As many of you know, Texas’s 2026 primary is held next Tuesday, and early voting is already underway. There are a slew of tightly contested races up and down the ballot within both parties, many of which seem likely to head to a later runoff. (Expect a rip-roaring, Texas mesquite–smoked Carnival of Fools on Tuesday previewing it all.)

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But the true headliner is the one race that will likely be decided on the night, however narrowly: soon-to-be former Representative Jasmine Crockett versus Texas State Representative James Talarico, for the privilege of running for Senate in November. A Democratic Senate nomination normally wouldn’t be worth a jar of warm sputum in a state as Republican as Texas, but these are not normal times: Republicans seem suicidally intent on turfing out incumbent Senator John Cornyn in favor of incandescently corrupt state Attorney General Ken Paxton, which puts the seat........

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