The news of Texas covered today includes:
Our Lone Star story of the day:
If we go to the second spot on the 2024 General Election ballot, skipping the presidential race, just shy of 6 million people voted for Ted Cruz, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. In this 2026 General Election, even with great turnout and a national “wave” election, Democrats only garnered 4.4 million votes for the top spot on the ticket, Little Jimmy “the creep” Talarico.
We don’t compare presidential and mid-term cycles for vote turnout prediction but we most certainly can compare the raw number of voters and, no matter how you shake it, Republicans lost state government in Texas because about 500,000 voters stayed home, handing the Leftists the state races. (That’s about the difference between how many voted for Cruz in 2024 versus how many voted for Abbott in 2026. If those 500,000 had shown up, Abbott would have won by over 200,000.)
Read Derek Ryan’s post election analysis, that I read from on the show, here.
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Texas sales tax collection grew by double-digits in October over the same time in 2025. – but again, voters believed the media, like in 1992, that the economy is terrible. We have very low unemployment, factories opening up, and jobs being added at a high rate in Texas but voters believed it a nightmare.
Other political items mentioned (partial):
- Texas Voters Reject Billions in New Property Taxes, Bond Debt
- How Gina Hinojosa will reshape schools, colleges as governor – the story above on rejecting bond debt is also part of this story
- Austin Voters Shoot Down Independent Municipal Audit – of course the did, the last thing leftists want is the public seeing what they waste money on
- Democrats Take Majority on Texas State Board of Education
- Texas elects first woman, openly LGBTQ+ [lesbian] person to lead state Supreme Court
- Letitia Plummer becomes first Black, Muslim woman elected Harris County judge – interesting how the religion hating left is now so excited to elect Muslims to office across the country.
- Democrat Ericka Lomick leads Texas House race, HD93, amid serious eligibility question – notice how the Dems who talked so much about “corruption” are circling the wagons to get this felon into the House
- Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson says he won’t sue out-of-state doctors who mail abortion pills to Texas
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