Edgar Sandoval 👓📝

@nytimes reporter👨🏻‍💻in San Antonio 🤠 & @PSUPress author (The New Face of Small Town America) Email me @ [email protected] 4 Signal & Whattsapp

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

How Gina Hinojosa Captured Texas

On Tuesday, Ms. Hinojosa denied Mr. Abbott a record-setting fourth term. She became the first Democrat to win statewide office in more than 30 years and the first Latina to be elected governor in Texas.

https://t.co/wKrmXZqjdB via @NYTimes

[Ginger Adams Otis @GingerOtis]

@edjsandoval covers one of the biggest upsets from last night! https://t.co/EDvvdesJvR

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

How Gina Hinojosa Captured Texas

On Tuesday, Ms. Hinojosa denied Mr. Abbott a record-setting fourth term. She became the first Democrat to win statewide office in more than 30 years and the first Latina to be elected governor in Texas.

https://t.co/wKrmXZqjdB via @NYTimes

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

Gina Hinojosa is now elected governor of Texas. She took the stage to thunderous cheers. “ We showed anything is possible,” she said. “It never bothered me that they doubted me. It bothered me that they doubted us.” Follow live updates here: https://t.co/pvqvQ8GC9M

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

Texas may never be the same.

https://t.co/f6p7PgW7p3

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

NEW: Ken Paxton became known as “Teflon Ken,” the man who, despite his many scandals, always pulled out a win. Now, he is the face of the worst Republican wipeout in modern Texas history.

“People will study this campaign failure, this ridiculous candidate, for decades," said @MattMackowiak. https://t.co/SSsQSJ8noC

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

Gina Hinojosa is now elected governor of Texas. She took the stage to thunderous cheers. “ We showed anything is possible,” she said. “It never bothered me that they doubted me. It bothered me that they doubted us.” Follow live updates here: https://t.co/pvqvQ8GC9M

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

People are cautiously optimistic less than an hour
after the polls closed in Texas. Both #GinaHinojosa & #JamesTalarico are ahead in the early vote. #Midterms2026

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

People are cautiously optimistic less than an hour
after the polls closed in Texas. Both #GinaHinojosa & #JamesTalarico are ahead in the early vote. #Midterms2026

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

The scene at Ken Paxton’s watch party in Dallas, Texas just after polls closed across much of the state. Yes, there’s an actual cannon.

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

From cowboy boots to corridos, Ken Paxton and James Talarico are battling over "what makes a Texan." https://t.co/97OE4yex6b

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

Greg Abbott, the TX governor vying for a historic fourth term, told supporters in San Antonio, that this looks to be one of the most challenging elections of his career. “We have to keep Texas, Texas,” he told the crowd.
Follow live updates here:
https://t.co/xtUykwCatf

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

Greg Abbott, the TX governor vying for a historic fourth term, told supporters in San Antonio, that this looks to be one of the most challenging elections of his career. “We have to keep Texas, Texas,” he told the crowd.
Follow live updates here:
https://t.co/xtUykwCatf

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

Last night at a James Talarico rally, I came across a man wearing an Elon Musk inflatable suit and a mask of Talarico’s opponent, Ken Paxton, holding a blank check. He said he didn’t like that Musk had injected millions of dollars into the #Texas #midterm elections.

[Sasha von Oldershausen @sashavono]

In the race for Senate, Texas culture has become its own battleground.

I wrote about how how Paxton and Talarico are competing to prove their Texas bona fides.

https://t.co/tK2ldZ5Z8L

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

LIVE: Gina Hinojosa, the Democrat trying to deny Greg Abbott a fourth term as governor, spoke to hundreds at a rally in San Antonio. She criticized him for pushing a universal private school voucher program in Texas. Follow live updates here:
https://t.co/lQEvH70pej

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

James Talarico, the U.S. Senate D nominee, ended his nearly 30-minute speech at a rally in San Antonio by comparing himself to the biblical David facing the giant Goliath. “San Antonio, you are my slingshot. The people of Texas are my slingshot,” he said to thunderous applause. “

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BREAKING: A grand jury in Texas on Friday indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who struck and injured a Mexican construction worker with a vehicle in Houston this month, the authorities said. https://t.co/lKxYzJ4Tn6 via @NYTimes

[Edgar Sandoval 👓📝 @edjsandoval]

BREAKING: A grand jury in Texas on Friday indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who struck and injured a Mexican construction worker with a vehicle in Houston this month, the authorities said. https://t.co/lKxYzJ4Tn6 via @NYTimes

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

Texas AG Ken Paxton has taken about 350 out-of-state trips with a state-funded security detail, including 25 to foreign countries.

During a 2017 Israel trip, organizers said Paxton insisted on his own security despite the government providing it for six other AGs. His detail cost $75,000.

New with @bethreinhard:

https://t.co/tbYspKr9qw #txlege