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Ted Brown

Libertarian candidate for this Senate seat in 2024 and again in 2026. Campaign affiliation: Libertarian.

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.

Ted Brown

Background

  • 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.
  • 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.

What they say they want to do

  • Repeal the federal income tax and abolish the Internal Revenue Service without replacing either.
  • 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.
  • Bring every deployed American soldier home, end foreign aid, and withdraw from NATO.
  • Abolish the federal Department of Education and replace vouchers with tuition tax credits.

What the official record shows

The Texas legislative and attorney general records checked list no service for Brown. 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.

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.

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.

Not comparable yet

What they say

His campaign site states what he says he would do with the seat.

What the record shows ·

The Texas legislative and attorney general records checked list no service for Brown. He is on the November 2026 ballot as the Libertarian candidate.

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Quotes, full record and limits

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.”

What the record shows ·

No comparable action was found in the records checked. The Texas legislative and attorney general records checked list no service for Brown. 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: No comparable action was found in the Texas legislative and attorney general records checked; the opinion index starts in 1939. This bounded search does not establish his entire office history or predict future votes.

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.

What the record shows ·

His filings through June 2026 show no money from any political or party committee; of $7,459.52 raised, $5,000 came from himself and the rest from individuals.

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Quotes, full record and limits

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.”

What the record shows ·

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.

What the filings show

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.

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 TED BROWN ELECTION COMMITTEE.

  3. race event

    Brown's first federal filing for this seat

    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.

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Sources10 source records

How we use sources

  1. BROWN, THEODORE E. JR., candidate recordhttps://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4TX00888/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    FEC candidate S4TX00888: Libertarian Party, United States Senate, Texas, challenger, status C, election years 2024 and 2026, first filing March 6, 2024. Read from the OpenFEC candidate endpoint on 2026-09-14. The FEC records party and office; it does not record a party's nomination.

    official election record

    For: Current role; Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: a pledge to repeal rather than legislate; Brown's first federal filing for this seat

  2. Texas Legislators: Past and Present, member search for the surname Brownhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/lrlhome.cfm

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The library's member index covers every Texas legislator from the 1st Legislature to the present. A search on the last name Brown, submitted as the form's own POST because the equivalent GET returns a narrow-your-search redirect and no result, returned 45 members, from Albert 'Al' Brown to Linda Harper-Brown. None of them is Theodore E. Brown Jr. Cited for the absence of any Texas legislative record for the Libertarian candidate.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: a pledge to repeal rather than legislate

  3. Opinionshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/opinions

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

    The office's own index of every attorney general's numbered opinion series. Ken Paxton, 2015 to present, KP-0001 to KP-0526, the most recent listed being KP-0526 of August 26, 2026. The same index lists John Scott, 2023, provisional attorney general, JS-0001 to JS-0007, and Angela Colmenero, 2023, provisional attorney general, AC-0001 to AC-0005. This is the only countable ledger the office publishes; it counts opinions and not lawsuits.

    official office record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: a pledge to repeal rather than legislate

  4. 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: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: a pledge to repeal rather than legislate; Final ballot certification

  5. TED BROWN ELECTION COMMITTEE, itemized receipts, 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00857623&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The same query run for this committee returns no row at all on line 11C and none on line 11B, in any window of the cycle through June 30, 2026. There is nothing to group, which is why this desk states the absence rather than printing an empty table.

    fec filing

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: who is funding the campaign

  6. TED BROWN ELECTION COMMITTEE, cycle totals 2026https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00857623/?cycle=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The FEC's own cycle summary through June 30, 2026: receipts $7,459.52, disbursements $6,376.43, cash on hand $1,150.97, individual contributions $2,459.52 of which $1,150.00 itemized and $1,309.52 unitemized, candidate contribution $5,000.00, other political committee contributions $0.00, party committee contributions $0.00. Read from the OpenFEC totals endpoint on 2026-09-14.

    fec filing

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: who is funding the campaign

  7. Ted Brown - Libertarian for U.S. Senator from Texashttps://tedbrown.org/website/index.html

    Ted Brown Election Committee · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The whole campaign site is this one served page; tedbrown.org itself is a redirect to it, and every navigation item, Home, About, Platform, Media, Quotes, Contact and Donate, is an anchor within it. Its twelve platform sections are digital privacy, taxes, immigration, foreign policy, free trade, emergency powers, gun rights, the war on drugs, justice reform, education, police reform and health care. It carries the banner claim about special interests, his biography, his party offices, and links to X and Facebook and to no other account. It also carries a News Coverage index of dated outside articles about his campaign, which this desk did not search; the Media section lists interviews and the Quotes section lists quotations from others.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Government accountability: a pledge to repeal rather than legislate; Government accountability: who is funding the campaign

  8. 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: who is funding the campaign

  9. 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: Government accountability: who is funding the campaign

  10. TED BROWN ELECTION COMMITTEE, July Quarterly 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Published Jul 4, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Committee C00857623, file number 1988042, beginning image 202607049874765347, the current non-superseded version. Coverage April 1 to June 30, 2026: receipts $1,259.52, disbursements $1,118.64, cash on hand $1,150.97, no debts owed by or to the committee.

    fec filing

    For: FEC filing snapshot