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April 8, 2026 4:06 PM
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.
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April 8, 2026 3:50 PM
Burrows tweeted: "We will not lose the Texas House. We will fight to retain every Republican seat. I look forward to the fall campaign where we get to talk about Texas’ prosperity under Republican leadership; and, I trust the voters of Texas to continue to vote for conservative government up and down the ballot!"
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April 8, 2026 3:43 PM
Not to be confused with closed primaries, but instead focus is on letting one party force the other to conduct the elections their way
Citing
election day chaos resulting from the Dallas and William County GOP to force
precinct-level voting in the March primary that resulted in confused voters and
a lawsuit that went to the Texas Supreme Court, Rep. John Bucy
announced he’ll file legislation next session to let each party decide how
they’ll control their primaries.
“This is
not about blaming one party or defending another. This is about (not) putting
voters in the middle of decisions they don’t control,” said Bucy, the Austin area
Democrat. “Voters can be affected by decisions made by the leadership of the
opposing party, people they didn’t elect and can’t hold accountable.”
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April 8, 2026 2:10 PM
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April 7, 2026 4:30 PM
On Texas Capital Tonight, Quorum Report publisher Harvey Kronberg notes that since previous fight in the Legislature about AI in campaigns, Lt. Gov. Patrick's allies have been subjected to those kinds of attacks
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April 7, 2026 4:16 PM
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April 7, 2026 11:45 AM
In the GOP runoff for HD41, TLR now backs Gary Groves after their first choice Sarah Sagredo-Hammond didn't advance to the next round
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April 7, 2026 8:15 AM
That includes $3.4 million raised in the month since primary election day
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April 6, 2026 4:38 PM
The news of Sen. Hinojosa, R-Corpus Christi, becoming the new point man for "banning taxpayer funded lobbyists" comes as he tries to broker peace between local governments in Nueces County amid a water crisis
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April 6, 2026 12:24 PM
He faces opposition in the party because he's trying to avoid the same confusion in runoff voting: “I made that decision fully aware of the consequences and ramifications, just like the decision I made to protect my Soldiers in combat in Iraq.”
After reversing
the Dallas County Republican Party’s position on holding a joint primary
with Democrats – to avoid the kind of widespread confusion that plagued voters in
Big D in March – Chairman Allen West expects to face possible removal
from leadership by the local GOP executive committee.
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April 6, 2026 7:19 AM
Despite what's thought to be a historically good year for Democrats and a $50 million investment nationwide, Dems are playing more defense than offense in Texas House races so far
The Democratic
Legislative Campaign Committee on Monday morning rolled out their first
50 targeted races in Texas and other “key battleground states” including Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa. Three
Texas House races are among them – two where Democrats are playing
defense and one in which the Democratic nominee is widely expected to win a seat
held right now by the GOP.
The Texas candidates
they’re supporting so far are:
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