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.