2026 Texas General Election

2026 Texas General Runoff

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James Talarico earned a bachelor’s degree in government from The University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University. He is a member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.

James is a former middle school teacher. He previously served as a Texas state representative.

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James is a former middle school teacher. 

James is currently a member of the Texas House of Representatives. He was first elected in 2018 and is currently serving his fourth term.

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Believes in government that "serves working people instead of giant corporations."

Wants to "make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes" — including by imposing a higher tax on their income and capital gains.

Supports making corporations pay more in taxes by raising the corporate tax rate, closing loopholes like carried interest, and ending other corporate tax breaks.

Plans to raise the tax on corporate stock buybacks, which "corporations use to artificially inflate their stock prices."

Seeks to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and incentivize CEOs to "pay fair wages" by creating a special tax on corporations that pay their top executives more than 250 times their median worker’s salary.

Supports protecting Medicare and Social Security by increasing contributions from high earners, removing the payroll tax cap for incomes over $400,000, and encouraging employer-sponsored pensions.

Wants to expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit—which provide tax relief to families with children and to low- and moderate-income workers—saying it "rewards hard work, offsets the cost of raising children, and can save the government money over the long-term."

Supports preventing corporate landlords from manipulating rents, limiting Wall Street purchases of housing, expanding affordable housing tax credits, reducing regulatory barriers to lower insurance costs, and promoting modular housing to speed up home construction.

Plans to protect SNAP and WIC nutrition programs, increase oversight of mergers that raise prices, remove tariffs on imported produce not grown in the U.S., and reduce barriers for new grocery providers to boost competition.

Supports expanding access to high-speed internet across Texas.

Supports using AI to benefit workers by protecting them from invasive workplace surveillance, making jobs safer and less repetitive, enforcing copyright laws for AI companies, including workers in government AI research, and ensuring transparency and human review in automated employment decisions.

- Believes in government that "serves working people instead of giant corporations."
- Wants to "make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes" — including by imposing a higher tax on their income and capital gains.
- Supports making corporations pay more in taxes by raising the corporate tax rate, closing loopholes like carried interest, and ending other corporate tax breaks.
- Plans to raise the tax on corporate stock buybacks, which "corporations use to artificially inflate their stock prices."
- Seeks to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and incentivize CEOs to "pay fair wages" by creating a special tax on corporations that pay their top executives more than 250 times their median worker’s salary.
- Supports protecting Medicare and Social Security by increasing contributions from high earners, removing the payroll tax cap for incomes over $400,000, and encouraging employer-sponsored pensions.
- Wants to expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit—which provide tax relief to families with children and to low- and moderate-income workers—saying it "rewards hard work, offsets the cost of raising children, and can save the government money over the long-term."
- Supports preventing corporate landlords from manipulating rents, limiting Wall Street purchases of housing, expanding affordable housing tax credits, reducing regulatory barriers to lower insurance costs, and promoting modular housing to speed up home construction.
- Plans to protect SNAP and WIC nutrition programs, increase oversight of mergers that raise prices, remove tariffs on imported produce not grown in the U.S., and reduce barriers for new grocery providers to boost competition.
- Supports expanding access to high-speed internet across Texas.
- Supports using AI to benefit workers by protecting them from invasive workplace surveillance, making jobs safer and less repetitive, enforcing copyright laws for AI companies, including workers in government AI research, and ensuring transparency and human review in automated employment decisions.

Economy

Supports preventing crime by investing in education, youth programs, mental health care, and substance abuse treatment.

Supports fully resourcing law enforcement at all levels, including investments in training, oversight, and accountability.

Supports expanding funding for programs that assist crime victims and survivors with legal, financial, housing, and counseling support.

Supports protecting Second Amendment rights while reducing gun violence through universal background checks, safe storage requirements around children, tougher enforcement against illegal gun trafficking, and raising the purchase age for certain semi-automatic rifles.

Supports legalizing and regulating marijuana for adults, expunging related low-level offenses, and redirecting law enforcement focus to violent crime.

Supports investing in reentry programs that provide job training, housing, and treatment to reduce repeat offenses.

- Supports preventing crime by investing in education, youth programs, mental health care, and substance abuse treatment.
- Supports fully resourcing law enforcement at all levels, including investments in training, oversight, and accountability.
- Supports expanding funding for programs that assist crime victims and survivors with legal, financial, housing, and counseling support.
- Supports protecting Second Amendment rights while reducing gun violence through universal background checks, safe storage requirements around children, tougher enforcement against illegal gun trafficking, and raising the purchase age for certain semi-automatic rifles.
- Supports legalizing and regulating marijuana for adults, expunging related low-level offenses, and redirecting law enforcement focus to violent crime.
- Supports investing in reentry programs that provide job training, housing, and treatment to reduce repeat offenses.

Public Safety

Aims to create a federal public health insurance option that "competes" with private insurance.

Wants to institute caps on out-of-pocket costs for "lifesaving drugs."

