Oops. Battleground Texas, a liberal group working to boost Democratic hopes in conservative Texas, admitted Friday that it erred in claiming that early voter turnout in the 70 largest counties was rising dramatically. State figures show turnout is flat at best so far.

Politicians are always griping that their opponents are leveling false charges against them. But when Democrat Susan Motley complained about a Republican attack on her in a state House race, GOP chairman Steve Munisteri agreed. And now he's issued a rare retraction, at the cost of thousands of dollars, to voters in north Texas.

The biggest single cluster of Texas voters has not been to the polls so far this year: Texans who vote only in November. That group outnumbers those who vote in either the Republican or the Democratic primaries. Both parties are counting on this group.

Full video of my 9/10 TribLive conversation with Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa and Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri.

At the 2014 RedState Gathering, a national conference hosted by the conservative blog, GOP gubernatorial nominee Greg Abbott focused much of his 25-minute speech on policy proposals and Wendy Davis, his Democratic challenger. Abbott was introduced by RedState Editor-in-Chief Erick Erickson.

Gov. Rick Perry's full remarks to hundreds of conservative bloggers at the annual Red State Gathering held on Aug. 8 in Fort Worth, where he vowed to take the Texas approach to government national. Perry was introduced by RedState Editor-in-Chief Erick Erickson.

With help from The Washington Post’s Truth Teller, we’re analyzing the speeches that Texas’ candidates for lieutenant governor gave at their respective state political party conventions. Here we focus on Republican state Sen. Dan Patrick.

Attorney General Greg Abbott has amassed a $35.6 million war chest in the race for Texas governor. His Democratic opponent, Sen. Wendy Davis, says she has $13.1 million for the effort. 

State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, speaking at the Texas Democratic Party convention on Friday night, referred to the GOP as "Gringos y Otros Pendejos." The line drew gasps and laughter from the audience and sputtering anger from conservatives on social media.

John Cornyn's campaign is actively seeking to reach diverse communities that haven’t been traditional Republican supporters, from Indian-Americans to Latinos in the border colonias. And his team is trying to use Tea Party-style strategies to do it. Democrats have two words for them: good luck. 

On this week's edition of WFAA-TV's Inside Texas Politics, I talked with host Jason Whitely and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Bud Kennedy about the latest UT/Texas Tribune poll, Eric Cantor, the GOP state platform, and more.

The Texas GOP's hardline stance on immigration in its recently approved party platform has drawn criticism from Democrats and some Republicans. And it comes amid a gubernatorial race in which both Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis are working to court Hispanic voters.

After hours of debate on the final day of the biennial state GOP convention, Republican delegates reverted the party's immigration plank to a more hardline stance on immigration.

State Sen. Dan Patrick, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, told delegates at the state GOP convention that the party will attract Hispanic voters, because Republicans stand "for the future of their family."

In 1961, a Wichita Falls political science professor became the first Texas Republican to win a statewide seat since Reconstruction. It took another 37 years for the party to sweep the other major offices. That history provides insight into the challenges now facing Democrats, and the reasons Republicans are taking the current threat to their winning streak seriously.

With the long and contentious 2014 primary season over in Texas, it's state party convention time. And as Texas Republicans meet this week in Fort Worth to work on their party platform, immigration is set to be a key point of discussion.

The nasty tone of the runoff for lieutenant governor is not new in Texas politics — just think back to the 1990 Democratic runoff for governor between Jim Mattox and Ann Richards, which turned on his accusations of Richards abusing illegal drugs. But this year's runoff is a new test of how far attacks can go. 

At our May 8 TribLive conversation, state Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, a Republican candidate for Texas attorney general in 2014, laid out the case against his rival in the May 27 runoff, state Sen. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney.