Wood County Republican Party
Republican Convention announcement: on Saturday March 28th, 2026 at the Carroll Green Civic Center, 602 S. McAllister St, Quitman TX 75783, the Wood County Republican Precinct Conventions will begin check-in at 8:30am, to convene at 9am, usually ~90 minutes duration each, and later that same day in the same location the County Convention check-in will begin at 1:30pm, to convene at 2pm, usually a few hours in duration. More details are on the announcements-page, where you can PLEASE SUBMIT RESOLUTIONS ADVANCE, or if you have any questions please contact us, and in particular if you WANT to be a delegate but are NOT sure you will be able to attend in-person PLEASE definitely contact us ASAP.)
Elections: This spring, Republican voters are choosing their nominees in the Republican primary and the Republican runoff, our champions who will go up against a Democrat this November. The March 3rd primary election is now over — you can see preliminary statewide results as well as Wood county results — but canvassing and certification of the final official results will take a few more days. Note that if a race on the March primary ballot had 3+ Republican candidates, yet failed to produce a clear majority-winner with greater than 50% of the votes, there will be a top-two-runoff election in May 2026 to decide the Republican nominee for such races.
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Republican runoff
At present it looks like there will be at least five Republican top-two runoff elections, with election day on May 26th of 2026, and early voting in the runoff beginning May 18th. As we get closer to the runoff election, exact hours and voting-locations will be posted on Elections.MyWoodCounty.com — note that if you did NOT vote in the Republican primary (or in any other party primary or party convention) that you CAN vote in the Republican runoff this May. You can find out what your voting-precinct you belong to — and verify you ARE registered to vote — on the postcard the election office mails out, or by looking yourself up at the county level or at the statewide level.
To help inform the electorate of which candidates are on the runoff-ballot, and give you an idea of which way your fellow patriots in the local Republican movement are leaning at the moment, we have written up a one-pager listing the candidates which will (most likely) appear on your Republican runoff ballot, with links to their campaign-websites. Some of the well-known Republican clubs in Wood county will be holding runoff-straw-polls, as well.
Note that while you CAN take a hardcopy prinout (or your handwritten notes) into the voting booth with you while you are actually voting, you CANNOT use your cell phone, laptop, tablet, or other electronic devices for research-notes WHILE you are actually voting. (This is a security measure designed to keep voters from recording or photographing the ballot of anyone else to protect the secrecy of the ballot … as well as recording or photographing their OWN ballot for later use in an illegal bribery scheme where politiqueros pay for proof-of-voting-as-promised! Just like paper ballots are a more secure way to RUN an election, paper-voter-guides are a secure way to HELP yourself remember your research-notes WHILE voting.) Once you have printed out your one-pager, there is whitespace to the left of the candidate-names, if you would like to write in an arrow pointing at the candidate you prefer to support, onto the printed paper.
A few additional details about runoff-related activities… we are likely to see a runoff-straw-poll held at the March 9th 2026 + April 13th 2026 + May 11th 2026 meetings of the HollyLakeHawkinsGOP.com club, as well as at the March 24th 2026 + April 28th 2026 Lake Country Republicans club-meetings. Runoff-endorsements by the Wood County Republican Women will potentially occur at their March 16th 2026 + April 20th 2026 + May 18th 2026 club-meetings.
The purpose of the one-pager is to help Republican primary voters DO THEIR OWN research, prior to actually going in and voting. Rather than explicitly endorsing, or remaining silent, the local GOP this election-cycle decided to try providing a list of candidate-websites (in ballot-order) and publishing straw-poll-tallies. In past cycles, local clubs have sometimes done a more traditional voter-guide, which gave the candidate-names in ballot order, the candidate-websites, and some background-details that we copied from the candidate-websites or their application-for-a-place-on-the-ballot. However, the result was a ten-page full-color document, cumbersome for voters to actually take with them to the polling-place, and without giving any indication of which candidates were ‘likely to gain voter support’ it was fair to the candidates in some sense (albeit unfair in another sense), but forced the voters to DO THEIR OWN research. That is fair to the voters in some sense… but also pretty unfair! The 2026 one-pager still strongly encourages voters to do their own research, and we provide links for each race. The advantage to straw-poll-tallies is that it does allow voters to START by researching candidates that are ‘likely to gain voter support’ as indicated by the green boxes, rather than forcing the voter to research all candidates. Anecdotally, we have found that very few voters do THAT much research.
In addition to voting in the Republican runoff, and researching the Republican candidates, we urge you to get more involved. Running for office costs money, and so does getting the conservative message out. Candidates and PACs need donations to push for OUR beliefs in the public square, and to push back against the Dems. There are campaign-limits for federal *candidates*, but not for Texas candidates, and not really for federal PACs, either. Democrats have a LOT of out-of-state money pouring into Texas from places like the quality ‘learing’ centers in Minnesota, and our candidates need the firepower to fight back.
