Rep. Linda Garcia (D-Mesquite) is one of nearly 60 Texas House members that left the state on Aug. 3 to stop Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session, and in turn, a Republican plan to flip five US House seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“ It was an easy decision in the sense that we knew we had to fight for democracy and what our constituents put us in place to do, so we knew that we had to leave,” Garcia told COURIER Texas.
During a town hall in Plano on Monday, State Rep. James Talarico—who is running for US Senate—discussed how his campaign aims to address growing concerns over data centers being built across Texas.
Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico addresses nearly 2,000 people at the Plano Event Center on Monday night during a town hall where he discussed how his campaign is fighting for working-class Texans.
Watch as former educator and US Senate candidate James Talarico—an Austin Democrat—shares how he plans to boost teacher pay in Texas during a town hall on Monday in Plano.
