Texas Democrats field candidates for every federal and state legislative race.

[RandySF]

For the first time in several cycles, Democrats are fielding candidates in every federal and state legislative race in Texas. Among the targeted seats, Morales singled out three Democratic candidates who are running unopposed in their primaries — Zach Hebert in HD 112, Kristian Carranza in HD 118 and Zach Dunn in HD 121 — as contenders who “can relate to the community there and have the right messaging.”

“Republicans have been so good about putting us on the defense, but I want us to focus on being on the offense this time around,” Morales said.

The DLCC has yet to release its own list of Texas House seats that it plans to target.

Democrats have only lost ground in the Texas House since 2018, when the party picked up 12 seats in the lower chamber. In 2020, Democrats failed to net any districts despite a well-financed effort aimed at flipping control of the chamber. With both chambers remaining under GOP control, Republicans redrew district lines in 2021 that helped them pick up three Democratic seats in 2022 and two more in 2024.



https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/10/texas-house-legislature-election-2026-national-democrats/

[electric_blue68]

1. Good Luck, Texas Dems!

[mopinko]

2. this better happen in every red state.

we dont appreciate the sacrificial lambs nearly enough. i’ve worked a couple campaigns where we lost, and we knew we wd. the party hung us out to dry.
but that’s how u build a party. sometimes it takes a few cycles. but if we put up nobody, we have nobody to tell our side of the story. we let them define us.

and like they say- u lose 100% of the seats u dont bother to contest.
this is what the 50 state strategy was all about.
howard dean was right about everything.