More important than money, however, is time: candidates need volunteers, people to help them knock on doors, people to help them make phone calls, even the old-fashioned stuff like helping to write letters and stuff envelopes. Candidates need your help to get the message out online: x.com, facebook.com, nextdoor.com, even your encrypted signal.org chats … help the good candidates via word-of-mouth. Candidates need you to put up their yardsigns — on your fence, in your grass, outside your business, and during the voting-schedule outside the polling-locations (must be 100′ away from the entrance… NOT in the right-of-way of the road either… look for the distance-marker to be sure you are far enough out). Candidates also need poll-watchers, see the link below. We have several local Republican clubs, and local precinct-chairs, which can help you get involved. Let us know if you have thoughts about the straw-poll effort (the future ones during the runoff or the prior ones during the primary), or if you have any other awesome ideas to help keep America great!
The candidates in the one-pager are placed in a randomly-selected ballot-order for each of the 254 counties in Texas; our one-pager above is for Wood County in Texas specifically — not Ohio… not West Virginia either — and it only includes candidates running as Republicans, plus only if they are in contested runoff races. If you need another county’s ballot-order, you can see the full ballot-list (select 2026 + republican primary or republican runoff + name of county). Texas Secretary of State is now contracting with Civix for their software; the old links to their old software no longer function. Texas Secretary of State has a list of helpful 2026 election-links, including a poll-watcher’s instruction manual (these can be appointed by any candidate on the ballot or by the county chair of a political party to help ensure honest elections) and other useful election-law links.
Our congratulations and our thanks to the Republicans in contested races that avoided the need for a runoff by garnering greater than 50% during the primary, and thus will be the Republican party champions on the November general election ballot:
| Position Sought | Republican Nominee |
| Governor | Greg Abbott |
| Lt. Governor | Dan Patrick |
| Comptroller | Don Huffines |
| Agri. Commissioner | Nate Sheets |
| Ct. Crim. App. #9 | John Messinger |
| St. Brd. of Edu. #9 | Kason Huddleston |
| St. Rep. HD 5 | Cole Hefner |
| Crim. Distr. Attorney | Angela Albers |
| Cty. Treasurer | Matthew Prather |
| Cty. Commissioner #4 | Russell Acker |
| J. P. #2 | Janae Holland |
| J. P. #3 | Jerry E. Parker (pending canvass) |
| Constable #2 (unexp.) | Jeremy Ragsdale (pending canvass) |
Last but not least, our congratulations and our thanks to the unopposed nominees-elect during the March 3rd primary, who will be the Republican party champions on the November general election ballot:
| Position Sought | Republican Nominee |
| Land Commissioner | Dawn Buckingham |
| Supreme Ct #1 | Jimmy Blacklock |
| Supreme Ct #2 | James P. Sullivan |
| Supreme Ct #7 | Kyle Hawkins |
| Supreme Ct #8 | Brett Busby |
| Ct. Crim App. #4 | Kevin Patrick Yeary |
| State Senator, SD 1 | Bryan Hughes |
| 15th Ct. App. #1 | Scott Brister |
| 15th Ct. App. #2 | Scott K. Field |
| 15th Ct. App. #3 | April Farris |
| 12th Ct. App. #1 | Brian Hoyle |
| 6th Ct. App. #3 | Charles Van Cleef |
| 12th Ct. App. #3 | Michael Davis |
| County Judge | Kevin White |
| District Clerk | Suzy Richards Wright |
| County Clerk | Kelley Robinson Price |
| Cty Commish #2 | Jerry Gaskill |
| J.P. #1 | Tony Gilbreath |
| J.P. #4 | Jody Paul Hettich |
Why should you vote in the upcoming March 7, 2028 primary? (Early voting begins Feb.22nd)
You should vote in a primary election because it’s your shot to pick the candidates who’ll represent your views in the general election—before the options get locked in. Primaries decide who carries your party’s flag, and since turnout’s usually low (often 20% or less of registered voters), your vote packs a bigger punch than in November 2028. Skipping the primary election will hand that choice of a Republican champion to a smaller, sometimes more extreme slice of the electorate—like how Trump snagged the 2016 GOP nod with just 14 million primary votes out of 62 million total voters in the general.
It’s also where real ideological battles happen. If you care about steering your party, whether toward pragmatism, principle, or something else, primaries are your leverage. Plus, in places like our Texas House District 5, where the general election is a Republican lock, the primary is the real contest. Our current representative’s 2024 primary win over two challengers basically sealed his seat. Also note that the 2028 Republican primary will be an open seat for the Republican presidential nominee, unless the Constitution is amended to permit President Trump to run for a third term, making it especially crucial.
Not voting in the primary? You’re sitting out the whole game.
Thank you for being an informed voter, and thank you for being a Republican!
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