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Government accountability

In short

Paxton's campaign pledges to end what it calls the weaponization of government. Talarico's campaign would ban super PACs, corporate PACs and stock trading by members of Congress. Brown's campaign would make Congress approve every executive order and end qualified immunity for police. On the record, Paxton's office says he secured over $1 billion from Meta; through June 2026, Talarico's Senate filings show no corporate PAC money, and Brown's show no political or party committee money.

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Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Ken Paxton

His campaign's issues page treats accountability as ending what it calls the weaponization of government and draining the swamp, alongside President Trump's legislative priorities, and separately as standing against Republicans it calls RINOs. It proposes no ethics, disclosure, term-limit or stock-trading measure. What his own account posts instead are actions of the office he heads: settlements, investigations and suits, including a settlement of over $1 billion with Meta in August 2026.

James Talarico

His campaign makes this the first thing he says he would legislate: an anti-corruption package banning super PACs and corporate PACs, banning partisan gerrymandering through independent commissions, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, banning congressional stock trading, term limits of six House terms and two Senate terms, required annual town halls, an end to presidential pardons, and Supreme Court term limits with a binding code of conduct.

Ted Brown

His campaign's accountability material is about executive power and the courts: require congressional approval of every executive order and emergency declaration before it takes effect, sunset all emergency authorities, protect habeas corpus, abolish civil asset forfeiture, end mandatory minimum sentences, require judges to tell jurors they may judge the law, and end qualified immunity for police officers.

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Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. Occurred Sep 10, 2026

    campaign position

    Ken Paxton: record does not settle this

    His office publishes no docket or count of its lawsuits, and this desk did not read federal court dockets, so the number has not been checked.

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    His campaign's issues page and its biography page both give a number for the suits he brought against the Biden administration. The Office of the Attorney General publishes no docket and no ledger of the suits it has filed. Its newsroom is the only list it offers and it is a paginated index of press releases, ten to a page, which returned page one unchanged whether a search term or a larger page size was requested, so it cannot be filtered to suits against one administration and is not a count of filings in any case. The office's own biography carries two related numbers and neither is this one: it says he filed 27 lawsuits against the Obama administration during a two-year stretch, and that he has "obtained an injunction or other winning ruling in more than 75 percent of the cases he's brought against the federal government". The one countable ledger the office does publish is its opinion series, which counts written opinions and not suits. His own account of the litigation is on his campaign account in general terms: "When the Corrupt Biden Administration came for us, I took them to court and I won." Why there is no verdict: Suits by Texas against the federal government plainly exist, and the office's own biography, cited here, describes them, so there is nothing missing from the record in the way "not comparable" would mean. What is missing is a count. The office publishes no docket and no ledger of its filings, and its newsroom is a paginated press-release index that cannot be filtered to one administration and would not be a count of filings if it could. Every label on the methodology page would therefore say something untrue about why this claim is not judged, so this card carries none. Limit: What would settle it is a docket: a list of cases filed by the State of Texas against federal defendants over a stated period, from the courts rather than from the office's press releases. This desk did not read federal court dockets, and it is recording that it did not, rather than counting press releases and calling the result a check. Nothing here says the claim is wrong, and nothing here says it is right.

  2. Occurred Aug 28, 2026

    campaign position

    Ted Brown: Not comparable yet

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

  3. Occurred Aug 26, 2026

    official action

    Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

    His office's August 2026 release says he secured over $1 billion from Meta and, earlier, $1.4 billion; the court filings were not read.

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    His campaign account says he secured a settlement of $1 billion with Meta in the week before the post, and separately that he secured $1.4 billion from the same company in 2024 over personal data. The office's own release of August 26, 2026 says it: "Attorney General Ken Paxton secured over $1 billion as part of a historic settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) to protect Texas children online." The same release records the earlier figure he cites and a third: it calls this "the third settlement worth over $1 billion that Attorney General Paxton has secured from Big Tech companies" and states that he previously secured a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta over facial-recognition data and a $1.375 billion settlement with Google. It also records what the settlement requires of the company beyond money, including age assurance, a daily two-hour limit for teenage users and notifications disabled by default during school hours. This is official action by the office he heads, and it is a settlement, not a vote, a sponsorship or a cosponsorship. Limit: Both figures he gives are in his office's own release, and the release is the office's account of its own work rather than a court record: this desk did not read the settlement agreement, any court filing, or any docket. What kind of action this was matters for how it is read here. A settlement is an exercise of the attorney general's litigating authority, not a recorded vote or a sponsorship, so it cannot be set beside a roll call the way a legislator's record can. Whether Texas has received any of the money, and whether the safeguards have been put in place, are questions about administration that this card does not assess.

  4. Occurred Jun 30, 2026

    official action

    James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

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

  5. Occurred Jun 30, 2026

    official action

    Ted Brown: Matches stated record claim

    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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    The banner at the top of every part of his campaign site makes a claim about his funding. 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. 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.

