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Gina Hinojosa
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Greg Abbott received a $12 million contribution from out-of-state billionaire Jeff Yaz — the largest campaign contribution in all of Texas history — from someone with a financial interest in school vouchers.
Over 100 schools are shutting down in Texas and over 150 school districts have moved to 4-day weeks because they cannot afford to operate 5 days a week.
Property taxes in Texas have increased approximately 75% under Governor Greg Abbott's tenure.
In 2026, Democrats outperformed Republicans in the Texas primary, a rare occurrence, with Gina Hinojosa getting twice as many votes as Beto O'Rourke received in 2018.
The governor of Texas controls redistricting power that affects 10% of U.S. congressional seats, making the 2026 race one of the most consequential in the country.
In 2018, Beto O'Rourke won 64% of the Latino vote in Texas; Hinojosa says reaching that same threshold would give her a winning coalition given Latino population growth.
Democrats flipped a Texas state Senate seat in Tarrant County — once the most Republican county in the US — swinging it 31 points.
The Trump administration is asking Congress for an $88 billion Iran war funding supplemental — and 69% of Americans already think the war wasn't worth the cost. With gas prices still elevated and Medicaid cuts fresh in voters' minds, Republicans are being asked to cast one of the most unpopular votes imaginable heading into the midterms.
Men aged 30 to 44 — millennials — show the highest favorability toward socialism of any demographic group, outpacing even younger voters by 9 points. But Jon Favreau argues this isn't ideological: it's a verdict on capitalism. When people say 'socialism,' they picture Medicare for All — not abolishing prisons.
Every Republican senator — except maybe Mike Lee and Rick Scott — knows the SAVE Act can't pass 50 votes, let alone 60. But not one of them told Trump that in the room. Dan Pfeiffer calls it a pure sign of weakness and failure from John Thune: you had him there, and you still said nothing.
From 1946 to 2024, over 98% of House incumbents have won their party primaries. Two losing on the same night — including the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — is genuinely extraordinary. This isn't a 'Dems will be Dems' moment to wave away.
Dan Pfeiffer identifies three reasons the Democratic base has turned on the party establishment: anger that leadership hasn't stood up to Trump, the perception that the party is too captured by corporate interests, and the issue of Israel and Gaza. These aren't fringe concerns — they're driving primary upsets coast to coast, and the institutional party has no credible answer.
On Usha Vance's YouTube series, JD Vance greeted his own wife with two fatherly pats on the knee, pulled his hand back, and then both of them sat staring at each other. Dan Pfeiffer's verdict: it looks like the first meeting between a man who's never been on a date and a mail-order bride. And they could have edited it.
Texas will redraw congressional maps next year with no Voting Rights Act guardrails. If Republicans control the governorship, Democrats could lose 5 seats immediately, plus 4 to 5 more after the census adds congressional seats. The Texas governor effectively controls 10% of Congress. That's why Gina Hinojosa says this is the most important governor's race in the country.
In the last Trump midterm — 2018 — Democrats swept the Texas legislative landscape, flipping 12 House seats and all of Harris County, but weren't fully organized. This time Democrats have candidates in every congressional, state house, and state senate seat, and already outperformed Republicans in the primary. Hinojosa's primary vote total was double Beto's 2018 primary haul.
Minutes before a bipartisan housing affordability bill signing, Trump canceled it and demanded Congress pass the SAVE Act first. The SAVE Act has failed the Senate five times, and would disenfranchise the working-class voters who are the core of Trump's base — and none of his advisors or Senate allies would say so to his face.
Texas has 100+ schools closing, 150+ districts on 4-day weeks, the most uninsured children of any state, property taxes up 75%, and Corpus Christi potentially running out of water. Gina Hinojosa frames all of it as a single cause: the Greg Abbott corruption tax, where policy is driven by donor money and everyone else pays more and gets less.
In 2018, Beto O'Rourke won 64% of the Latino vote and came within 2.5 points of winning Texas statewide. The Latino share of the Texas electorate is now larger. Hinojosa says if she hits that same 64% threshold, she wins — and a recent state Senate race in Tarrant County saw 79% Latino support for the Democratic candidate.
Chevalier may be the most left-wing candidate to ever win a Democratic primary in modern times. She attended an anti-Israel rally on October 8th, 2023 — condemned by Mamdani, AOC, and Lander — and a week before winning she told a NY editorial board she opposes all deportations, all prisons, and couldn't name any jail time appropriate for a convicted murderer. Democrats need to say plainly: those views are wrong.
After canceling the housing bill signing, Trump attended a Senate lunch where he berated Republicans over Iran and got into a shouting match with Bill Cassidy, calling him a lunatic. Cassidy refused to sit down, called Trump 'brother,' and Trump told him he wasn't his brother. Senator John Kennedy later said the meeting was a success because no one got stabbed.
The New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite eradicated from the US 60 years ago, is back in Texas cattle and spreading. Reporting indicates DOGE cuts slowed the federal response. Abbott has not criticized the administration despite Texas having a Secretary of Agriculture in the Trump cabinet. Hinojosa calls it a failure of Abbott's leadership and juice with Washington.
JD Vance told Ross Douthat that criticism of the administration's unchristian tone is really just elites policing 'working-class communication.' Jon Favreau eviscerates the argument: the Manhattan billionaire president calling Americans 'human scum' isn't working-class speech, and telling someone not to be a dick to neighbors is not an elite preference.
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