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31 Senators.
The Same Method.

Every press release from every Texas state senator’s pressroom on senate.texas.gov, scraped four times daily, since January 2025.

Same archive, same provenance discipline as the U.S. Senate corpus — but a fundamentally different publishing pattern. Coverage starts thin: only 18 of 30 TX senators publish online.

314press releases
18of 30 publishing
12silent
Jan 1, 2025to present

18R · 12D·D4 vacant·archive begins January 2025·full feed·search·Live: Apr 29

Press releases per senator

Sorted by volume since Jan 2025. The 12senators with no records aren't a collection failure — their pressrooms are live and we re-check daily. Click any senator to see their archive (or empty pressroom).

Volume by month

The 89th Texas Legislature's regular session ran January 14 to June 2, 2025. That's when most senators publish — and when the silent caucus stays silent.

What they talk about

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Most-mentioned terms across 314Texas Senate press releases since January 2025. Different vocabulary than Washington — school finance, water rights, property tax, legislative procedure.

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Latest from the Texas Senate

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Top publishers

  1. 1César Blanco
    Blanco (D-D29)
    79
  2. 2Paul Bettencourt
    Bettencourt (R-D7)
    60
  3. 3Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa
    Hinojosa (D-D20)
    49
  4. 4Robert Nichols
    Nichols (R-D3)
    21
  5. 5Sarah Eckhardt
    Eckhardt (D-D14)
    20

5 senators account for 73% of all Texas Senate press releases since January 2025.

The silent caucus

These 12 senators have published nothing on senate.texas.gov since January 2025. Each link below opens their actual pressroom — we're not missing the page; the page is empty.

Full directory

30 members
SortBy districtBy volumeBy partyA–Z
Dist.SenatorPartyReleases
1Bryan HughesBryan HughesRepublican1
2Bob HallBob HallRepublican—
3Robert NicholsRobert NicholsRepublican21
5Charles SchwertnerCharles SchwertnerRepublican—
6Carol AlvaradoCarol AlvaradoDemocrat—
7Paul BettencourtPaul BettencourtRepublican60
8Angela PaxtonAngela PaxtonRepublican1
9Taylor RehmetTaylor RehmetDemocrat—
10Phil KingPhil KingRepublican—
11Mayes MiddletonMayes MiddletonRepublican1
12Tan ParkerTan ParkerRepublican6
13Borris MilesBorris MilesDemocrat—
14Sarah EckhardtSarah EckhardtDemocrat20
15Molly CookMolly CookDemocrat12
16Nathan JohnsonNathan JohnsonDemocrat7
17Joan HuffmanJoan HuffmanRepublican7
18Lois KolkhorstLois KolkhorstRepublican13
19Roland GutierrezRoland GutierrezDemocrat—
20Juan "Chuy" HinojosaJuan "Chuy" HinojosaDemocrat49
21Judith ZaffiriniJudith ZaffiriniDemocrat13
22Brian BirdwellBrian BirdwellRepublican2
23Royce WestRoyce WestDemocrat5
24Pete FloresPete FloresRepublican—
25Donna CampbellDonna CampbellRepublican—
26José MenéndezJosé MenéndezDemocrat—
27Adam HinojosaAdam HinojosaRepublican10
28Charles PerryCharles PerryRepublican—
29César BlancoCésar BlancoDemocrat79
30Brent HagenbuchBrent HagenbuchRepublican—
31Kevin SparksKevin SparksRepublican7

Source: each member's pressroom on senate.texas.gov. Backfilled to January 1, 2025 and re-checked daily. District 4 is vacant pending the May 2026 special election. District 9 (Rehmet) was sworn in February 2026 and has not begun publishing. Photos are official portraits from senate.texas.gov. Body text is extracted from the linked PDF or HTML detail page on every record; videos link out. The DB count for every senator was verified against the live pressroom on Apr 29 (30/30 match). Full scraper methodology · Methodology · Back to U.S. Senate archive