  6. Occurred Sep 16, 2023

    official action

    Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

    The Republican-held House impeached him in 2023, suspending him for 108 days; the Republican-held Senate acquitted him on all 16 articles it tried. The motive behind it is not judged here.

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    His campaign biography says the political establishment has repeatedly tried to silence him and that he never yielded to it; his issues page puts the same claim as a politically motivated investigation of him and of President Trump. Both chambers acted on him in 2023 and both were Republican-held. On May 27, 2023 the Texas House adopted H.R. 2377, impeaching him and preferring 20 articles, by 121 yeas to 23 nays with 2 present and not voting (Record 2191); the Journal accounts for 149 members, 85 Republicans and 64 Democrats, and of the 121 yeas 60 were Republicans and 61 Democrats, while all 23 nays were Republicans. He was then out of the office: the attorney general's own opinion index records John Scott serving 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 Senate tried 16 of the 20 articles and acquitted on every one on September 16, 2023. The presiding officer stated on the record that conviction on a single article would remove him and that the threshold was 21 votes; no article drew more than 14. The Senate then had 31 members, 19 Republicans and 12 Democrats, and 30 votes were recorded on each article; Senator Angela Paxton, the respondent's wife, is not among the members whose votes the record carries. On each of the twelve articles that drew 14 yeas those yeas were the chamber's 12 Democrats and 2 Republicans and all 16 nays were Republicans; Article IV drew 2 yeas to 28 nays, Article VIII 8 to 22, Article IX 12 to 18 and Article V 13 to 17. The four articles held in abeyance, XI to XIV, were dismissed 19 to 11 on Senator Birdwell's motion, and the judgment records that "A dismissal of these articles of impeachment does not constitute an acquittal of any charge contained in the articles of impeachment". The judgment reinstated him the same day and he holds the office now. Limit: What the record bears out is the checkable part of the sentence: formal proceedings were brought against him, they kept him out of the office for the 108 days between May 31 and September 16, 2023, he contested them rather than resigning, and they ended in acquittal on every article tried. The record calls that a suspension, not a removal, and this desk uses the same word on both cards that touch it. What no record can settle is the rest of the sentence, whether the proceedings were corrupt or were an attempt to silence him. That is a claim about motive and this site does not assess motive, in either direction. Two things are stated here so the record is not read as an argument: the chamber that brought the articles and the chamber that acquitted were both Republican-held, and the party split of each vote is given above. The dismissal of the four remaining articles is carried in the words of the judgment because the judgment itself says a dismissal is not an acquittal. This desk read the trial rules only as the record of proceedings quotes them, and did not read the articles' underlying allegations or any evidence.

  7. Occurred Sep 16, 2023

    official action

    James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

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

  8. Occurred Jan 13, 2015

    official action

    Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

    He served in the Texas House from 2003 to 2013 and the Senate from 2013 to 2015; the ranking as one of the most conservative lawmakers was not checked.

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    His campaign biography sums up his time in the Legislature in one sentence. The service half is exact. The Legislative Reference Library records him in House District 70 from January 14, 2003 to January 8, 2013, in the 78th, 79th, 80th, 81st and 82nd Legislatures, and in Senate District 8 from January 8, 2013 to January 13, 2015, in the 83rd, where a footnote records that he drew a two-year term in the January 23, 2013 drawing. What he did there is countable too: the library's bill search records 280 bills and resolutions with him as author across those six legislatures and their called sessions, 46 of which carry a last action recording that they took effect, and a further 37 he carried as the other chamber's sponsor, 25 of which took effect. The ranking half is not in any official record. It is an assessment by organisations outside the Legislature, and no Texas legislative source scores a member. Limit: The label attaches to the half a record can settle: he served in both chambers, for the districts and across the years the sentence implies, and the legislative record of that service is substantial. The other half, that he was consistently ranked among the most conservative lawmakers, is a third-party rating and this desk checked no rating publication, so it is neither confirmed nor doubted here. Counts of authored bills are as the library records them and include resolutions; a bill that took effect is not necessarily one he carried alone.

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Sources26 source records

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  1. The Fight Is Now. Paxton's All In For Texas.https://www.kenpaxton.com/issues

    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; Ken Paxton: record does not settle this; Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

  2. Post of August 31, 2026 on the Meta settlementhttps://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2094448530563702809

    X · Published Aug 31, 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 official action it describes is cited separately.

    social profile

    For: Ken Paxton: campaign position; Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

  3. Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Over $1 Billion from Meta in Historic Settlement that Protects Texas Kids Onlinehttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-over-1-billion-meta-historic-settlement-protects-texas-kids

