When Vicente Gonzalez was first elected to Congress to represent Texas’s Fifteenth District, in November 2016, he looked to have won the kind of seat where the general election is a formality. The Rio Grande Valley had been a Democratic stronghold for dec... See more
In the first half of 2025, Senator John Cornyn looked like a dead man walking. In more than a dozen polls, he trailed his primary challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton, by an average of seventeen percentage points, and there was speculation that Cornyn ... See more
Since the beginning of his lengthy and oft-scandaled political career, Attorney General Ken Paxton has held one of the most valuable get-out-of-jail-free cards in Texas politics: the seemingly limitless support of Midland oil tycoon Tim Dunn. Whenever Pax... See more
The U.S. Senate primary race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton had, for months, looked like a clean face-off between the Republican establishment and the party’s activist wing. Cornyn is the longest-serving statewide official in Texas, a four-term senato... See more
