The 2022 political season is just starting, but there are already three Republicans with statewide experience running for attorney general — including the incumbent.

A session transformed by COVID-19 protocols is giving way to a political cycle already disrupted by the pandemic’s effects on state government.

Police say former Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst pushed his girlfriend into a concrete bench as they struggled over a laptop.

Former Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has been arrested on a charge of domestic violence in Dallas, according to police.

The 2012 party primary elections in Texas were held May 29 instead of March 6 that year — the result of litigation over new political maps drawn to fit the 2010 census. It’s not just a calendar thing; moving those dates can have a real influence on an election’s results. The runoff elections, naturally enough, were pushed back, too, from May to the last day of July. The filing deadlines were moved along with the elections, but the net effect was a protracted primary election season — and a shortened general election season. Once the state has maps, candidates can file, raise money, campaign and press toward an election date — once they know what that election date is.