Year: 2025
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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #179
Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board governance, the politics surrounding it, and education policy. In today’s edition, you’ll find: Reply to this email to share reactions or story ideas! On the issues: The debate over teacher strikes In this section, we curate reporting, analysis,…
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Incumbent John Cornyn (R), Wesley Hunt (R), Ken Paxton (R), and 10 other candidates are running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Texas on March 3, 2026
Incumbent John Cornyn (R), Wesley Hunt (R), Ken Paxton (R), and 10 other candidates are running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Texas on March 3, 2026. The filing deadline is December 8, 2025. As of October 2025, Cornyn, Hunt, and Paxton led in polling, fundraising, endorsements, and media attention. The Texas Tribune's…
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Jessica Karlsruher (R), Scott MacLeod (R), and six other candidates are running in the Republican primary for Texas' 10th Congressional District on March 3, 2026
Jessica Karlsruher (R), Scott MacLeod (R), and six other candidates are running in the Republican primary for Texas' 10th Congressional District on March 3, 2026. The filing deadline is December 8, 2025. As of October 2025, Karlsruher and MacLeod led in local media attention. Incumbent Michael McCaul (R), first elected in 2004, is not running…
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Joshua Cortez (R), Carlos De La Cruz (R), John Lujan (R), and two other candidates are running in the Republican primary for Texas' 35th Congressional District on March 3, 2026
Joshua Cortez (R), Carlos De La Cruz (R), John Lujan (R), and two other candidates are running in the Republican primary for Texas' 35th Congressional District on March 3, 2026. The filing deadline is December 8, 2025. As of October 2025, Cortez, De La Cruz, and Lujan led in media attention. The Texas Tribune’s Kayla…
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California Proposition 50 becomes the fourth most expensive ballot measure in state history, with $166.2 million between supporters and opponents
California Proposition 50 is now the fourth most expensive ballot measure in the state’s history based on campaign contributions. Voters will decide the measure, which would authorize a new congressional districts map, at a special election on Nov. 4, 2025. As of Oct. 27, committees supporting and opposing the measure had raised a combined $166.2…
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Signature validity for 2025 Maine initiatives was 93.0%, surpassing the 2017-2025 state average of 88.4%
Two citizen-initiated ballot measures will appear on the Nov. 4, 2025, ballot in Maine—Question 1 and Question 2. Proponents of a ballot initiative collect petition signatures from a certain minimum number of registered voters in a state. For 2025, the average signature validity rate was 93.0%. Sponsors of Question 1 submitted 4,410 petition forms containing…