Top 12 Orgs Lobbying with Tax Dollars Friend, Meet the groups spending your money to influence lawmakers in Texas. This election cycle, $17.8 million of the money spent on Texas lobbying is coming from these 12 taxpayer-funded entities.  …

$13,209,694 Texans for Lawsuit Reform, a politically moderate, pro-business PAC, raised more than $5 million in the second quarter of this year, bringing their fundraising total for the 2020 election cycle to…

The $640 million you don't hear about Friend, Out of all the new data available from money in Texas politics this month, three headlines stand out above the rest. A two-minute read will catch you up — and we kick things off with the $640…

69% Donations to Democratic office holders and candidates for the Texas legislature have increased by 69 percent compared to 2018. Likely motivated by a chance to take control of the Texas House and by politi…

NEW: Democrats up 69% in TXlege donations Friend, Compared to last election cycle, Democrat fundraising to the Texas Legislature has skyrocketed while Republican donations are dropping. Here are five reasons why. Plus: The latest data in…

$17,670,086 Texas lobbyists reported $17,670,086 spent in the second quarter of 2020 to influence lawmakers in Austin. This brings the total spent on Texas lobbying during the 2020 election cycle up to $640,6…

16 (featuring new Texas runoff data) Election Day for the party primary runoffs in Texas is this upcoming Tuesday, July 14. Although primary elections were held back on March 3rd, 16 of those elections for th…

You should know about this Texas runoff Friend, Texas Senate District 19 is massive — stretching from San Antonio to far West Texas. So after a low-turnout special election in 2018 put a Republican Senator in office, Democrats in the hist…

Incumbent Democrat targeted by left Friend, Eddie Lucio Jr, the Texas State Senator for the Brownsville/Harlingen area, was pushed into a primary runoff for Senate District 27. This challenge from the left came despite his much deeper poc…

0.1% In 2018, the Republican incumbent won re-election to Texas House District 138 by a razor-thin 0.1 percent margin, making this race a target for Democrats hoping to flip the Texas House this November. We’…

Battleground races to watch Friend, For the first time in nearly two decades, Democrats believe they have a real chance to take control of the Texas House. The stakes are high ⁠— the party in control will augment their power in the Texas …

$115,000 The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by former Attorney General Eric Holder, recently announced $115,000 in direct donations to the campaigns of candidates for the Texas House. If Dem…

4 days left The Texas primary runoff elections feature close races where no candidate was able to garner 50 percent of the vote in the March primary. The runoffs, postponed due to COVID-19 in May, are now sch…

Search campaign data like a pro Friend, Transparency USA keeps you updated on the money in state politics. You can search candidates, donors and PACs by name to see who's giving and who's getting in the 2020 election season. To get the mo…