The mid-year campaign finance reports, filed last week, reveal which races have the attention of the political players. They're a down-in-the-weeds look at where the fights will be this fall.

House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, defending turf for the first time since he was elected, looks strong financially. He reported holding cash balances of around $3 million in his two accounts and another $205,000 in the Texas House Leadership Fund, a political action committee he and some of his chairs set up to hold and grow the GOP majority in the House. Straus has said he won ...

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