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Friday, October 30 is the final day of in-person early voting in Texas. Voters can use any early-voting site in their home county, and the ID rules carry more flexibility than many voters realize.
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The state sued Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth on Thursday over $43,429 in Meta ads targeted with ethnic-interest tags; her office deactivated the audience subsets the same night and called its outreach lawful.
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Texans who moved between counties and whose registration has not caught up can vote a limited ballot in person only through Friday, October 30, and only at their new county's main early-voting site.
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Friday, October 30 is the final day of in-person early voting for the November 3 election. Bexar County's regular sites are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., any registered voter can vote at any county site, and after tonight there is no voting again until Election Day.
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Paxton's campaign confirmed the Sunday appearance at El Paso's Orca Event Center is off, citing scheduling and logistics. His stops in Mission and San Antonio the same day remain on the schedule, four days before his Senate race against James Talarico is decided.
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The two Democrats at the top of the Texas ballot rallied together in Dallas on Thursday night, five days before an Election Day that could end their party's three-decade statewide losing streak.
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Five days before Election Day, a Reuters reporter's notebook from the trail finds doubts creeping in among some of the president's most loyal supporters — over the Iran war and the price of gas — while both parties close on the same subject: Donald Trump himself.
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President Donald Trump, who has been engaged in a tariff war with Canada, told a campaign rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Thursday that Canada has been treating the United States extremely nicely recently, Reuters reported.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled planned weekend campaign stops in Salina, Kansas, and Dubuque, Iowa, and will instead phone in to tele-rallies in at least 19 states in the final days before Tuesday's midterm elections, Reuters reported.
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The University of Florida Election Lab count crossed 43 million on Thursday, with Texas about 1.75 million ballots past its entire 2022 early total — and one day of early voting still to go.
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Mohamed Sabry Soliman pleaded guilty Thursday in Denver to nine federal hate-crime counts and three explosives charges for the June 2025 Boulder attack that killed 82-year-old Karen Diamond; federal sentencing is set for January 7.
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A New York Times analysis published Monday gave Texas an aggressiveness score of 73 out of 99 and estimated its 2025 congressional map gives Republicans a six-seat advantage over a politically neutral alternative.
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Texas Democrats gathered Wednesday at Bexar County Democratic Party headquarters to energize volunteers for the final days of early voting, in a visit organized by state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, the party's nominee for comptroller.
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A Texas Southern University poll released Thursday puts James Talarico ahead of Ken Paxton 49 percent to 47 percent among likely voters — inside its 2.19-point margin of error — with Ted Brown at 3 percent and 1 percent undecided.
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The Center Square's Thursday accounting of the Texas governor's race: no governor has ever served four terms, Abbott has raised a state-record $122 million to Gina Hinojosa's $39 million, and a record 19 million Texans are registered — with Abbott leading by only a few points in most polls.
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Former major leaguer Mark Teixeira, the Republican nominee in Texas' 21st Congressional District, used a Newsmax appearance to argue that Democrat James Talarico would weaken border security — a claim Talarico's own past remarks, checked by PolitiFact, complicate.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate and the owner of American King Records, said the label will not hand streaming platforms the power to let other people remix its artists' master recordings, and that anyone who wants to use a master must come to the record company and negotiate a license.
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Friday, Oct. 30, is the last day of early voting for the Nov. 3 midterm election. Bexar County voters can cast a ballot at any early-voting location, with polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. both Thursday and Friday.
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In a video posted by his campaign Wednesday, the Democratic Senate nominee argued that competitive elections force both parties to solve problems — his closing case for ending 30 years of one-party rule in Texas.
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After a poll in another race was revealed as allegedly fake, a UTSA researcher is explaining what voters should check — and the checklist is simple: who paid, who was asked, how many answered, and what the margin of error actually means.
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The Republican nominee for Bexar County Judge published an Oct. 28 letter saying the Editorial Board never invited him to meet in this election, asking four questions and requesting a correction before Election Day if no invitation was sent.
