If the educators had a bad night, so did the far-right Empower Texans. The group had targeted sixteen Texas House Republican incumbents for defeat in an effort to affect next year’s election of a House speaker. (The members of the House are the ones who elect a speaker.) The targeted members are fiscal conservatives, not social policy conservatives. Of Empower Texans’s targets, only Faircloth and Jason Villalba of Dallas went down to defeat. Now, Empower Texans will have to defend about a dozen social conservative incumbent Republicans in the Dallas/Fort Worth area who are in potential swing districts that the Democrats are challenging.

// far-right *eyeroll* it's a conservative activist group. why can't it just be called that?

when are lib groups ever called far-left?

so funny how Sullivan is in the heads of so many TLSPM fools.

And in any case, it's not easy knocking off incumbents -- 2 of 16 doesn't strike me as that horrible.