In 2018, Texas flipped two congressional seats, two state senate seats and 12 state house seats from red to blue. Progressives have a chance to flip three more seats in November and maintain a seat that flipped in 2018.
Wendy Davis (D-TX-21) is challenging first-term Republican Rep. Chip Roy, who won by only a two-percent margin in 2018, leaving this central Texas district ripe for flipping. While Roy is a hawk who has voted incorrectly on almost every national security issue, Davis opposes the new nuclear weapons programs proposed by the Trump administration and supports extending the New START nuclear arms treaty.
Gina Ortiz Jones (D-TX-23) lost a heart-breaker in 2018 by only 926 votes. She is back for a second attempt, intimidating incumbent Rep. Will Hurd into retirement at the end of his term. Jones is an Iraq War veteran and former intelligence analyst for U.S. Africa Command in Germany, and later joined the Defense Intelligence Agency, where she specialized in Latin America. She is a strong advocate of progressive national security positions and is favored to win this border district this time.
Sri Kulkarni (D-TX-22) is a national security expert and former foreign service officer who served in five countries before deciding to run for office in 2018. He came within five points of beating incumbent Rep. Pete Olson, who has since announced his retirement. This suburban Houston race has now been labeled a toss-up, and we think he has a good chance of flipping this seat.
Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX-32) ousted an incumbent in this Dallas-area district in 2018 and now is running for re-election. Allred is a former civil rights attorney and professional football player. He serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and has voted consistently for pro-peace positions, while opposing a Trump administration proposal to build a new, smaller and "more usable" nuclear weapon for submarines and supporting a bill to bar U.S. military force against Iran without approval of Congress. We need to keep him in the House.
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