Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Paxton's campaign says he will help bring down costs and remove rules it says were designed to hurt energy companies. Talarico's campaign backs renewable energy tax credits, making big users like AI data centers pay for grid upgrades, and money to weatherproof the Texas grid. Brown's campaign lists no energy or environment position on the pages checked.
Campaign positions
His campaign's issues page puts energy inside its fiscal section: it says the previous administration declared war on American energy and that he will help bring down costs and remove regulations it describes as designed to hurt energy companies. The page carries no separate energy or environment section and names no measure.
His campaign carries a full energy and environment section: reinstate federal tax credits and loans for renewable development, streamline permitting without weakening environmental protection, expand the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, require large users such as AI data centres to pay for the grid upgrades they need, strengthen the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, and dedicate federal money to weatherproofing the Texas grid.
No position on energy or the environment appears anywhere this desk read. His campaign site serves its whole content in one page, and that page's 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; none is about energy, electricity, the grid, climate or the environment. The words energy, grid and climate appear in none of them; environmental appears once, in the justice section, in a list of federal law whose enforcement he objects to rather than as a position on the environment. The page also carries a News Coverage index of dated outside articles about his campaign, which this desk did not search, and a Media section of interviews and a Quotes section of other people's words. His own posts were read too: the account his site links was collected in full from July 1, 2026 to the retrieval on September 14, 2026, 339 posts and replies, exhausted rather than stopped at a cap, and nothing in them states a position of his on energy or the environment.
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Ken Paxton for Senate · Reviewed Oct 12, 2026
Health-care pledge re-read October 12, 2026; no visible statement date. The campaign's whole platform, in seven sections: carrying President Trump's agenda, taking on food and pharmaceutical companies, the border, conservative principles including gun rights and transgender policy, an America-first foreign policy, fiscal restraint and energy, the case against the Democratic candidate, and support for cryptocurrency naming the CLARITY Act. It proposes no ethics, disclosure, term-limit or stock-trading measure, and the words ethics, term limits, campaign finance and disclosure appear nowhere on it.
candidate statement
For: Ken Paxton: campaign position
Talarico for Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026
Carries his federal energy programme, including renewable tax credits, permitting, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, data-centre cost allocation, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act and grid weatherproofing, and a Texas record naming an annual independent grid audit, a Texas Climate Action Act, lead in school water fountains and water infrastructure funding.
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For: James Talarico: campaign position
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: Ted Brown: campaign position
X · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026
Handle confirmed through the link in his campaign site's own Spread the Word section, which also embeds the account's timeline, read live on September 14, 2026. His candidate-controlled account is used here. Its posts and replies were collected in full for the window July 1, 2026 to September 14, 2026, 339 items across two windowed runs, the account exhausted rather than stopped at a cap; the first run stopped on a transport error and the second reached the rest. Most of that number is replies to other people rather than posts of his own: a later run of the same account over a comparable window returned 360 items of which 292 were replies, so his own posts in the period number in the dozens. Cited as the scope of the search behind the silence recorded against him. A draft enumeration of which posts the search words reached was withdrawn before publication; the posts were re-swept on 2026-09-17 and nothing in them states a position of his on energy or the environment.
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For: Ted Brown: campaign position