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Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls

Jul 1, 2024 | Campaign News

By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor JUNE. 20, 2024 Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 points in Texas, according to the latest UT/Texas Politics Project poll. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it...

By the Numbers: Speaker Phelan’s Narrow Runoff Win and ‘Crossover’ Voting

Jun 3, 2024 | Campaign News

By the Numbers: Speaker Phelan’s Narrow Runoff Win and ‘Crossover’ Voting By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAY. 29, 2024 Speaker Dade Phelan was bound to make history last night. He was going to become either the first incumbent Speaker ousted in a...

Winning In The Runoffs: How First-Place Primary Finishers Fare

May 21, 2024 | Campaign News

Winning in the Runoffs: How First-Place Primary Finishers Fare By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAY. 21, 2024 Last week, we looked at the historically poor success rate of incumbent legislators who get forced into runoffs. Since 1996, just about...

Pre-Runoff Review

May 20, 2024 | Campaign News

Pre-Runoff Review By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAY. 15, 2024 Early voting for the primary runoff election begins Monday. Unlike the primary election, the runoff is always a head-to-head matchup. For the candidates, winning hinges more on...

Endangered Incumbents

Apr 10, 2024 | Campaign News

By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAR. 11 2024 Endangered Incumbents Incumbents were more than endangered, it turns out. A record nine Republican incumbents fell on Tuesday. Another eight Republicans and one Democrat were forced into runoffs. Coming...

Primary Turnout

Apr 2, 2024 | Campaign News

Storylines From Primary Night By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAR. 15, 2024 Turnout Based on preliminary figures, 3.29M Texans voted in the Republican and Democratic primaries combined. This is the fourth most in state history behind 2016 (4.27M),...

Storylines We’re Following for Primary Night

Mar 5, 2024 | Campaign News

By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor MAR. 4, 2024 Endangered incumbents? Only one legislative incumbent has fallen in a primary election in the last two primary elections. At least four legislative incumbents were ousted in the each of the previous...

Texas House Race 30-Day-Out Report Analysis

Feb 14, 2024 | Campaign News

Texas House Race 30-Day-Out Report Analysis Challengers Outpacing Incumbents By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor More than $8 million flowed into races pitting an incumbent Republican House member against one or more primary challengers during the...

Governor Greg Abbott Sets New Fundraising Records For A Non-Election Year

Jan 24, 2024 | Campaign News

Governor Greg Abbott continues to set state fundraising records. He reported raising $19.7M in his January semiannual reports, which covered the second half of 2023. This is the most ever raised by an officeholder for a semi-annual period in a non-election year,...

Record Number of House Republicans Facing Multiple Primary Challengers

Jan 8, 2024 | Campaign News

By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor JAN. 5, 2023 If it seems to you like more Republican House incumbents are facing multiple primary challengers (MPCs), then your perceptive powers are accurate. This cycle, 16 House Republicans are facing MPCs. This...

Embracing AI: The Game-Changer for Political Professionals

Dec 19, 2023 | Campaign News

By Laura Carr TXElects Owner & Head of Business Development DEC. 18, 2023 TXElects has launched a prototype of the first AI-driven software for Texas political professionals to 10 heavy-hitting organizations. This software is specifically designed to aggregate,...

Houston Mayoral Runoff Election Turnout Analysis

Dec 18, 2023 | Campaign News

DEC 8, 2023 By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor Houston’s mayoral runoff, like all elections, will come down to turnout, but turnout variations may well point to a built-in advantage for one of the candidates. Senator John Whitmire received 43.0% of...

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#43 - Wes Benedict: Bridging Policy and Community with Texans for Reasonable Solutions
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Welcome to Episode #43 of Bills & Business. In this episode, Laura Carr, Co-Founder of USLege, sits down with Wes Benedict, Grassroots Manager at Texans for Reasonable Solutions.

Wes brings years of advocacy experience and a steady, practical approach to community engagement. The conversation explores how Texas communities can navigate political tension, build cross-partisan coalitions, and create space for meaningful dialogue in an increasingly polarized environment.

They dive into the organization’s focus on key statewide issues including housing, infrastructure, water, and the evolving relationship between local and state governments. Wes breaks down why these policies matter for both everyday Texans and the business community, and how reasonable, bipartisan solutions can move conversations forward.

The episode closes with insights on how individuals can get involved, what success looks like in grassroots policy work, and what Texans should be watching as the special session unfolds.

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Texas Political Spotlight
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Michael and Susan Dell’s unprecedented $6.25 billion pledge to expand federal “Trump Accounts” aims to boost long-term savings for 25 million American children. In Lubbock, Texas Tech’s new classroom restrictions on race, gender identity, and sexuality have ignited an immediate clash over academic freedom and curriculum control. And in Northeast Texas, Rep. Gary VanDeaver’s decision not to seek reelection opens a pivotal Republican primary.

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USLege’s ‘Best in Government Affairs Awards’ Celebrates Heroes of the Texas Capitol with State’s First Peer-Nominated Government Affairs Honor
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Texas Political Spotlight
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Michael and Susan Dell’s unprecedented $6.25 billion pledge to expand federal “Trump Accounts” aims to boost long-term savings for 25 million American children. In Lubbock, Texas Tech’s new classroom restrictions on race, gender identity, and sexuality have ignited an immediate clash over academic freedom and curriculum control. And in Northeast Texas, Rep. Gary VanDeaver’s decision not to seek reelection opens a pivotal Republican primary.

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Texas Political Spotlight
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Texas voters approved one of the largest property tax relief packages in state history on Tuesday, raising the homestead exemption to $140,000 and granting new tax breaks for seniors, people with disabilities, and small businesses. In Austin, residents rejected Proposition Q, a plan to fund public safety, homelessness programs, and city facility initiatives through a property tax hike, forcing city leaders to rework the budget and brace for service cuts. Meanwhile, Bexar County voters narrowly passed Propositions A and B, greenlighting up to $311 million in tourism-funded support for a new downtown Spurs arena and upgrades to the Freeman Coliseum grounds.

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Texas Political Spotlight
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern American politics, has died at 84, remembered by former President George W. Bush as a “patriot” whose intellect and conviction shaped decades of U.S. policy. In Texas, the Education Agency announced a sweeping takeover of Fort Worth ISD, the state’s second-largest intervention, citing years of academic underperformance and plans to install new local managers. And in Washington, a United Airlines flight was evacuated after a bomb threat, prompting an FBI investigation that later found no explosives, allowing operations to resume safely.

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