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Wednesday added 41,316 in-person ballots, bringing the ten-day total to 411,337 before early voting closes Friday.
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Huerta died Wednesday at her home in Bakersfield, California, her family announced — a labor leader whose grape boycotts and contract fights won farmworkers clean water, rest breaks and bargaining rights, and whose slogan outlived the fields.
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The Democratic nominee's campaign said Wednesday the ad joins its seven-figure statewide rotation, arguing the camera network is subsidized by state grants covering most of its cost — a claim her release ties to Texas Tribune reporting.
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Polymarket prices checked Tuesday afternoon put James Talarico at 65 percent in the Senate race and Gov. Greg Abbott at 69 percent in the governor's race — market odds, not polls, with nearly $140 million traded across the two races.
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A 254 Labs survey conducted by YouGov Blue among 1,000 Texas registered voters from October 21 to 26 finds Democrats leading all five statewide contests polled, with a margin of error of about 4.6 points.
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A Justice Department prosecutor told a judge Tuesday that a Washington grand jury had rejected an indictment; the prosecutor named no defendant in court, and people familiar with the matter identified the case to news organizations as the Hutchinson investigation.
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Republican Bo French reported about $748,000 raised from September 25 to October 24, and Democrat Jon Rosenthal posted his best period yet at $524,245, in the race for the commission that regulates Texas oil and gas.
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The HBO host's Monday segment focused on the Republican nominee in Texas' 23rd District and a widely circulated video from his gun-review channel, in the final week of early voting.
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Nearly 4.5 million Texans voted in the first seven days of early voting; voters with Democratic primary history led early, but Tuesday's tracking showed the two camps effectively tied with three days left.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, asked who decides which candidates get the cameras, the money, the endorsements and the publicity, called the sidelining of independent voices gatekeeping rather than democracy, and called for peaceful, constitutional change to build a government that works for the people.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, traced the federal child-support program from its start in 1975 and a new incentive structure in 1999 and asked who benefits, who struggles, and whether the government is held accountable for families' real outcomes, not just totals collected.
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Early voting runs Wednesday through Friday, Oct. 30, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at countywide sites, with 370,021 in-person ballots already cast - and the unofficial tracker corrected one of its daily figures this week as the county's own count page restated a day.
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Sam Millsap, who served as Bexar County district attorney from 1982 to 1986, crossed party lines Monday to endorse Republican Ashley Foster in the three-way race against Democrat Luz Elena Chapa and independent Jason Wolff.
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Bexar County voters cast 42,013 in-person ballots on Day 9 of early voting, pushing the county's in-person total to 370,021 — with early voting running through Friday, Oct. 30, and Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, argued that Congress's control of court funding leaves the justice system dependent, pointed to the federal courts scaling back paid operations during a 2025 funding lapse, and called for guaranteed, independent funding for all three branches with full public accountability.
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At least three early voters told KSAT their selections changed on Bexar County touchscreens. Common Cause Texas says touchscreen sensitivity, not programming, is the likely cause; the county elections administrator says the equipment is secure — and that any voter whose printed ballot does not match should tell a poll worker immediately.
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San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones was one of eight panelists on the PBS series Breaking the Deadlock on Tuesday night, in an episode on artificial intelligence that aired on KLRN at 8 p.m.
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Actress and activist Jane Fonda endorsed San Antonio attorney Katy Padilla Stout on Tuesday, joining Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and El Paso County Sheriff Oscar Ugarte in backing her challenge to Brandon Herrera.
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President Donald Trump rallied for Ken Paxton at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center on Tuesday night while Democrat James Talarico packed the Fiesta Center less than three miles away, the two Senate campaigns staging the final week of the Texas race in the same West Texas city on the same night.
