Two Democrats and one Republican have announced they are running for speaker of the Texas House, vying to unseat the current ...

With Election Day in the past, the race for Texas House speaker is heating up as the Republican incumbent tries to hold onto ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan escaped a May primary runoff defeat by the skin of his teeth, but the Beaumont Republican’s ...

The race for speaker of the Texas House has narrowed, pitting Beaumont Republican Dade Phelan, who has held the gavel since 2021, against Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, who has emerged as the ...

It's no secret that the former president has castigated both Texas Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas House Speaker ...

Read more https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/speaker-dade-phelan-slams-ken-paxton-in-campaign-ad/ In a new campaign ad, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, R ...

Neither Speaker Dade Phelan, nor his current opponent Rep. David Cook, have enough public support yet from the GOP caucus to ...

The new class of Republican lawmakers who will head to Austin in January could also spell trouble for current House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont). Several Republicans have already said they ...

On Thursday, the jostling to hold the speaker’s gavel resumed with insurgent candidate Rep. David Cook, R-Mansfield, saying ...

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David Cook, R-Mansfield, saying incumbent Speaker Dade Phelan does not have enough support from House Republicans to win. “We cannot continue to govern effectively without the Republican majorit ...