On Election Day, a few more stories. If you didn’t vote early, please get out and vote!
Let’s start with couple of additional relevant voter guides for you: The Dallas Free Press’ Dallas Voter Guide and The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the May 2025 School Board Elections, which was being updated with new districts this week.
In other election news:
- Dallas Morning News: Free rides to the polls for North Texas voters on the May 3 Election. Rideshare2Vote AWARE will take voters in Dallas, Tarrant, Rockwall and Collin counties to the polls today.
- Texas Tribune: Will Saturday’s elections be the last one in May for Texas? The House is considering a bill to move May elections to November in future years.
- KERA: Who is Families for Irving? What to know about the PAC backing 3 city council candidates. It was started by someone who didn’t like naughty books in the public library.
- D Magazine: Two New PACs Get Busy in Dallas Elections. Steven Monacelli did the research and found one PAC was a front for the Dallas County GOP and the other was a front for AirBnB.
- Related, from KERA: Political action committees spend thousands on local North Texas races. This covers the Dallas PACs, the Irving story mentioned above, and other area PACs heavily invested in the May elections. Follow the money!
- DMN: Dallas City Council elections have raked in $1.6 million in donations. Follow the money here too.
- KERA: North Texas voters to decide on billions in school bonds this election. A good list of the area districts trying to get their finances settled before the voucher bill kills their property tax base.
- DMN: Dallas County early voting numbers spike on last day ahead of May 3 election. About 5% of Dallas County voters got in during early voting. Also on KERA: https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-04-29/dallas-countys-early-voting-turnout-ahead-of-saturdays-election-lower-than-normal. They have a less positive spin than the DMN on the same numbers. And from the Lake Highlands Advocate: Early voting turnout mixed at Audelia Road Library. That’s my local voting center, where I voted on Tuesday.
- Fort Worth Report: Less than 5% of Tarrant County voted early ahead of May 3 election. It was 4.95%, so really about the same as Dallas County.
- DMN: As early voting begins, Dallas County officials are confident in new check-in devices. I asked my local election workers about the new pollbooks when I voted. They were happy with them.
- DMN: How partisanship could affect year’s Dallas City Council elections. Mayor Johnson’s party switch opened up the city council races; he’d been a Democrat at the state level but ran for mayor without partisan emphasis. That said, the rise of MAGA and Patriot Mobile and their local efforts on school boards here in North Texas meant it was only a matter of time until other local races developed partisan leanings as well.
- Star-Telegram: Early voting started Tuesday, April 22. What to know to vote in Tarrant County. Their election catch-up and guidance on how to prepare to vote.
- Mark Steger/The Wheel: LWV Forum for Richardson City Council. Steger is a blogger who covers Richardson politics and regularly attends forums and meetings.
- DMN: Richardson ballot error on first day of early voting will not impact any race outcome. The first-day ballots omitted four races where the incumbents had no challengers. Oops.
- Mark Steger/The Wheel: Following the Money behind Dubey’s Mudslinging. Steger chased down one of the sources of money in the Richardson mayor’s race.
- Star-Telegram: Mansfield mayor calls out right-wing influence in race; challenger embraces it. The challenger has rallied with Bo French and Allen West (chairs of the Tarrant and Dallas county GOP) and the True Texas Project.
- DMN: $340 million performing arts center takes center stage in Frisco election. This is half the cost of the proposed Frisco Center for the Arts.