Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.
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Today begins what should be quite an active pattern across Texas for the next seven days. Rounds of showers and storms will develop across the state. Today, the severe risk is greatest for Dallas-Fort Worth, where scattered storms could develop and produce large hail and damaging winds. A tornado can not be ruled out as well. That threat extends down I-35 to Austin and the Hill Country, but confidence is lower on whether storms will develop there. Another risk of severe storms will move in on Friday.
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Around Texas
1. Talarico wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate
State Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, has defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, in an expensive and fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.
Talarico will either take on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton or incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn in the general election, as the Republican primary race heads to a runoff.
2. Republican U.S. Senate primary leads to runoff between Cornyn and Paxton
The Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Texas is heading to a runoff between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to the Associated Press.
All three of the Republican candidates were vying for President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race, but the president said he hadn’t made a decision and that he liked all three of them.
3. GOP challenger Steve Toth ousts Rep. Dan Crenshaw in Texas primary
Republican challenger Steve Toth defeated U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Tuesday night, ousting the only House Republican in Texas who President Donald Trump didn’t endorse heading into the nation’s first big primary of 2026.
Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL whose independent streak sometimes clashed with fellow Republicans, spent the primary trying to fend off attacks from the party’s hard right that he was not in step with Trump’s agenda.
Around The Nation
1. Trump says Iran was going to attack first, touts U.S. operation during meeting with German leader
2. Israel steps up airstrikes in Tehran; Iran targets U.S. embassies
3. Noem blames ‘violent protesters’ for Minneapolis chaos under tough questioning in Senate hearing
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Primary voter Allie Davis carries her seven-week-old son Declan as a Dallas County Election Navigator checks her ID before entering a voting center in Dallas, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Change in primary voting rules leads to confusion in 2 Texas counties as voters are turned away
A rule change for primary voting in two Texas counties created mass confusion Tuesday that eventually led to a state Supreme Court ruling, threats of more legal action and the potential that an untold number of voters could find themselves disenfranchised.
The chaos had the most direct potential impact on the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. The county with the greatest number of affected voters includes Dallas and is the home base for Rep. Jasmine Crockett, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump who was in a tight race with state lawmaker James Talarico.