HuTube: Rick Perry Calls For Bigger, Better Tea Parties
Watch Governor Rick Perry's Wednesday speech at the Midland County Republican Women's luncheon, where he claims President Barack Obama is "beyond not caring about Texas." Full Story
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2010: Hopson's BFF
Republican Brian Walker, who lost a close race to Democrat Chuck Hopson in 2008, endorsed Hopson's reelection bid next year — now that Hopson has switched to the GOP. Full Story
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Stump Interrupted: Rick Perry
Governor Rick Perry is the subject of the latest video in our Stump Interrupted series, which marries trivia bubbles with purposely newsless stump speeches. In this installment, Perry's late-October address to the Lake Travis Republican Women's Club gets, well, interrupted. Full Story
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2010: McCall's for Ratliff
Rep. Brian McCall, R-Plano, is endorsing State Board of Education wannabe Thomas Ratliff, an important move because Collin County is a key part of that race's geography. Full Story
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Texas Weekly: Are Republican candidates ignoring Hispanics?
What concerns me as a Republican is that the race for governor may be focusing too much on the personalities of the candidates and the highly charged nature of the race rather than the long-term vision and consequences. I worry that either candidate could win the race but lose the future — too much focus on the politics of the next year, rather than the policies of the next decade. Full Story
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Stump Interrupted: Kay Bailey Hutchison
Remember VH1's "Pop-up Video"? We loved it, too. It inspired us to launch a new feature we call Stump Interrupted, a twist on the traditional stump speech. U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is the first to get the S.I. treatment. We take her seven-minute monologue from a Waco campaign event and put it into context. Full Story
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2010: White sits tight
Bill White is still running for the U.S. Senate, according to aides and to White himself, in response to a flurry of weekend rumors that he's switching to the race for governor. Full Story
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2010: El Paso County Attorney announces Senate candidacy
Today in El Paso, County Attorney Jose Rodriguez announced he is running for the state Senate seat that Democrat Eliot Shapleigh is giving up. Full Story
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2010: Rodriguez Senate announcement Sunday
El Paso County Attorney Jose Rodriguez is expected to announce tomorrow at an El Paso press conference that he will run for the Texas Senate seat that state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh is vacating. Full Story
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Hopson's Choice
Rep. Chuck Hopson, D-Jacksonville, is switching parties, saying that ""President Obama and the Democrats in Congress just don't reflect the values of this district." That's a severe blow to Democrats hoping to win a majority in the Texas House. Full Story
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On the Records: Mackowiak vs. NotMackowiak Word Clouds
#tcot vs. takemeseriously. Full Story
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Should KBH resign? Two views
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is playing a high stakes game of will-she-won't-she. So should she or shouldn't she? Full Story
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Mixed impressions inside the poll numbers
Texans say immigration tops their list of state concerns. Nearly half of them say illegal immigrants should be deported, as against 41 percent who think the immigrants should be allowed to keep their jobs, assimilate, and eventually be allowed to apply for legal status. Full Story
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The Weekly TribCast: Episode 002
Evan Smith, Ross Ramsey, Elise Hu, and Ben Philpott have a jam session on the UT/Texas Tribune poll, the 2010 Democratic statewide slate, and their favorite haircare products. Full Story
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Ads Infinitum: Medina, en español
Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina launched the first in what she says will be a series of Spanish-language commercials that will air on South Texas cable — on CNN, Fox News, and Univision. Full Story
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KHOU-TV: A Few Minutes with Farouk Shami
A few minutes from KHOU-TV's October interview with Farouk Shami, the Houston hair care executive who says he's going to run for Texas governor as a Democrat. He pledges to spend $10 million from his personal fortune to get the job. Full Story
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2010: Former Tigua leader mulling Senate run
Albert Alvidrez, a former governor of the Tigua tribe in El Paso, is mulling a run for the Texas Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Sen. Eliot Shapleigh. But having Alvidrez in the Senate might not earn the tribe another vote for gambling rights. Full Story
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2010: Another El Paso Republican to challenge Moody
El Paso Republican Rene Diaz invited us at The Texas Tribune this morning to join him on his "journey" as he runs for the Texas House. Diaz is going to run for the HD78 seat that Democrat Joe Moody now represents. Full Story