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James Talarico

Texas state representative for District 50; in the Texas House since November 19, 2018. Campaign affiliation: Democratic.

Voter guide

Background, stated goals, record, and money

Goals come from the campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filings it covers in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

James Talarico

Background

  • Texas state representative since November 19, 2018, when he was sworn in after the special election of November 6, 2018 for the unexpired term of Larry Gonzales; the Legislative Reference Library records him in District 52 for the 85th to 87th Legislatures and in District 50, in Travis County, for the 88th and 89th.
  • His campaign describes him as an eighth-generation Texan, a former middle-school teacher on the west side of San Antonio and a Presbyterian seminarian; he sat on the House Public Education Committee in each of the four full terms the library records, and is vice chair of two subcommittees in the 89th.

What they say they want to do

  • Make an anti-corruption package the first legislation he pursues, banning super PACs and corporate PACs, banning partisan gerrymandering, and banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks.
  • Let every American buy into Medicare at any age, cap out-of-pocket drug costs and regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
  • Pass comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border and widens legal entry, and bar immigration agents from wearing masks or refusing to identify themselves.
  • Reject federal private-school voucher programmes and establish universal pre-kindergarten for three- and four-year-olds.

What the official record shows

  • First-named author of HB 25 of the 88th Legislature, the wholesale prescription drug importation act, with 117 coauthors and Senator Kolkhorst as its Senate sponsor; it took effect September 1, 2023.
  • One of the two House sponsors of SB 827 of the 87th Legislature, authored by Senator Kolkhorst, which bars a health plan from charging an enrollee more than $25 per prescription for a 30-day supply of insulin; it took effect September 1, 2021.
  • First-named House sponsor of SB 1145 of the 88th Legislature, the local-option property-tax exemption for child-care facilities, and author of its identical House companion HB 3621; the act was to take effect January 1, 2024 if the voters approved SJR 64.
  • Across the 86th to 89th Legislatures and their called sessions Texas Legislature Online records 299 measures he authored or joint-authored, 29 of which took effect and 10 of those with him as the first-named author, and 17 he sponsored or joint-sponsored as the House sponsor of a Senate bill, 9 of which took effect and 5 of those with him named first. A further 169 measures list him as a coauthor.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Leadership PACs 29 committees$147,000
Labor organization PACs 19 committees$83,000
Hybrid PACs 13 committees$58,500
Other PACs (no organization type recorded) 6 committees$25,308
Committees listed without an FEC id in the filing 16 committees$17,350
Other candidates' committees 6 committees$9,500
Membership organization PACs 3 committees$7,750

Source: Federal Election Commission

Itemized receipts from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee. The rows sum to $348,408.24, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions; the summary records no party contributions at all. There is no corporation-connected row and no trade-association row because the filing itemizes no contribution from a committee the FEC records under either type. The unclassified rows are where that check is weakest: six committees the FEC carries without an organization type, and sixteen state or local committees the filing lists without an FEC id. Not in the table: $2,594,220.00 of transfers from other authorized committees on the FEC summary, which are not itemized receipts from political committees, and four memo entries totalling $13,500.00 recording contributions earmarked through a conduit, which the report already counts elsewhere.

Words and record

What they say, and what the record shows

Each card gets one label from a fixed list and states its own limit.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign's health-care page says he passed two measures on drug costs in the Texas Legislature, one capping insulin copayments at $25 a month and one letting Texas import prescription drugs from Canada.

What the record shows ·

Both became law in Texas: he was first author of the drug import act and the second of two House sponsors of the Senate's $25 insulin cap bill.

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What they say

His campaign's health-care page says he passed two measures on drug costs in the Texas Legislature, one capping insulin copayments at $25 a month and one letting Texas import prescription drugs from Canada.

“So when I got elected, I passed bills that capped insulin copays at $25 a month and allowed Texas to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada at a fraction of what they cost in the U.S. due to price gouging by Big Pharma.”

What the record shows ·

Both measures are law and the figures are exact. HB 25 of the 88th Legislature, the wholesale prescription drug importation act, lists him as the first of five authors, with 117 coauthors and Senator Kolkhorst as its Senate sponsor; it took effect September 1, 2023, and Texas Legislature Online indexes it under CANADA. On insulin, SB 827 of the 87th Legislature took effect September 1, 2021, and its enrolled text bars a health plan from imposing a cost-sharing requirement where "the total amount the enrollee is required to pay exceeds $25 per prescription for a 30-day supply", which is the cap he describes. On that bill the Author field names Senator Kolkhorst and fourteen joint authors, and the House Sponsor field names two members, Lucio III and Talarico, in that order.

