More than $62M in campaign cash flowed to Texas congressional races in 2019 — a 37% increase over last cycle

WASHINGTON — Congressional campaign coffers in Texas continue to fill up at a torrid pace — tallying more than $62 million last year — and candidates are wasting no time spending that bounty as the critical March primary approaches.

Those trends, apparent in a Dallas Morning News analysis of campaign finance data, reinforce the Lone Star State’s newfound status as a battleground.

Texas, for years, featured a U.S. House map filled mostly with sleepy, low-cost races, some even involving no challengers at all. But high-dollar skirmishes have now cropped up...