State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, debates state Rep. Mark Shelton, R-Fort Worth, in the matchup for Senate District 10.
State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, debates state Rep. Mark Shelton, R-Fort Worth, in the matchup for Senate District 10. Illustration by Khampha Bouaphanh

In their first debate in a nail-biter of a state Senate race, incumbent Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, and state Rep. Mark Shelton, R-Fort Worth, traded barbs on legislative ethics in a spirited debate on everything from school financing to federal health reform. We tweeted the ins and outs of the forum, which you can follow in the Storify below.

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Emily Ramshaw was the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure, the Tribune — billed “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories” — won a Peabody...