Limit: The word doing the work is "passed", and it holds differently on the two bills. On the importation act he is the first-named author of a House bill that became law. On the insulin cap he is the second of the two House sponsors of a Senate bill someone else authored; unlike the single-name Sponsor field on a federal bill, the Texas record can and does name more than one sponsor, so it is able to record a co-lead and here it records him second. Neither bill is his alone, and both carry large bipartisan coauthor lists. Whether the importation programme has begun operating, and what either law has done to prices, are questions this card does not assess.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His own account says he passed a bill cutting property taxes for child-care centres.

What the record shows ·

He was the first-named House sponsor of a 2023 act letting each county or city exempt child care centers. It cuts no tax by itself, and the voter approval it needed isn't confirmed here.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

His own account says he passed a bill cutting property taxes for child-care centres.

“Childcare is now more expensive than college. In the Legislature, I passed a bill to cut property taxes for childcare centers, allowing small businesses like Green Space Nature Preschool to cut costs for working families. In the Senate, I’ll keep fighting for our tiny Texans. 🌱”

What the record shows ·

SB 1145 of the 88th Legislature created a local-option exemption from property taxation, by a county or a municipality, of all or part of the appraised value of real property used to operate a child-care facility. Senator West authored it; the House Sponsor field names five members and he is the first of them. Its identical House companion, HB 3621, is his own bill. Its last action, on May 29, 2023, reads "E See remarks for effective date", and the remarks record that the act takes effect January 1, 2024 but only if the voters approve SJR 64; whether they did is not established by any source this desk cites.

Limit: He is the first-named House sponsor of the act and the author of the identical House companion, which did not itself pass, so "I passed a bill" is borne out on the record's own fields. Two bounds. The exemption is local option: it cuts no tax by itself, and each county or city decides whether to adopt it, which this card does not check for any jurisdiction. And the act depended on a constitutional amendment, SJR 64, that needed the voters' approval; whether it reached the ballot or was approved is not established by any source this desk cites. The post carries no link and no video and nothing outside its text was read.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign's corruption page makes a claim about his own funding and dates it to his first race.

What the record shows ·

His Senate campaign's filings through June 2026 show no money from committees the FEC classes as corporate or trade groups; his state races were not checked.

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What they say

His campaign's corruption page makes a claim about his own funding and dates it to his first race.

“That’s why I’ve never taken a dime of corporate PAC money”

What the record shows ·

His Senate committee's filings through June 30, 2026 itemize $348,408.24 of receipts from political committees, and not one of those committees is recorded by the FEC under the organization type Corporation or the type Trade Association. What the money is instead, on the FEC's own classification, is $147,000.00 from 29 leadership PACs, $83,000.00 from 19 labor-organization PACs, $58,500.00 from 13 hybrid PACs, $9,500.00 from 6 other candidates' committees, $7,750.00 from 3 membership-organization PACs, $25,308.24 from 6 committees the FEC carries without an organization type, and $17,350.00 from 16 committees the filing lists without an FEC id at all. The FEC summary records no party-committee contribution to the committee.

What the filings show

No itemized contribution from a corporation-connected or trade-association PAC, against $43,500.00 from nine such committees itemized by the Republican candidate's committee over the same cycle.

Amounts are what the filings record, grouped by the FEC's own committee types. They are not a measure of a candidate's independence, and no contribution here is placed beside any position as its cause.

Limit: On the FEC's own classification the filing bears the claim out for this committee and this cycle: no itemized contribution from a committee the FEC records as connected to a corporation. The check is only as fine as that classification, and two rows are where it is weakest. Six committees, holding $25,308.24, are carried by the FEC with no organization type, and sixteen, holding $17,350.00, are state or local committees the filing lists without an FEC id, so the FEC classifies them not at all. The claim is dated to his first Texas House race in 2017 and this check covers only his federal committee's 2025-2026 filings; his Texas state filings are a separate jurisdiction and were not read. Unitemized receipts are not in this check at all.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign's corruption page republishes his post of the day of the vote, which states what the vote was and what it did.

