A stat I can't stop thinking about: In 2024, nearly one in four Texas votes came from just four North Texas counties — Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton. If you're looking to read tea leaves tonight, I'd start there. More deets from Gabby Birenbaum's suburban reporting: texastribune.org/2026/09/24/texas-paxton-talarico-hesitant-republican-voters

Eleanor Klibanoff is the law and politics reporter, based in Austin, where she covers the the Texas Legislature, the Office of the Attorney General, state and federal courts and politics writ large. She...