    Office of the Attorney General of Texas · Published Aug 26, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The office's release on the settlement: over $1 billion to the State of Texas, plus stricter age assurance, a daily two-hour limit for teenage users, notifications disabled by default during school hours, likes and reactions hidden by default and a nighttime access mode. It calls this the third settlement worth over $1 billion the office has secured from a technology company and names the other two, $1.4 billion from Meta over facial-recognition data and $1.375 billion from Google. It records a trial against TikTok scheduled for the autumn of 2026. The release is the office's account of its own work, not a court record.

    official office record

    For: Ken Paxton: campaign position; Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

  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: James Talarico: campaign position; James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  5. 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: Ted Brown: campaign position; Ted Brown: Not comparable yet; Ted Brown: Matches stated record claim

  6. Built For This Fighthttps://www.kenpaxton.com/about

    Ken Paxton for Senate · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    The campaign biography. It carries the claim of over 100 suits against the Biden administration, the account of the opioid and Big Tech litigation, the description of the establishment having tried to silence him, his degrees from Baylor and the University of Virginia, fourteen years in his own law firm in McKinney, and the sentence on his service in the Texas House and Senate.

    candidate statement

    For: Ken Paxton: record does not settle this; Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

  7. News Releaseshttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases

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

    The office's only public list of its own actions, paginated ten releases to a page. It ignores a full-text search parameter and a page-size parameter, returning the first page either way, so it cannot be filtered or enlarged by an automated reader. The first page on 2026-09-14 ran from the TikTok liability verdict of September 10, 2026 back to a Houston County sentence of August 18, 2026, and included the Meta settlement, an Amazon suit, investigations of an insurer and of avocado-oil labelling, and settlements on synthetic dyes in cereals. Cited for what the office has published and for the fact that it publishes no docket or count of suits filed.

    official office record

    For: Ken Paxton: record does not settle this

  8. About the Attorney Generalhttps://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/about-office

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

    The office's own biography of the officeholder: 51st attorney general, elected November 4, 2014, sworn in January 5, 2015, re-elected 2018 and 2022; more than 4,000 employees in 38 divisions and 117 offices; 27 lawsuits against the Obama administration in a two-year stretch, and an injunction or other winning ruling in more than 75 percent of cases brought against the federal government. The page is dated in its own content: its collections figure is for fiscal year 2020 and its litigation examples end before 2021. The address www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/about-office/attorney-general-ken-paxton, which an earlier pass recorded as answering HTTP 402, answered HTTP 404 on 2026-09-14; this page is where the biography is served.

    official office record

    For: Ken Paxton: record does not settle this

  9. 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: Ken Paxton: record does not settle this; Ted Brown: Not comparable yet

  10. Post of September 10, 2026 on suing the previous federal administrationhttps://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2097858631161057557

    X · Published Sep 10, 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 post carries a link this desk did not follow.

    social profile

    For: Ken Paxton: record does not settle this

  11. 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

    Member search, 88th Legislature House members by party

    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: Ted Brown: Not comparable yet; Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim; James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  12. 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: Ted Brown: Not comparable yet

  13. 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: Ted Brown: Not comparable yet

  14. Post of August 31, 2026 on the 2024 Meta privacy settlementhttps://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/2094553570234282264

    X · Published Aug 31, 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 post carries a link this desk did not follow.

    social profile

    For: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

  15. 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: James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  16. 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: James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  17. 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: Ted Brown: Matches stated record claim

  18. 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: Ted Brown: Matches stated record claim

  19. 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: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim; James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  20. 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: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim; James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  21. 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: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim; James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  22. 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: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim; James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  23. 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: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim; James Talarico: Matches stated record claim

  24. Member profile for Ken Paxtonhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=5556

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    Terms of service: House District 70 for the 78th to 82nd Legislatures, January 14, 2003 to January 8, 2013, home city McKinney in Collin County; Senate District 8 for the 83rd, January 8, 2013 to January 13, 2015, covering Collin and Dallas counties, with a footnote recording that he drew a two-year term in the drawing of January 23, 2013. The profile's biographical section lists him as Texas Attorney General from 2015.

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    For: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

  25. Legislative Archive System bill search, Ken Paxton as authorhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legis/billsearch/searchresults.cfm?authors=Paxton_Ken:AU

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    280 distinct bills and resolutions with Ken Paxton as author, across the 78th to 83rd Legislatures and their called sessions; he is the first-named author on every one. 46 carry a last action recording that they took effect, one of them as a placeholder effective date. The result count in the page header is rendered in the browser and is empty in the served page, so the rows were counted instead. Pulled 2026-09-14.

    official legislative record

    For: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

  26. Legislative Archive System bill search, Ken Paxton as sponsorhttps://lrl.texas.gov/legis/billsearch/searchresults.cfm?authors=Paxton_Ken:SP

    Legislative Reference Library of Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026

    37 bills he carried as the other chamber's sponsor, 28 of them in the 83rd Legislature, of which 25 carry a last action recording that they took effect. Pulled 2026-09-14.

    official legislative record

    For: Ken Paxton: Matches stated record claim

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