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ChrisTackettNow
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Just to close out the vote totals from Early Voting, what will follow is 2014, 2016 and 2018 EV totals (and % of registered voters casting a ballot) from the 15 biggest Texas counties.
Early Voting in Harris County
2014 - 375,227 (18.19%)
2016 - 977,279 (43.73%)
2018 - 855,710 (36.59%)
#Midterms2018
Early Voting in Dallas County
2014 - 215,147 (17.88%)
2016 - 549,643 (42.7%)
2018 - 529,521 (39.66%)
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Early Voting in Tarrant County
2014 - 212,492 (21.26%)
2016 - 515,230 (47.81%)
2018 - 465,817 (41.49%)
#Midterms2018
Early Voting in Bexar County
2014 - 190,274 (19.88%)
2016 - 471,908 (45.14%)
2018 - 414,192 (37.71%)
#Midterms2018
Early Voting in Travis County
2014 - 142,759 (21.79%)
2016 - 377,685 (52.09%)
2018 - 368,048 (47.43%)
#Midterms2018
Early Voting in Collin County
2014 - 105,296 (21.69%)
2016 - 301,939 (56.24%)
2018 - 286,393 (49.39%)
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Early Voting in Denton County
2014 - 83,346 (20.48%)
2016 - 239,954 (51.62%)
2018 - 228,650 (45.96%)
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Early Voting in Fort Bend County
2014 - 80,511 (22.17%)
2016 - 213,567 (52.86%)
2018 - 199,267 (46.14%)
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Early Voting in Williamson County
2014 - 59,042 (21.74%)
2016 - 162,558 (54.19%)
2018 - 162,574 (48.97%)
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Early Voting in Montgomery County
2014 - 57,735 (20.51%)
2016 - 156,818 (50.28%)
2018 - 138,125 (41.42%)
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Early Voting in El Paso County
2014 - 38,399 (9.51%)
2016 - 150,446 (35.12%)
2018 - 139,105 (30.51%)
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Early Voting in Hidalgo County
2014 - 59,309 (18.61%)
2016 - 139,833 (41.3%)
2018 - 114,560 (31.68%)
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Early Voting in Galveston County
2014 - 40,573 (21.14%)
2016 - 101,488 (48.74%)
2018 - 90,166 (42.41%)
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Early Voting in Nueces County
2014 - 33,092 (17.4%)
2016 - 74,844 (37.52%)
2018 - 67,630 (32.96%)
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Early Voting in Cameron County
2014 - 22,529 (12.08%)
2016 - 64,239 (32.49%)
2018 - 54,576 (26.37%)
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The campaign finance site owned by Empower Texans did a look back at the 2018 elections on 12/18/18. The question they asked was “Who’s Really Buying Texas?”
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The site (again, owned by ET) pushes this “Context matters” point, but then provide a fairly skewed context. They mashed all of the dollars spent in campaigns into one massive bucket. Then they point to themselves and say “see, we didn’t give that much”.
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Pulling out a longer term lens and graphed a few things since 2008. It's striking how things are escalating.
Long term lens #1: Empower Texans
This is total contributions in, by year, and the major donors. Remember, election cycles are 13-14, 15-16, 17-18. Big funding surge when Paxton & Patrick run. Can we stop with any talk that ET is grassroots? It's not now, and never was.
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Long term lens #2: Wilks Brothers
This is total contributions made, by year, who they gave to. Pay attention folks.
2012 cycle - $106,500
2014 cycle - $908,955
2016 cycle - $3,344,734
2018 cycle - $5,197,988
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Midterms are done, at least as far as contribution to campaigns are concerned. There have been several looks at spending by the far right groups, specifically Empower Texans. I think they are seeing part of the picture, but not the whole enchilada. This will be the enchilada.
When I define ET World, it's three categories of donors to Texas elections
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(ET) = Empower Texans PAC, Texans For Fiscal Responsibility PAC, and Texas Right To Life PAC
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