What the record shows ·

He voted for the bipartisan impeachment in May 2023; the vote suspended the attorney general rather than removing him, and the Senate later acquitted.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

His campaign's corruption page republishes his post of the day of the vote, which states what the vote was and what it did.

“This may be the most consequential vote I’ll cast as a member of the Texas Legislature. I—along with a bipartisan majority of my colleagues—just voted to impeach our corrupt Attorney General. Ken Paxton is hereby removed from office.”

What the record shows ·

The first two sentences are exact. The House adopted H.R. 2377 on May 27, 2023 by 121 yeas to 23 nays with 2 present and not voting (Record 2191), he is recorded among the yeas, and the majority was bipartisan on the record's own arithmetic: of the 121 yeas 61 were Democrats and 60 were Republicans, and all 23 nays were Republicans, in a chamber the Journal accounts for as 85 Republicans and 64 Democrats. The third sentence is not borne out. Impeachment by the House did not remove him; it suspended him pending trial, and the office's own record says so in the only words it uses for it: the attorney general's opinion index records John Scott as provisional attorney general from May 31 to July 14, 2023 and Angela Colmenero from July 14 to September 16, 2023, in each case "Pursuant to article 15, section 5 of the Texas Constitution", the provision the Senate's judgment also cites. Removal required conviction by the Senate. The presiding officer stated on the record that conviction on one article removes him and that 21 votes were needed; on September 16, 2023 the Senate acquitted on all 16 articles it tried, no article drawing more than 14 yeas, dismissed the four held in abeyance, and the judgment reinstated him. He has held the office since. That Senate was Republican-held too: 31 members, 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats, with Senator Angela Paxton not among the thirty whose votes the record carries, and on every article that drew 14 yeas those yeas were the chamber's 12 Democrats and 2 Republicans while all 16 nays were Republicans.

Limit: The claim he makes about his own record is borne out exactly: he voted to impeach, and the majority was bipartisan by the roll call's own count. One clause of the post, "Ken Paxton is hereby removed from office", is not a claim about his record at all but about the respondent's status, and it is worth setting beside what the record shows. The vote suspended rather than removed: the attorney general was out of the office for 108 days while two other people held it, and removal is the penalty a conviction imposes, which the Senate declined. He posted this on the day of the House vote, months before that acquittal. What the record shows the vote did is suspend, not remove. The check read the source the campaign itself cites, which is the post as the campaign republishes it today on its own issues page, the House Journal for that day, the Senate's record of proceedings and judgment, and the attorney general's own opinion index, which is where the office states who held it and under what authority. What the check cannot see is what he understood at the moment he posted, and the Senate had not yet voted; this desk takes no view on that, and the point of carrying the card is that the sentence is still published on the campaign's own site three years after the acquittal. The Texas Constitution's own text was read only as the official records quote it, because the state's statutes site would not serve the article to an automated reader. Both chambers here were Republican-held and both party splits are given above.

Issues in this record

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Costs and the economyHealth careImmigration and the borderGovernment accountabilityEnergy and the environmentEducation

Evidence timeline

Dated records, with sources attached.

  1. race event

    Final ballot certification

    The Texas Secretary of State's final ballot certification for the November 3, 2026 general election, signed by the Deputy Secretary of State on August 28, 2026, lists three candidates for United States Senator: Ken Paxton (Republican), James Talarico (Democratic) and Ted Brown (Libertarian), in that order, which is the ballot order this desk follows.

  2. finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    July Quarterly 2026, principal campaign committee TALARICO FOR TEXAS.

  3. race event

    Talarico sworn in to the Texas House

    The Legislative Reference Library records James Talarico winning the special election of November 6, 2018 for the unexpired District 52 term of Larry Gonzales, who resigned on June 7, 2018, and being sworn in on November 19, 2018.