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President Donald Trump headlined a rally at the Port of Corpus Christi on Tuesday, his second visit to the city this year, pressing Republican voters to turn out in the final week of early voting and praising Senate nominee Ken Paxton.
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President Donald Trump campaigned in Corpus Christi and Lubbock on Tuesday for Senate candidate Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott, one week before Election Day, while Democrat James Talarico held his own rally in Lubbock the same night.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared at Calvary Baptist Church on Sunday to back Johnny Garcia in the redrawn 35th Congressional District, telling the congregation that Democrats have built the largest voter protection effort in midterm history.
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Registered Bexar County voters can vote early at any county site through Friday, October 30 - including UT San Antonio's Main Campus Bexar Room and the Elections Department downtown - before Election Day on Tuesday, November 3.
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The State Legislative Program for the 90th Texas Legislature - item 6 on Thursday's A Session agenda - puts protecting CPS Energy and SAWS first, ahead of a downtown sports and entertainment district, flood funding and the South Texas Parkway, with bill pre-filing opening November 9.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, raised a conflict-of-interest question about state judges, asking why people so often feel their constitutional rights do not get a fair look in court and why loyalty to an office can seem to matter more than loyalty to the people.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, urged Americans to judge politicians by their actions and voting records rather than their words, and asked how some politicians become millionaires on a public salary, saying public officials should never be above financial scrutiny.
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Jane Fonda and her JanePAC endorsed Democrat Katy Padilla Stout for Texas' 23rd Congressional District in an Instagram video aimed at Republican Brandon Herrera's record on water - the same day Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and El Paso County Sheriff Oscar Ugarte also backed Padilla Stout.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, cited the Declaration of Independence's principle that governments get their just powers from the consent of the governed, and asked when he or his family gave that consent.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, asked where the fight is when police abuse their authority, and why politicians talk about lowering property taxes but never seriously discuss ending them on the homes people own and live in.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, said Democrats and Republicans both operate under the same political system, and asked why so many Americans feel taken advantage of no matter which party holds office.
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The latest federal filings, reported Monday, put Talarico's haul — including a record $64 million third quarter — second only to Raphael Warnock's 2022 campaign, with about $12 million on hand to Paxton's $6 million.
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County-reported daily figures put Bexar County's in-person early vote at 328,008 through Monday's eighth day — half again the county's 2022 pace at the same point — with four voting days left.
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Being flagged on the suspense list does not cancel a registration. Voters who stayed in their county sign a Statement of Residence at the polls; voters who moved counties can use a limited ballot only during early voting, which ends Friday.
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A University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll puts Talarico up 3 points over Paxton, and a University of Houston poll released Monday gives him an 11-point edge among Latino voters — while rural voters overwhelmingly prefer Paxton, with one week to Election Day.
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Bexar's first-week total topped 284,000 ballots and Harris County's passed 624,000, according to turnout reporting Monday — and Bexar polls now run their longest hours, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Friday, before early voting closes.
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A Travis County judge ruled Monday that Gov. Greg Abbott must let state Rep. Gina Hinojosa inspect more than a thousand pages of unredacted communications with Elon Musk — and Abbott's side appealed the same day.
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With eight days left, San Antonio became a campaign crossroads this weekend — a House leader in East Side churches, 1,800 people at Sunset Station, a barbecue rally its hosts disowned, and two closing stops still to come.
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A large crowd turned out Monday at McBride's Steakhouse for Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, who pitched affordability and turnout with early voting running through Friday.
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Millsap, who held the office from 1982 to 1986, crossed party lines Monday to back Foster over Democrat Luz Elena Chapa, saying the office's future matters more than party loyalty.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, said politicians chase votes and then money and forget the people, and urged supporters to stand with someone who actually works for them.
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Senate rivals, a House leader and a lieutenant governor hopeful all worked San Antonio crowds over the weekend, eight days before Election Day.
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John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, pointed to Cold War spending on underground facilities built to protect government leaders and asked why ordinary Americans never received the same level of protection.
