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Texas Observer
Gus Bova

The Eternal Recurrence of Colin Allred

And so Colin Allred’s three-year journey through the wilderness of ambition ends more or less where it began.

In May 2023, the NFL player-turned-civil rights attorney announced he was leaving behind a deep-blue U.S. House district composed largely of Dallas County residents. On Tuesday night, he effectively won a deep-blue U.S. House district composed entirely of Dallas County residents. In ordinal terms, he budged an integer: from the 32nd to the 33rd.

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