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November 21, 2025 11:00 AM
Lobby hires, association news, appointments, and more
How is Thanksgiving
already next week?
So many of
you are already sending – or receiving – those magical “let’s circle back to
this next year” emails. But others are ramping up campaigns and getting ready for
the hard slog that comes after the filing period is over no matter what happens
with the rest of the redistricting legal maneuvering. All eyes on the Supreme
Court for that and we’ve got our antennae up for breaking news, of
course. But things will start to slow down in the coming weeks. It’s what inevitably
happens.
Meantime
there’s some career news to pass along this week that you won’t want to miss. And
because the end of the year is approaching, I did finally pull out the calendar
and figure out that the final two chances for you to
place an item in POTM before January would be December 12th and the
19th. No edition next week for sure. Dec 5th is up in the
air. Regardless, the bottom line is that if you need an item to appear in
Quorum Report before year’s end, send it to ksbraddock@gmail.com with POTM in the
subject line ASAP. Some of you also asked about the holiday schedule for Quorum
Report Radio – available on all podcast apps. We’ll have a show for you next
week but after that the remaining shows of the year will drop on Dec 8th
and Dec 15th. The links to subscribe to the show are on the QR
homepage.
Here’s the
latest edition of People on the Move.
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By Scott Braddock
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November 19, 2025 3:28 PM
“Paxton is statistically tied with either of the Democrat candidates and jeopardizes the ability of Republicans to hold the seat,” wrote pollster Chris Perkins
A new poll
done by Chris Perkins’ Ragnar Research floating in Washington now
shows Sen. John Cornyn easily defeating either former Rep. Colin
Allred or Rep. James Talarico while Attorney General Ken Paxton
would struggle to defeat either of them without significant help.
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November 19, 2025 3:17 PM
"In 37 years as a federal judge, I’ve served on hundreds of three-judge panels. This is the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed," Smith wrote.
Here are
some key excerpts followed by the full dissent by Judge Jerry Smith at
the bottom of the post.
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November 19, 2025 10:19 AM
On Texas Capital Tonight, QR Publisher Harvey Kronberg and host James Barragan talked about that and other campaign news of the week. Note: This segment aired on Monday before the vote on the Epstein files and the major redistricting news out of the El Paso federal court.
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November 18, 2025 2:12 PM
The judges took particular issue with the DOJ letter that preceded the redistricting: “It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors. Indeed, even attorneys employed by the Texas Attorney General—who professes to be a political ally of the Trump Administration – describe the DOJ Letter as ‘legally unsound,’ ‘baseless,’ “erroneous,’ ‘ ham-fisted,’ and ‘a mess.’”
Editor's
note: The full order from the court is available to subscribers at the end of
this story - SB
A
three-judge panel of federal judges in El Paso on Tuesday afternoon blocked
Texas from moving forward with the newly-redrawn
congressional maps demanded by President Donald Trump over the summer,
sparking a bitter fight at the Texas Capitol, a protracted quorum
break, and a redistricting arms race around the country.
The last
time a mid-decade redistricting played out under somewhat similar circumstances
in 2003, the Democratic governors of other states did not counter the effort
with maps of their own. But this year California Gov. Gavin Newsom took
it as an opportunity to tell Republicans “FAFO” and successfully pushed
voters on the West Coast to pass a map canceling out what started in Texas.
The Texas map,
which gives Republicans a chance to pick up as many as five new seats in
Congress, is on hold now as Attorney General Ken Paxton's office moves
quickly to get the case before the United States Supreme Court.
The legal
maneuvering can now happen very quickly.
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November 17, 2025 7:07 PM
In part, the idea was floated that TDEM Chief Kidd should lead FEMA but he doesn't want to leave Texas, per Politico.
Via Politico
tonight
The Trump
administration is considering moving the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s
headquarters to Texas and putting the state’s top emergency manager in charge
of the agency, two former senior FEMA officials told POLITICO’s E&E News.
Moving the
agency from its headquarters in Washington would create “huge challenges”
coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA and
is located across town from the agency, according to one former official, who
was granted anonymity so they could speak freely.
Shortly
after President Donald Trump took office, White House officials interviewed Nim
Kidd, head of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, to run the nation’s
disaster agency. After POLITICO’s E&E News reported the interview, Kidd
posted a statement on his LinkedIn account acknowledging the interview but
saying, “My work in Texas is not done.”
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November 17, 2025 12:34 PM
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November 14, 2025 10:34 PM
He was 92
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November 14, 2025 3:36 PM
Lobby hires, agency news, and more
As we approach
the end of the year, the people who are sorta the most
on-the-move would be the ones putting their names on the ballot during the filing
period, which could get upended if the federal court in El Paso strikes down
all or parts of the Congressional map passed over the summer at the behest of
President Donald Trump.
We’re
about a week into candidate filing and no word from the court as of now. Some
court observers said it sounded like the judges didn’t really care much about
how the timing of their possible ruling could cause problems for all candidates
up and down the ballot if filing and therefore the primary is delayed.
Meantime, it’s
also time for me to start looking at the calendar and figuring out which weeks
we absolutely won’t publish a People on the Move article because of
the holidays. For now, I’ll just say that if you have career news you’d like to
ensure gets published before year’s end, send it over ASAP to ksbraddock@gmail.com and use POTM in the
subject line. I’ll have more on the holiday schedule in the weeks to come.
Here’s the
latest edition.
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