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Sources23 source records

How we use sources

  1. Member profile for James Talaricohttps://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=5831

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Terms of service: House District 52 from November 19, 2018 for the unexpired term of Larry Gonzales, who resigned June 7, 2018, then District 52 for the 86th and 87th and District 50, in Travis County, for the 88th and 89th. Committee assignments record Public Education in the 86th, 87th, 88th and 89th, and in the 89th also House Administration, vice chair of the Public Education subcommittee on academic and career-oriented education, and vice chair of Trade, Workforce and Economic Development.

    official legislative record

    For: Current role; Background, goals, record and campaign money; Talarico sworn in to the Texas House

  2. Talarico for Texas, home pagehttps://jamestalarico.com/

    Talarico for Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The campaign site answered a plain request directly. Its own sitemaps enumerate the whole site: twenty pages and thirteen issue pages, with no news or press index among them. The home page carries his biography in the campaign's words, an eighth-generation Texan, former middle-school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, and its footer links X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  3. Issues: Public Educationhttps://jamestalarico.com/issue/public-education/

    Talarico for Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Carries his account of teaching on the west side of San Antonio, the claim that he served on the Public Education Committee in each of his four terms, his opposition to private-school vouchers, and a federal programme on reading and mathematics, teacher training, universal pre-kindergarten, special education and school meals.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  4. Issues: Corruption & Democracyhttps://jamestalarico.com/issue/corruption-democracy/

    Talarico for Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Carries his anti-corruption programme, his claim never to have taken corporate PAC money, his claim to have broken quorum twice, and his Texas record on campaign-contribution caps and an independent redistricting commission. The page also republishes ten of his own and his campaign's posts as embedded quotations, among them his post of May 27, 2023 on the impeachment vote, which is the source of the quotation this desk carries for it; the page itself is undated and the embedded post carries the date May 27, 2023.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: corporate PAC money; Government accountability: what his impeachment vote did

  5. Issues: Health Carehttps://jamestalarico.com/issue/health-care/

    Talarico for Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Carries his account of his type 1 diabetes diagnosis and the $684 he paid for a first 30-day supply of insulin, the claim about the $25 insulin cap and importation from Canada, his federal programme on Medicare buy-in and drug pricing, and a track record list naming the insulin cap, Canadian importation, surprise billing, rural hospitals and medical marijuana.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Health care: insulin costs and importing drugs from Canada

  6. Issues: Immigration & Border Securityhttps://jamestalarico.com/issue/immigration-border-security/

    Talarico for Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Carries the front-porch formulation of his border position, his federal programme on comprehensive reform, enforcement priorities, identification of immigration agents, paths to legalisation, port-of-entry technology and asylum, and a Texas record naming X-ray inspection technology at border crossings.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  7. 88(R) HB 25, wholesale importation of prescription drugshttps://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HB25

    Texas Legislature Online · Published Jun 12, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Caption: relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs in this state; authorizing a fee. Author: Talarico, first of five, followed by Frank, Burrows, Rose and Klick, with 117 coauthors. Senate sponsor: Kolkhorst, with five cosponsors. Last action 06/12/2023 E Effective on 9/1/23. The subject index carries CANADA and WHOLESALE PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION ACT. The House select committee reported it 7 ayes to 0 nays.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Health care: insulin costs and importing drugs from Canada

  8. 87(R) SB 827, cost-sharing requirements for prescription insulinhttps://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=SB827

    Texas Legislature Online · Published Jun 14, 2021 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Author: Kolkhorst, with fourteen joint authors including Senator Paxton, who is Angela Paxton of District 8 and not the candidate on this desk. Sponsor: Lucio III, then Talarico, with 95 cosponsors. Last action 06/14/2021 E Effective on 9/1/21. The Senate committee reported it 8 ayes to 0 nays.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Health care: insulin costs and importing drugs from Canada

  9. 87(R) SB 827, enrolled texthttps://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00827F.HTM

    Texas Legislature Online · Published Jun 14, 2021 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Section 1358.103(b) of the Insurance Code as added: a health benefit plan may not impose a cost-sharing provision for a formulary insulin if the total the enrollee must pay exceeds $25 per prescription for a 30-day supply, regardless of the amount or type of insulin. Section 2 applies the change to plans delivered, issued for delivery or renewed on or after January 1, 2022. Read because a caption is a title and only the enrolled text carries the figure.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Health care: insulin costs and importing drugs from Canada

  10. 88(R) SB 1145, local-option property-tax exemption for child-care facilitieshttps://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=SB1145

    Texas Legislature Online · Published May 29, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Author: West, with coauthors Blanco and Eckhardt. Sponsor: Talarico, first of five, then Button, Bernal, Julie Johnson and Goodwin. Companion: HB 3621 by Talarico, identical. Last action 05/29/2023 E See remarks for effective date; the remarks record that the act takes effect January 1, 2024 but only if SJR 64 is approved by the voters, and the page records it as enabling legislation for SJR 64.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Costs: property taxes on child-care centres

