It’s been exactly one week since the Texas primary election and ballots across the state are still being counted. Over the weekend, Harris County Election officials said 10,000 mail-in votes, “were not transferred and counted as a part of the unofficial final results...
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back to archiveTarrant County Democrats Prepare For A Big, Challenging Year
Traditionally, Tarrant County has a reputation for being staunchly Republican, but slowly that marker has been waning. And now Democrats in the third-most populous county are on the cusp of some major breakthroughs, though it won’t be easy. The Signal spoke with Dr....
Democratic candidate for Texas House previously worked with troubled migrant shelter
Luis Villarreal Jr., a Democratic candidate for Texas House District 37, previously worked at SOG International, a staffing and security company that partnered with Sunny Glen, a shelter for migrant children with a troubled history of abuse in Texas. Villarreal worked...
Civil Rights Attorney Lee Merritt on the Texas primary race
Early voting for the Texas primaries has already begun, and many candidates are working overtime to make sure voters go out and vote. A specific race many Texas are tuned into is the Texas attorney general race against indicted incumbent Republican Ken Paxton. The...
Janet Dudding on her run for Texas Comptroller
Longtime certified public accountant and Democratic Texas Comptroller candidate Janet Dudding said the Republican incumbent Glenn Hager isn’t stretching taxpayer dollars enough to provide Texans better services for less money. The Signal spoke with Janet Dudding...
Negative mailer prompts angry reply from Austin-San Antonio Dems
Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, a Democrat running in Texas 35th Congressional District caused an uproar among some Austin and San Antonio Democrats after using a campaign mailer to attack his opponent, former Austin City Councilman Greg Casar. The mailer, first reported...
Dexter McCoy’s vision of equality in Fort Bend County
Fort Bend County Commissioner Precinct 4 Candidate Dexter McCoy couldn’t necessarily define inequality as a child, but watched it as a young boy every day in rural Louisiana. “My grandparents' house at the start of the driveway was the end of the city limits,”...
Molly Cook on playing out John Whitmire
When Senator John Whitmire, the longest-serving member of the Texas Senate announced he would be seeking reelection and running for Houston mayor, Molly Cook had heard enough. Republicans had just wrapped up their most extreme legislative session yet,...
Sid Miller’s Bruising Republican Primary
Sid Miller is facing some harsh accusations in his bid to remain Texas Agriculture Commissioner. And his antagonist is a fellow Republican. Miller, who has had a controversial tenure as agriculture commissioner, is being challenged in the Republican primary by State...