U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz defeated Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke in the race for U.S. Senate. View full 2018 Texas election results or subscribe to The Brief for the latest election news.
Democrat Lina Hidalgo — a 27-year-old Colombian immigrant with a rich life story — will preside over her first Harris County Commissioners Court meeting as county judge on Tuesday. The political newcomer rode into office on a Democratic wave that swept the state's most populous county. Full Story
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Find out where Texas midterm candidates stand on student debt, DACA, school gun violence and more. Full Story
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The Houston Democrat narrowly avoided a runoff Tuesday night as unofficial results showed she prevailed in the special election to succeed ex-state Sen. Sylvia Garcia. Full Story
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Post-election campaign finance reports came out Thursday in the U.S. Senate race. Full Story
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Voter turnout in the 2018 Texas midterm elections increased by 18 percentage points compared with the previous midterms, according to data from the United States Elections Project. Full Story
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State Reps. Carol Alvarado and Ana Hernandez, both Democrats, are the most well-known candidates running to replace former state Sen. Sylvia Garcia in a district that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 by 46 percentage points. Full Story
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The super PAC, Texas Forever, was set up in a way so that it did not have to disclose its donor before Election Day. Full Story
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Joanna Cattanach’s concession comes almost one month after the 2018 midterms. The Democrat had trailed state Rep. Morgan Meyer, R-Dallas, by roughly 200 votes and requested a recount nearly a week after the election. Full Story
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Almost two weeks have passed since the election, but Jones had been holding out hope and waiting to see all outstanding ballots counted. Full Story
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Texas Democrats and Republicans are already gearing up for an action-packed election cycle. Full Story
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Winning an election by just a little bit can make a candidate a target in the next election. And this year's ballots in Texas were full of close finishes. Full Story
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The deadline was 5 p.m. Friday. Full Story
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The Republicans at the top of the statewide ballot in Texas won their elections this year, but it was the state's least-populated and most-ignored counties that put them over the top. Full Story
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Counties still say they’re tallying their final votes, but here’s a roundup of races where the outcomes remain in limbo. Full Story
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Beto O'Rourke surged to a 15-point edge over Ted Cruz in Hays County during last week's election, even though the Central Texas county hadn't voted for a Democrat at the top of the ticket since 1992. Full Story
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Two years ago, Beto O'Rourke was a little-known congressman from El Paso and Ted Cruz's re-election was considered a foregone conclusion. Then everything changed. Full Story
In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday night, Patrick sounded off about Straus, the midterm elections and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke: "It scares me what he stands for." Full Story
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Fourteen of 35 LGBTQ candidates won their races Tuesday night, and activists say the 2018 election will carve a path for a future "rainbow wave" in Texas. Full Story
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In Williamson, Hays, Collin and Fort Bend counties, Republicans saw their dominance falter on Tuesday. Full Story
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Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson could be the only Texas committee chair in the next Congress. Full Story
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Republicans hoped to keep a majority Texas House seats from Dallas County when they redrew district boundaries in 2011. Seven years later, they've only held onto two of 14. Full Story
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In a wide-ranging conversation with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith, Straus launched jabs at two fellow Republicans: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and President Donald Trump. He declined to weigh in on who should succeed him as the leader of the lower chamber. Full Story
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