Inside the Fight to Flip the Biggest Battleground in Texas

Summary

Earlier this year, Republicans slashed 92 polling locations in one Texas county. It’s pretty obvious why… Tarrant County has been an incubator for the far right and might be the state’s bellwether. Now Democrats hope it can power a blue wave. While James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa have captured most of the headlines (guilty), the stakes are high in Tarrant County’s local races, where Republicans have held power for decades. Alisa Simmons, a Democratic county commissioner, is in a tight race against the incumbent county judge Tim O’Hare—a conservative Bo French ally who pushed the reduction in…

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