Glamorous Republican and mom-of-three is booted off ballot for technicality... but she claims it's a conspiracy
Zee Wilcox said she was unfairly removed from the March primary after using the wrong filing form, and claims party insiders worked against her.
Published: 19:05 GMT, 10 January 2026 | Updated: 19:28 GMT, 10 January 2026
A Republican running for the Texas House has been declared ineligible after using the wrong candidate filing form, a move she claimed was politically motivated.
Zee Wilcox of a Southlake was ruled ineligible to run in the House District 98 race after filing with a federal form insteaZee Wilcox is one of three candidates running for House District 98 in North Texas.d of the required state paperwork.
The mom-of-three, who was one of three Republicans vying for the open seat, said she filled out her forms on December 8, the last day before the deadline.
She paid the $750 fee and had her paperwork notarized and accepted.
However, Wilcox was later notified by Tarrant County GOP Chair Tim Davis that her application did not meet legal requirements because she used a federal filing form instead of the required state version.
Davis, a lawyer elected chairman in November, emailed Wilcox directly to inform her that she was therefore ineligible to appear on the ballot.
'I've never done this before - my first time - but I assumed they'd tell me if the form was wrong when they accepted it,' Wilcox told the Star Telegram.
Emails reviewed by the Star-Telegram show Wilcox asked to correct the mistake but received no response, leading her to accuse Tarrant County Republicans of orchestrating her removal.
Wilcox, a mom-of-three and small business owner, has accused local GOP leaders of orchestrating her removal from the ballot
Wilcox sent Davis a cease-and-desist letter accusing him of spreading false information about her candidacy. Zee Wilcox is pictured with her husband Brian
The mom of three moved to the United States and became a citizen after growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, according to her campaign biography
Wilcox has since appealed the decision and contacted the Texas Secretary of State, which told her it lacks the authority to overturn a county party ruling.
She later sent Davis a cease-and-desist letter accusing him of spreading false or misleading information about her candidacy, a claim he dismissed as baseless.
'I have a hard time believing this is happening in this country,' she said. 'These elections are now selections. They're not elections, and I wasn't selected by them, so therefore I need to be forcibly removed.'
Davis rejected those claims, claiming the issue was straightforward and rooted in election law, not politics.
'Given the matter, I will keep the details to a minimum, but the issue is pretty simple.