My grandpa is turning 90, this month... And he's out here, splitting logs like NBD 😳🌲⛏️👴

Gina Hinojosa met with Beto O’Rourke before running. "Not one person can win Texas," he told her. "It has to be two." She and Talarico ran as a ticket, each appealing to different areas and demographics. Together, they changed what’s possible in Texas. theatlantic.com/politics/202…

Semafor: Annie Andrews knew she was winning in October — but kept the poll secret On Oct. 5, the Andrews campaign received a poll showing her with a 3-point lead over Graham. But the Democrat’s campaign decided against publicly releasing the poll — or any subsequent internal poll — showing Andrews with a lead over Graham, wary of drawing too much attention from national Republicans and jeopardizing a peak at the right time, according to Chas Goldman, a strategist for Andrews. semafor.com/article/11/04/20…

Gina Hinojosa had many golden soundbites in her victory speech — but what she said about immediately firing Mike Morath and shutting vouchers down might be top. Texas rejected the entire R statewide slate — despite no Dems elected since 1994 — after vouchers went into effect.

Gina Hinojosa delivers the agenda for Public Education Texas: “On Day One, I will fire Mike Morath and we will work tirelessly to repair the damage of the Texas voucher scam - And end an era in which our schools are sold for parts:”

Here at Ken Paxton HQ, man in crowd yells “no!” as race called called for James Talarico. Then “Gloria” begins playing loudly on speakers.

Governor Abbott had $105.7 MILLION when he ran for his FOURTH term 😬 And he was the first to do mid-decade redistricting. He and every single statewide Republican candidate just lost Texas. Democrats hadn’t won Texas since 1994, y’all!

When Ken Paxton was caught spending America’s 250th vacationing in England — whose king we’d declared independence from — with his latest mistress, I knew his campaign was cooked 😬

Dallas County, you can vote at ANY of the 444 polling places in the county — even in different cities — until 7 PM today! 🗳️ Check @DallasElections for an interactive map of all 444 places you can vote — plus answering any of your questions, including what’s on your ballot. 📝

Unearthed audio: Mike Johnson confirms Republicans have “plans” to cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare if they win the midterms

Tick Tock --> How Trump put the Senate in play - Picked JD Vance as his running mate, opening up tough expensive special election that GOP could lose. DeWine appointed Husted, who originally wanted to run for governor. Close race that wouldn't have been up til '28 otherwise - Tangled with Tillis over healthcare cuts in 2025, prompting his retirement. Thune said then Tillis "knew how to run and win in North Carolina." Trump cleared field for Whatley, who is down by large margin. - Cold-shouldered Cornyn then backed Paxton. Cornyn: “Texas was an unforced error, I think, on the part of the president... if I won the nomination, then that would be a layup in November. That’s all off the table.” - Backed Sen. Darline Graham in crowded SC race, most senators thought she'd be an interim senator. Now in toss-up race against Annie Andrews with state GOP divided. Andrews: "Darline was going to be easier for me.” - Tried to oust Kemp in '22; when Georgia race came up this cycle, Kemp passed on the race. Trump backed Rep. Mike Collins over Kemp's pick Dooley, now huge underdog to Sen. Ossoff - Tariffs, filibuster pressure and of course, the Iran War: “Every negative for the GOP this cycle is a downstream effect of Iran" w/ @ShelbyTalcott semafor.com/article/11/02/20…

Darline Graham admits she doesn’t want to be a US Senator and blames her dead brother for putting her in the position of having to run: “When I get to heaven one day, I am just going to choke Lindsey.” nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/da…

Not sure how Moreno can square this with endorsing Ramaswamy to be the governor of his state.

Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing. She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once (the victim in this 1974 indictment); she remembered Amy lived in a tent with Donna and Cledith; it's been terrible for her family to see Vivek's ad run in Ohio; and she heard rumors her father had victimized even more young girls.

Dolores Huerta was still appearing in public this month — seen at the California Museum, for the historical exhibit she helped create on mass deportations, below. She showed up through the very end of her 96 years. 🕊️ RIP!

'Absolutely ridiculous': Dallas still hasn’t received Republican midterm convention reimbursement | KERA kera.org/2026/10/27/dallas-p…

NEW: For @texasobserver, I dug into the ginned up “October surprises” in the Senate race in Texas. Most notably, the bogus transgender mailers, which trace back to a printing shop whose owners are major Republican donors with ties to Dallas megadonors. texasobserver.org/ken-paxton…

Gina Hinojosa tried to recruit someone to run against Greg Abbott in the Texas gubernatorial race. “I couldn’t find a taker, because Abbott had a hundred million dollars,” she said. “Then I just realized, ‘Look, I’ve been fighting this man for years. I can do this.’ ” newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

WaPo reports that a woman featured in a $1 million Republican ad warning that an Iowa Democrat running for congress is “dangerous” for children previously pleaded guilty to child endangerment after driving drunk with her two young kids in the car. washingtonpost.com/politics/…

Everyone wish Happy Birthday to my Mama! 🎂👩‍🍼 Are we The Judds of today? 🤔 Cuz our impromptu porch photo shoot reminded me of their album covers 😂😂😂 Swipe right, and see what I mean? ➡️ “Mama, he’s crazy!” Mama isn’t on social media, but I’ll read her all your comments! 🥳

This Forbes investigation is a must-read. Donald Trump pulled in roughly $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500 million. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825 million. He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general alleged two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than double what he paid for the entire resort. A month after the Jupiter deal, he sued the IRS. The settlement his own Justice Department signed bars claims against him over matters that "could be pending," language that appears broad enough to cover this year's taxes. A federal judge found the case was brought to manipulate the judicial process. And the man now running the IRS, who took the job as this deal was being assembled, has a home backing onto those same Jupiter fairways. This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody should be able to use the presidency to write his own tax bill. forbes.com/sites/danalexande…