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In the aftermath of his party’s brutal shellacking in the 2024 elections, Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa has announced he will step down in March. Over his 12-year tenure ...
(The Center Square) – After Republicans won races statewide, especially in South Texas, the chair of the Texas Democratic Party, Gilberto Hinojosa, said he plans to resign next year after ...
Delegates also elect a state party chair. At the 2012 Texas Democratic Party Convention in Houston, delegates elected Gilberto Hinojosa as the new chair of the state party. Hinojosa is a former school board trustee, district judge, and county judge from Cameron County. [19]
Old party New party Notes Galusha A. Grow: Pennsylvania: 14th: February–June 1856 34th: Democratic: Republican: He switched parties in the wake of President Pierce's signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. John J. O'Connor: New York: 16th: October 24, 1938 75th: Democratic: Republican: Lost Democratic renomination, defeated for re-election as a ...
(The Center Square) – Another longtime Texas Democrat has switched parties, joining the Republican Party, this time in the border county of Webb. Webb County flipped red in November, joining ...
For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making it part of the Solid South.In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent.
Caucused with the Democrats after becoming an independent, giving Democrats a majority in the US Senate. His switch became the only time in US history that a party switch resulted in a change of party control of the Senate. [29] [30] Robert M. La Follette Jr. Wisconsin: May 1934: 74th: Republican: Wisconsin Progressive
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), the newly elected chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, weighed in on Democrats’ future strategy, saying the party needs to prioritize victory with a stronger ...