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Early voting for the Nov. 3 election runs its longest hours this week — 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday at early voting sites across Bexar County — before it closes Friday, Oct. 30.
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East Central, Northside, San Antonio, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City and South San Antonio ISDs all hold voter-approval tax rate elections on Nov. 3, each with a different rate, price tag and plan for the money.
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Three candidates are on the Nov. 3 ballot for governor of Texas, and two issues have moved to the center of the race — the data centers seeking power across the state, and what the rules should be for THC and hemp products.
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Bexar County early voting runs on a shorter Sunday schedule — noon to 6 p.m. at regular sites — before the final week opens Monday at 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Friday, Oct. 30.
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On War Room, Steve Bannon told Republicans the Texas Senate race will come down to turnout, and consultant Luke Macias said Ken Paxton could lose to James Talarico if the current early-vote pace holds — a warning built on Tarrant County numbers and a tied Fox News poll.
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AARP Texas put the same three questions to the candidates for Bexar County judge — disaster preparedness, family caregiving and aging in place — and published their video answers Saturday as early voting continues toward the November 3 election.
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More than 23 million Americans had voted as of Oct. 23, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab — and Texas, at more than 2.8 million early votes, already stands at 35 percent of its total 2022 midterm turnout.
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A new Fox News poll finds the Texas U.S. Senate race dead even at 49% apiece among likely voters, erasing the two-point lead James Talarico held in September, while Gov. Greg Abbott leads Gina Hinojosa 52% to 47%.
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Saturday is the longest early-voting day of the first week in Bexar County — polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at any early voting site, with Sunday hours noon to 6 p.m. and the final week running 7 to 7 through October 30.
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The Secretary of State says the texas.gov address-validation glitch is resolved and the updated addresses reached county officials Friday — Bexar County alone received 3,000 of the 15,000 delayed records.
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Texas Public Opinion Research's third and final tracking poll puts Democrat James Talarico ahead of Republican Ken Paxton 51 to 47 in the Senate race and Governor Greg Abbott ahead of Gina Hinojosa 51 to 48 — both margins at the edge of the survey's error range.
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A Hamilton County jury on Friday rejected Rodney Hinton Jr.'s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and convicted him of murder in the death of Deputy Larry Henderson, with sentencing set for Nov. 16.
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President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at lowering mortgage and homeownership costs — proactive mortgage-insurance cancellation, cheaper refinancing, and a manufactured-housing task force — with most provisions still requiring agency implementation.
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Two former senior FBI officials who served on the bureau's Foreign Influence Task Force surrendered Friday on charges that they lied to Congress in 2023 about the FBI's Hunter Biden investigations — charges their side calls false and timed to the election.
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Less than two weeks before the November 3 midterms, President Trump told Iowa voters to pretend he is on the ballot and warned the Iran war could resume after the election — while Karl Rove and David Axelrod laid out their predictions, with the Texas Senate race in the middle of the map.
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The Justice Department has dropped its appeals defending a rule that would have let the Education Department disqualify some government and nonprofit employers from Public Service Loan Forgiveness — ending a fight plaintiffs said put millions of borrowers at risk.
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The White House said Friday that First Lady Melania Trump secured a localized ceasefire in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, to begin October 29, to allow humanitarian aid in and civilians out.
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More than 176,000 people voted in person in the first four days of early voting — and the surge has tested the county's machines, ballot data and printing queue, according to reporting on the elections office's first week.
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The city's only local ballot measure asks voters to reauthorize the one-eighth-of-1-percent sales tax that funds Pre-K 4 SA, for a maximum 20-year period starting when the current authorization expires in 2029.
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Friday is the last day to apply for a ballot by mail in Bexar County. Early voting rolls on through Oct. 30 — here are the hours, the rules, and what is on your ballot.
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Streets, safety and tax rates top the agenda as council workshops get underway at City Hall.
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