As political campaigns in Texas shift into high gear after a court ruling finally set the date of the Texas primaries More…, candidates will continue to raise millions of dollars in campaign cash to add to the millions that have already been raised. However, much of the campaign cash is
When Texas voters will get to make their choice in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate is still undecided, but the candidates and outside groups have raised and spent millions of dollars during the wait. Ted Cruz, the former solicitor general of Texas, trails by 18 points in the More…
While there wasn’t much variation in their views on the issues, there was sharp contrast in their presentations and tone when Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate took to the debate stage Thursday night. The debate boiled down to each presenting their case for why they are the most conservative. More…
If you’ve been curious about U.S. Senate candidate and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert’s take on the Occupy Wall Street movement, well, wonder no more. Friday afternoon, Leppert unveiled his campaign’s effort to steer the national discourse, with endoccupy.com More….
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is reeling after a rough debate in Orlando, Fla., and is still taking heat More… for defending the law he signed 10 years ago, granting in-state tuition at Texas’ public universities to children of undocumented immigrants.
Today, Texas’ Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst piled onto the criticism of
A week after Roll Call named him the richest man in Congress, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, may be looking to make a run for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat in the upper chamber, according to reports from the Austin American-Statesman and the Texas Tribune More….
“McCaul’s team has long
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst finally announced his entry into the race to replace U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison last night, in a YouTube video promising a “straightforward, unapologetically conservative” campaign, as the Austin American-Statesman reported More….
The video, in which Dewhurst narrates footage of out-of-work Americans paying bills and cowboys
Hours before the Texas Legislature adjourned today, the conservative group Empower Texans released its grades for lawmakers in its Fiscal Responsibility Index, delivering an “F” to nine Republicans, and every Democrat in both chambers.
The group, headed by the influential lobbyist Michael Quinn Sullivan, has been tweeting statistical breakdowns all More…
