Texas on Seven Lights https://sevenlights.org/tags/texas/ Recent content in Texas on Seven Lights Hugo en-us Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:30:00 -0500 Talarico wins Texas Senate seat, first Democrat since 1988 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/04/talarico-wins-texas-senate-seat/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/04/talarico-wins-texas-senate-seat/ CBS News projected that Democratic state Representative James Talarico defeated Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, giving Democrats their first Texas Senate seat since 1988. Four Dead and 15 Injured in Dallas Shootings on Halloween Weekend https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/01/dallas-halloween-shootings-deep-ellum/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/01/dallas-halloween-shootings-deep-ellum/ Three separate shootings in Dallas’s Deep Ellum district killed four people and injured 15 in little over an hour, as mass shootings near college events left dead and wounded in Alabama, Delaware and other states. Talarico, Paxton in dead heat for Texas Senate, Abbott leads governor's race: Poll https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/22/talarico-paxton-texas-senate-dead-heat/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:20:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/22/talarico-paxton-texas-senate-dead-heat/ Democrat James Talarico leads Republican Ken Paxton 48 percent to 46 percent in new Emerson College Polling numbers for the Texas Senate race, The Hill reported.