Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Paxton's campaign says he will help finish the border wall, deport criminals who are here illegally and secure the border. Talarico's campaign backs immigration reform, enforcement aimed at criminals and traffickers, and a path to citizenship for long-settled immigrants and DREAMers. Brown's campaign would abolish ICE and let people enter at any port after a criminal record and disease check, with work allowed from day one.
Campaign positions
His campaign's issues page makes the border its own section, headed "Sovereignty Matters. Borders Must Hold." He says he will help President Trump finish the border wall, deport people he describes as criminal illegal aliens, and secure the border, and the page grounds that in his record of suing the previous federal administration over its border policies.
His campaign uses one image for its position, that the border "should have a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door", and would pass comprehensive immigration reform, focus immigration enforcement on criminals and traffickers rather than settled residents, bar immigration agents from wearing masks or refusing to identify themselves, create a path to citizenship for long-settled immigrants and DREAMers, hire more immigration judges, and deploy detection technology at ports of entry.
His campaign would abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement outright, confine Customs and Border Protection to the border and ports of entry, end interior checkpoints and detention facilities, and open what he calls an Ellis Island-style system: free movement across borders, entry at any international port after a criminal-record and communicable-disease check, and work permitted from the first day. He says a border wall would no longer have a reason to exist.
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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 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: 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