The last campaign finance reports to be filed by Texas state-level candidates before Election Tuesday were due October 26 to the Texas Ethics Commission. With that latest update, all available pre-election campaign finance data for the 2020 election cycle is now included in Transparency USA’s Texas database. Here are a few highlights from the 2020 …

The most closely watched battle in Texas state-level politics is the effort by Democrats to flip the Texas House to blue this November. If Democrats can hold the 12 seats they gained in 2018 and take nine more, they will control the Texas House for the first time in more than two decades. The upcoming …

Texas House District 92 includes Bedford, Euless, Hurst, and portions of other communities in Tarrant County. The Candidates In House District 92, Republican Jeff Cason and Democrat Jeff Whitfield are facing off in hopes of replacing retiring Republican State Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R-Bedford). Stickland held the Dallas-Fort Worth area seat for Republicans for three terms …

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Two weeks ago, Transparency USA reported about Forward Majority, a national political action committee (PAC) targeting the Texas House and several other state legislatures with the intent of flipping control to the Democrats ahead of the 2021 redistricting process. With Democrats only nine seats away from flipping the Texas House, it’s no surprise that Forward …