Ross Ramsey
is executive editor and co-founder of The Texas Tribune. Before joining the Tribune, Ross was editor and co-owner of Texas Weekly for 15 years. He did a 28-month stint in government as associate deputy comptroller for policy and director of communications with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Before that, he reported for the Houston Chronicle from its Austin bureau and for the Dallas Times Herald, first on the business desk in Dallas and later as its Austin bureau chief, and worked as a Dallas-based freelance business writer, writing for regional and national magazines and newspapers. Ross got his start in journalism in broadcasting, covering news for radio stations in Denton and Dallas.
Recent Contributions
State senator Ken Paxton with supporters as he announces his win as the republican primary nominee for Attorney General on Tuesday, May 27, 2014.
Chip Roy, who has worked for several of the state's top elected officials and currently works in U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's political office, is the leading candidate to be first assistant to Attorney General-elect Ken Paxton.
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Thousands of Texans who voted in 2010 did not come back to do it again in 2014, and most of those voted for the Democratic candidate for governor four years ago. At the same time, another kind of voting — mail ballots — is booming.
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The best of our best content from Nov. 3 to 7, 2014.
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If you want to know how the officeholders you elected on Tuesday will govern, look at how they ran and what the voters responded to.
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Selected races — with results from the election — ranked by expected risk to the incumbents and/or the level of drama for candidates and voters in the state's congressional and legislative races.
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graphic by: Todd Wiseman, Ryan Murphy
Take a county-by-county look at how the percentage of registered voters who cast ballots for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate changed between 2010 and 2014.
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Use our interactive maps to compare which Texas counties went red and which went blue in the 2010 and 2014 Texas governor's races.
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Attorney General Greg Abbott, who was elected Texas governor, waves to supporters after his victory speech in Austin on Nov. 4, 2014.
Texas voters reasserted themselves in the face of ballyhooed Democratic voter turnout efforts: This remains — emphatically — a Republican state.
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Early voting at the Acres Home Multiservice Center in Houston on Oct. 26, 2014.
It's Election Day, and Texans will turn over every statewide executive office, settle some locally important legislative and congressional races, and decide on issues like transportation funding.
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is interviewed by Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post at the Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 20, 2014.
If the Republicans win control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday's elections, the second-ranking member of what is now the minority party — John Cornyn of Texas — could be sitting pretty.
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The best of our best content from Oct. 27 to 31, 2014.
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photo by: Bob Daemmrich / Laura Buckman
Gubernatorial candidates Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis are shown on primary night on March 4, 2014.
As the election season comes to a close, it's instructive to see whom the candidates call in for special appearances and reinforcement — and whom they don't call on at all.
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In which we rank the races — one last time before Election Day — by risk to the incumbents and/or the level of drama for candidates and voters in the state's congressional and legislative races.
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While a large majority of Texas voters would allow either gay marriages or civil unions, gay marriages alone still have more opposition than support, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Signs greeting early voters outside the Lakeside Activity Center in Mesquite.
Texas is a red state when it comes to electoral politics. But in its second-largest county, some Republican incumbents are playing defense. And at least one other is hoping for an upset in the heart of Dallas County.
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