by Lauren Melear | Mar. 8, 2018 | Local
For Midland County, election season isn’t over. Of the four local contested races in the Tall City, one failed to produce a single-candidate winner: Midland County Judge. The three-way race resulted in James Beauchamp receiving 40 percent of the vote, Terry Johnson...
by Erin Anderson | Mar. 8, 2018 | Local, Uncategorized
Texas is finally starting to crack down on voter fraud. The state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that his office is prosecuting three Robstown residents on nine counts of voter fraud committed in Nueces County during the 2016 elections. A grand jury...
by Cary Cheshire | Mar. 8, 2018 | State
Across the Lone Star State, Republican voters re-nominated the party’s leading conservatives as their candidates to face off across from Democrats on the November ballot and also let them know which issues they wanted them to focus on after they are re-elected. On...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 8, 2018 | Local
Despite being challenged by establishment State Rep. Cindy Burkett (R–Mesquite) in the Republican primary, State Sen. Bob Hall (R–Edgewood) won Tuesday night’s election in a victory for conservatives in Senate District 2. Entering the legislature after defeating...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 8, 2018 | Local
Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey announced today he would be seeking re-election at the party’s convention in June. In an email sent out to his supporters this morning, Dickey highlighted his success in strengthening the party’s infrastructure statewide...
by Lauren Melear | Mar. 8, 2018 | Local
“Every vote counts” can often sound like a cliché, but the nail-biting, three-way race for West Texas’s Senate District 31 proved otherwise. With 80,636 total votes cast in the Republican primary race, about 340 votes made the difference between a single-candidate...
by Reagan Reed | Mar. 7, 2018 | Local
The decades long rule of Montgomery County’s “good old boys” club came crashing down in the March 6 primary, with voters sending a clear message that they are fed up with the county’s crony politics. State Rep. Mark Keough (R-The Woodlands) handily defeated embattled...
by Erin Anderson | Mar. 7, 2018 | Local
Republican primary voters in Dallas have booted their abrasive, liberal-voting State Rep. Jason Villalba in favor of conservative businesswoman Lisa Luby Ryan. Ryan won Tuesday’s GOP primary in Texas House District 114 with 53 percent of the vote, defeating insider...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Mar. 7, 2018 | Commentary
Looking at last night’s election results: Wins! Can we be frustrated by the pace of winning? Yes. But let’s be encouraged by the fact that we aren’t tired of winning yet! Any disappointments from last night should spur us all to work harder and smarter in the months...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Mar. 7, 2018 | Commentary
Looking at last night’s election results: Wins! Can we be frustrated by the pace of winning? Yes. But let’s be encouraged by the fact that we aren’t tired of winning yet! Any disappointments from last night should spur us all to work harder and smarter in the months...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 6, 2018 | Local
After a months-long campaign, State Rep. Pat Fallon (Prosper) defeated longtime incumbent State Sen. Craig Estes (Wichita Falls) in the Republican primary to represent Senate District 30. A long-time obstacle to conservative reforms in the Senate, Estes earned a...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 6, 2018 | Local, Uncategorized
The Texas House Freedom Caucus will go unscathed, as the four members opposed in the Republican primary election have sailed through to victory Tuesday night. Formed in the first weeks of the legislative session last year, the caucus, which consists of twelve...
by Brandon Waltens | Mar. 6, 2018 | Local
Steve Toth will be returning to the Texas Legislature after triumphing in his election for House District 15, defeating Jackie Waters in the Republican primary election. Toth served in the Texas House in 2012, before giving up his seat to run for the Texas Senate in...
by 1836 Studios | Mar. 6, 2018 | Texas Scorecard Video
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by 1836 Studios | Mar. 6, 2018 | Texas Scorecard Video
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by Erin Anderson | Mar. 6, 2018 | Local, Uncategorized
Non-citizens are registering and voting in Texas elections, and current procedures are inadequate to prevent it, state and local officials told lawmakers in a special committee hearing. The Senate Select Committee on Election Security heard testimony last month about...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Mar. 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was a bitter cold morning, shortly before dawn 182 years ago today, when more than a thousand soldiers serving under General Santa Anna were ordered to assault the Alamo. By 6:30am, the battle was over. The defenders were slaughtered, and their bodies burned on...
by Miriam Cepeda | Mar. 5, 2018 | Local
A former water supply corporation, placed in receivership by the government in 2005, has found itself once again entangled in corruption allegations currently being investigated by the Texas Rangers. In 2005, La Joya Water Supply Corp. was shut down by the government...
by Erin Anderson | Mar. 5, 2018 | Local
Parker County citizens submitted a petition Monday calling for a vote to end forced annexation in their county – making them the first in Texas to complete a municipal annexation reform “opt-in” petition under a new state law. Volunteers with the group Stop...
by Tony McDonald | Mar. 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Citizens in McKinney are free to electioneer outside the polls on Election Day after a Collin County district judge issued a temporary restraining order late Monday enjoining the City of McKinney from enforcing an unconstitutional city electioneering ordinance. The...
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