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Allred campaigns for Senate and fellow Democrats to join him on next year's ballot

KACU | By Heather Claborn,
George Levesque
Published July 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM CDT
Colin Allred at KACU
Colin Allred at KACU

The election for Texas’s US Senate Seat may be more than a year away, but the race to get onto the ballot is already hot.

Attorney General Ken Paxton is challenging John Cornyn for the Republican spot on the ballot. Cornyn, who’s held the seat since 2002, has been working to emphasize his conservative credentials with voters, as several rounds of polling give Paxton a double-digit lead.

On the Democratic side, former Congressman Colin Allred and retired astronaut Terry Virts are competing to become their party’s candidate.

Allred spoke with KACU's West Texas Dispatch about his candidacy and his work to recruit other Democrats to run for local office.
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Heather Claborn
Heather Claborn joined KACU as news director in January 2018. She oversees daily newscast and feature reporting and works with KACU’s news anchors to develop newscasts. She also conducts two-way interviews, reports for newscast and feature stories and maintains the station’s social media and website content. In 2020, Claborn helped staff develop the daily newsletter that is delivered by email.
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George Levesque
George Levesque is the host of the West Texas Dispatch. He hails from Colorado City, Texas. Levesque graduated from McMurry University with a degree in theatre in 1996. He had a long broadcasting career both during and after college. After years in radio, George began work as a TV journalist in February of 2000. George anchored the news for KTXS Television for nearly 18 years until he left to take the helm at the Historic Paramount Theatre in June of 2018. In 2023, George was given the yearly award for Individual Contribution by the League of Historic American Theatres.
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