Politics moved fast this week, and we kept pace. A late-night announcement from Rep. Tony Gonzalez scrambles a marquee runoff and gives Brandon Herrera a straight shot to November, sharpening a broader rightward shift already visible in Texas primaries. We connect those dots to Harris County’s sobering turnout math, where Democrats not only owned early voting but also stormed Election Day, raising hard questions about apathy, runoffs, and who really builds the ballot long before November arri...