  11. Bills authored, sponsored and coauthored by Rep. James Talaricohttps://capitol.texas.gov/reports/report.aspx?LegSess=89R&ID=author&Code=A3685

    Texas Legislature Online · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Member code A3685. The author, sponsor and coauthor reports have now been requested for every session he has served, the 85th regular and first called, the 86th regular, the 87th regular and three called, the 88th regular and four called, and the 89th regular and two called. Totals across them: 299 measures authored or joint-authored, 29 with a last action recording that they took effect and 10 of those with Talarico first-named; 17 sponsored or joint-sponsored as the House sponsor of a Senate bill, 9 taking effect and 5 of those with him first-named; 169 coauthored, 32 of which took effect. A session in which he filed nothing answers with the words no bills have been authored. The coauthor reports for the 87th and 88th second called sessions were missed on the first pass and read on 2026-09-17, which is where six of the coauthorships above come from; the earlier count of 163 omitted them. Every session had to be requested rather than assumed. Pulled 2026-09-14, and the two second-called-session coauthor reports on 2026-09-17.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  12. TALARICO FOR TEXAS, itemized receipts, 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00919084&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Itemized receipts from political committees and party committees for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, read from the OpenFEC schedule A endpoint on 2026-09-14 in four date windows because the unfiltered query times out, and grouped by the recorded organization type or designation of each contributing committee. Line 11C totals $348,408.24 across 101 non-memo rows, exactly the FEC summary's other-committee contributions; line 11B returns nothing, and the summary records no party contribution. Four memo rows totalling $13,500.00 record contributions earmarked through a conduit and are excluded because the report already counts them.

    fec filing

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: corporate PAC money

  13. Post of July 28, 2026 on property taxes for child-care centreshttps://x.com/jamestalarico/status/2082206232819958140

    X · Published Jul 28, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Collected from his declared campaign account and re-read against the platform on 2026-09-14, when it came back unchanged, by the same author, at the same publication time, with a single-entry edit history. A post is the candidate's own words and is not a record of any official action; the act it describes is cited separately.

    social profile

    For: Costs: property taxes on child-care centres

  14. TALARICO FOR TEXAS, cycle totals 2026https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00919084/?cycle=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The FEC's own cycle summary through June 30, 2026: receipts $68,560,930.42, disbursements $47,012,775.34, individual contributions $65,585,741.88, other political committee contributions $348,408.24, party committee contributions $0.00, transfers from other authorized committees $2,594,220.00. Read from the OpenFEC totals endpoint on 2026-09-14 and used to reconcile the itemized table.

    fec filing

    For: Government accountability: corporate PAC money

  15. KEN PAXTON FOR SENATE, itemized receipts, 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00901918&two_year_transaction_period=2026&is_individual=false

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Itemized non-individual receipts for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026, read from the OpenFEC schedule A endpoint on 2026-09-14 and grouped by the recorded organization type or designation of each contributing committee. Line 11C contributions from other political committees total $157,500.00 across 35 non-memo rows and line 11B party contributions $62,000.00 in one, together $219,500.00, exactly the FEC summary's other-committee plus party contributions.

    fec filing

    For: Government accountability: corporate PAC money

  16. 88(R) HR 2377, articles of impeachmenthttps://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HR2377

    Texas Legislature Online · Published May 27, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Caption: impeaching Warren Kenneth Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas, and preferring articles of impeachment against him. Authors: Murr, Ann Johnson, Geren, Longoria and Spiller. Laid before the House and adopted on May 27, 2023 on record vote 2191, at Journal page 5958; reported enrolled the same day and signed in the House on May 29. The page links the Journal for that day at the page carrying the vote.

    official legislative record

    For: Government accountability: what his impeachment vote did

  17. House Journal, 88th Legislature Regular Session, 73rd day (document)

    Texas House of Representatives · Published May 27, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Saturday, May 27, 2023. At page 5958: HR 2377 was adopted by record vote 2191, 121 yeas, 23 nays, 2 present not voting, with one member absent excused and two absent. The Journal prints every name and no party. Mapped against the library's 88th House rosters the 121 yeas are 61 Democrats and 60 Republicans, the 23 nays are all Republicans, the two present-not-voting are one of each, and the 149 members accounted for are 85 Republicans and 64 Democrats. The server closes the connection part-way through this PDF; it was fetched with a resuming request until the whole 574,311 bytes arrived.

