Holds no office and has not previously held elective office; the Libertarian candidate for this seat in 2024 and again in 2026. Campaign affiliation: Libertarian.
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Background, stated goals, record, and money
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 filing window and the reconciliation in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.
Ted Brown
Background
He holds no office. His campaign biography records him as born in Steubenville, Ohio in 1960, a graduate of UCLA in political science in 1984, and a self-employed independent insurance adjuster until his retirement; he and his wife live in the Wells Branch neighbourhood of Austin. Ted Brown Election Committee
His party service is long and his own site states it: he joined the Libertarian Party in 1979, chaired the Libertarian Party of California, sat on the Libertarian National Committee, and is now vice chair of the Libertarian Party of Travis County and candidate coordinator for the Libertarian Party of Texas. The FEC's candidate index records him as a Libertarian candidate for this same Senate seat in 2024. Ted Brown Election Committee, Federal Election Commission
What they say they want to do
Repeal the federal income tax and abolish the Internal Revenue Service without replacing either. Ted Brown Election Committee
Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and open an Ellis Island-style system in which people may enter at any international port after a criminal and health check. Ted Brown Election Committee
Bring every deployed American soldier home, end foreign aid, and withdraw from NATO. Ted Brown Election Committee
Abolish the federal Department of Education and replace vouchers with tuition tax credits. Ted Brown Election Committee
What the official record shows
He holds no office and has held none, so there is no legislative or executive record to draw a highlight from. A search of the Legislative Reference Library's member index, which covers every Texas legislator from the 1st Legislature to the present, returns 45 members whose surname begins Brown, and none of them is Theodore E. Brown Jr. The Office of the Attorney General's opinion index, which gives a numbered series to every attorney general since Gerald Mann in 1939, does not include him either; it does not reach further back than that, so it cannot show that nobody has held the office before then. What the official record does carry is his candidacy: the FEC's candidate index records him as a Libertarian candidate for this Senate seat in 2024 and again in 2026, and the Texas Secretary of State's final ballot certification places him on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Legislative Reference Library of Texas, Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Federal Election Commission, Texas Secretary of State
Campaign money from other committees, by type
His committee has itemized no receipt from any political committee and none from any party committee. The FEC's own cycle summary for TED BROWN ELECTION COMMITTEE through June 30, 2026 records $0.00 under both headings, so there are no rows to group: of $7,459.52 in total receipts, $5,000.00 is a contribution from the candidate himself and $2,459.52 is from individuals, $1,150.00 of it itemized. Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission
Words and record
Where statements meet the record
Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule, and states its own limit.
Ted Brown
Government accountability: a pledge to repeal rather than legislate
Not comparable yet
What they say
His campaign site states what he says he would do with the seat.
“I am not running for U.S. Senator to be a "lawmaker." I am running to repeal as many laws as I can.”
There is no comparable official action to set beside it. He has held no office: a search of the Legislative Reference Library's member index returns 45 Texas legislators whose surname begins Brown and none of them is him, and the attorney general's opinion index, which reaches back to 1939, does not include him. What the official record does carry is the candidacy itself. The FEC's candidate index records him as a Libertarian candidate for this Senate seat in 2024 and again in 2026, and the Texas Secretary of State's final ballot certification of August 28, 2026 places him on the November 3, 2026 ballot as the Libertarian candidate.
Limit: A pledge about future votes cannot be checked against a record that does not exist. He has never held office, so this desk records the pledge and the absence of any comparable action, and nothing more. That absence is not a finding about him; it is what a candidacy without office looks like in the official record.
Ted Brown
Government accountability: who is funding the campaign
Matches stated record claim
What they say
The banner at the top of every part of his campaign site makes a claim about his funding.
“This candidate is not beholden to any special interest groups or corrupt party leaders.”
The filings record no political-committee money at all. The FEC's cycle summary for TED BROWN ELECTION COMMITTEE through June 30, 2026 records $0.00 in contributions from other political committees and $0.00 from party committees, and the itemized schedules carry no such receipt to group. Of $7,459.52 in receipts for the cycle, $5,000.00 is a contribution from the candidate himself and $2,459.52 is from individuals, of which $1,150.00 is itemized and $1,309.52 is not.
No contribution from any political committee or party committee, against $219,500.00 and $348,408.24 of committee and party contributions itemized by the two major-party committees 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: The checkable part of the banner is the funding, and the filing bears it out completely for this cycle: no committee money of any kind. Two bounds sit beside it. A committee this small itemizes little, so the check has almost nothing to classify rather than a classification that came back clean; and the word "beholden" is about influence, which no filing measures and this card does not assess. His largest single receipt is his own $5,000.
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.
The FEC's candidate index gives March 6, 2024 as the first filing date for Theodore E. Brown Jr. as a Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate in Texas, and records him as a candidate for the seat in both the 2024 and the 2026 election years.