Episode 9: The 2026 Texas Two-Step, with Gabby Birenbaum from The Texas Tribune

Decision Desk HQ Podcast · Dec 11, 2025 · 52m

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the candidate filing deadline for the state’s 2026 primaries. To help unravel what happened around Texas’s Dec. 8 filing date and what to look ahead to in 2026, Decision Desk HQ Chief Elections Analyst Geoffrey Skelley was joined by Gabby Birenbaum, the Washington Correspondent for The Texas Tribune. We dug into many of Texas’s key primaries that will take place on March 3, the potential runoffs that could happen on May 26, and the potential November ramifications of those nomination contests.

There was too much to talk about, really. In the state’s…