    official legislative record

    For: Government accountability: what his impeachment vote did

  18. Member search, 88th Legislature House members by partyhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/lrlhome.cfm

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Two POST searches of the member index, one for Republican and one for Democrat, each with the 88th Legislature and the House selected, returned 89 and 64 members; the rosters cover everyone who served in that legislature rather than the seats filled on one day. They were used only to give the May 27, 2023 roll call its party split: each name in the Journal was mapped onto a roster entry, the surname initials the Journal uses to separate members of the same name were resolved by hand, and the resulting party counts were required to add back to the Journal's own printed totals before being used. They do. The party value must be the full word; party=R returns a no-records answer that reads exactly like a real negative.

    official legislative record

    Member search, 88th Legislature Senate members by party

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The same two POST searches for the Senate returned 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats for the 88th Legislature. One of the 13, Molly Cook, took her seat in 2024, after the September 2023 trial, and appears in none of its roll calls; the 31 members sitting at the trial were 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats. Used only to give the Court of Impeachment's roll calls their party split, with the same requirement that the party counts add back to the printed totals.

    official legislative record

    For: Government accountability: what his impeachment vote did

  19. John Scott Opinionshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/john-scott

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The page states in the office's own words: pursuant to article 15, section 5 of the Texas Constitution, John Scott served as Provisional Attorney General from May 31, 2023 to July 14, 2023, and it carries his series JS-0001 to JS-0007. An official, non-editorial record of who held the office in that period.

    official office record

    For: Government accountability: what his impeachment vote did

  20. Angela Colmenero Opinionshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/angela-colmenero

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The page states in the office's own words: pursuant to article 15, section 5 of the Texas Constitution, Angela Colmenero served as Provisional Attorney General from July 14, 2023 to September 16, 2023, and it carries her series AC-0001 to AC-0005.

    official office record

    For: Government accountability: what his impeachment vote did

  21. Record of proceedings of the High Court of Impeachment, tenth day, and the judgment (document)

    Texas Senate · Published Sep 16, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Saturday, September 16, 2023. A verbatim transcript: each article is read, the clerk reads the ballots in a random order, and the presiding officer then confirms every member's vote by name, so each roll call appears twice and the two agree. Sixteen articles were tried and every one drew a finding of acquittal: twelve at 14 yeas to 16 nays, Article V at 13 to 17, Article IX at 12 to 18, Article VIII at 8 to 22 and Article IV at 2 to 28. Thirty votes are recorded on each; Senator Angela Paxton is not among them. The presiding officer states that conviction on one article removes him, and, on the later motion, that it is a simple 16 vote and not 21. Articles XI to XIV, held in abeyance, were dismissed 19 to 11 on Senator Birdwell's motion. The judgment is printed at the end of the same document and reinstates him the same day. The Senate journal site is a browser application whose document list comes from a separate service; this file is served directly.

    official legislative record

    For: Government accountability: what his impeachment vote did

  22. Ballot Certification Report, 2026 November General Election (document)

    Texas Secretary of State · Published Aug 28, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The final ballot certification for the November 3, 2026 general election, signed by Deputy Secretary of State Dave Nelson on August 28, 2026 under sections 142.010 and 161.008 of the Election Code. Its U. S. SENATOR block lists KEN PAXTON (REP), JAMES TALARICO (DEM) and TED BROWN (LIB), in that order, which is the ballot order this desk follows. The document is served slowly and closes the connection part-way; it was fetched with a resuming request until the whole 5,919,631 bytes arrived, because a truncated copy reads as a corrupt PDF rather than as a failed download.

    official election record

    For: Final ballot certification

  23. TALARICO FOR TEXAS, July Quarterly 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 15, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Committee C00919084, file number 1997887, beginning image 202607159890734938, the current non-superseded version. Coverage April 1 to June 30, 2026: receipts $28,271,821.27, disbursements $16,582,531.54, cash on hand $21,548,155.08, no debts owed by or to the committee.

    fec filing

    For: FEC filing snapshot