You’d be hard-pressed to find a Democrat running for office in East Texas. Aware they didn’t stand a chance with a “D” next to their names after Barack Obama won the 2008 election, the blue dogs ran to the Republican Party. 

But state Rep. Chuck Hopson of Jacksonville, who switched to the GOP after 10 years in office as a Democrat, finds himself still answering for his Democratic past. And now that Nacogdoches County has been added to the redrawn House District 11, he faces new constituents and an opponent, Travis Clardy, a lawyer from Nacogdoches, who has ...

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