February 24, 2026 2:48 PM
That's even though the redrawn district favors President Trump substantially, Hererra would be seen as extreme for the area while Rep. Gonzales is now damaged by scandal. HK and James Barragan got into that on Texas Capital Tonight
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February 23, 2026 2:51 PM
And it could spark a speaker’s race: If we get a Paxton vs Talarico matchup at the top of the ticket, national money is sure to pour in, potentially growing a Texas House Democratic Caucus already angry with the speaker who betrayed them after winning the gavel with their votes
So far
there have only been three consequential midterm elections in Texas in this
century.
In 2008, Obama
coattails produced a virtually tied Texas house – 76 Republicans to 74
Democrats. The next session members deposed then-Speaker Tom Craddick
and replaced him with Speaker Joe Straus.
Just two
years later, the anti-Obama backlash wiped out 36 Democratic incumbents (there
were some retirements). Ironically some Democrats were so persuaded that they
would gain the 3 seats necessary to win the majority there were speaker “War
rooms” to try and collect pledges on election night for Democratic speaker
candidates.
In 2018,
forces converged yet again.
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