Supports increasing healthcare price transparency, expanding Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices, and regulating pharmacy benefit managers to prevent patient overcharges for prescription drug costs.

Supports regulating social media to protect children and ensure accountability, including giving parents more control, limiting targeted content for minors, requiring algorithm impact assessments, and reducing broad legal immunity for platforms, without infringing on free speech.

Supports saving rural hospitals by recruiting and retaining healthcare workers, improving Medicaid and Medicare payments, and ensuring sufficient funding for essential services and local employment.

Supports access to abortion, contraception, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).

- Aims to create a federal public health insurance option that "competes" with private insurance.
- Wants to institute caps on out-of-pocket costs for "lifesaving drugs."
- Supports increasing healthcare price transparency, expanding Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices, and regulating pharmacy benefit managers to prevent patient overcharges for prescription drug costs.
- Supports regulating social media to protect children and ensure accountability, including giving parents more control, limiting targeted content for minors, requiring algorithm impact assessments, and reducing broad legal immunity for platforms, without infringing on free speech.
- Supports saving rural hospitals by recruiting and retaining healthcare workers, improving Medicaid and Medicare payments, and ensuring sufficient funding for essential services and local employment.
- Supports access to abortion, contraception, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Healthcare

Supports improving reading and math outcomes by encouraging schools to use evidence-based approaches like phonics, early literacy programs, and intensive tutoring.

Supports hiring and training more teachers by expanding federal programs that strengthen educator preparation and help address teacher shortages.

Opposes private school voucher programs, arguing they divert funding away from public schools.

Supports universal early childhood education, including universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, expanded childcare access, and continued support for Head Start programs.

Supports protecting funding and oversight for special education to ensure students receive needed services.

Supports expanding career pathways by strengthening community college and career and technical education programs in middle and high school.

Supports student health initiatives, including expanding school meal programs and increasing access to school counselors and mental health resources.

- Supports improving reading and math outcomes by encouraging schools to use evidence-based approaches like phonics, early literacy programs, and intensive tutoring.
- Supports hiring and training more teachers by expanding federal programs that strengthen educator preparation and help address teacher shortages.
- Opposes private school voucher programs, arguing they divert funding away from public schools.
- Supports universal early childhood education, including universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, expanded childcare access, and continued support for Head Start programs.
- Supports protecting funding and oversight for special education to ensure students receive needed services.
- Supports expanding career pathways by strengthening community college and career and technical education programs in middle and high school.
- Supports student health initiatives, including expanding school meal programs and increasing access to school counselors and mental health resources.

Education

Supports requiring AI data centers to pay for their own energy infrastructure updates so those "costs aren’t passed on to consumers."

Wants to "diversify our energy sources to drive down costs."

Supports expanding the Energy Star program to help consumers choose energy-efficient products and updating the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding formula so Texas receives fair funding to help families pay utility bills.

Supports expanding water access for rural communities through low-interest loans and grants for building or upgrading water systems.

- Supports requiring AI data centers to pay for their own energy infrastructure updates so those "costs aren’t passed on to consumers."
- Wants to "diversify our energy sources to drive down costs."
- Supports expanding the Energy Star program to help consumers choose energy-efficient products and updating the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding formula so Texas receives fair funding to help families pay utility bills.
- Supports expanding water access for rural communities through low-interest loans and grants for building or upgrading water systems.

Energy & the Environment

As of July 22, 2026, James Talarico’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Voting & Elections

Supports comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens border security, expands legal immigration, and supports economic growth.

Supports focusing ICE enforcement on serious public safety and national security threats, such as violent criminals, gang members, and human traffickers.

Supports increased accountability and oversight of ICE, including identification requirements and consequences for misconduct.

Supports creating pathways to legal status or citizenship for certain long-term undocumented immigrants, including spouses and DREAMers, and temporary work permits for recent arrivals filling needed jobs.

Supports modernizing ports of entry with advanced technology to better detect drugs and other threats.

Supports reforming the asylum system by hiring more judges, reducing backlogs, preventing fraud, and speeding protection for valid claims.

Supports an employer sponsorship program to help businesses address labor shortages in key sectors like construction and agriculture while lowering costs.

Supports strengthening labor standards for guest worker visas and enforcing rules against employers who "exploit immigrants or displace American workers and suppress their wages."

- Supports comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens border security, expands legal immigration, and supports economic growth.
- Supports focusing ICE enforcement on serious public safety and national security threats, such as violent criminals, gang members, and human traffickers.
- Supports increased accountability and oversight of ICE, including identification requirements and consequences for misconduct.
- Supports creating pathways to legal status or citizenship for certain long-term undocumented immigrants, including spouses and DREAMers, and temporary work permits for recent arrivals filling needed jobs.
- Supports modernizing ports of entry with advanced technology to better detect drugs and other threats.
- Supports reforming the asylum system by hiring more judges, reducing backlogs, preventing fraud, and speeding protection for valid claims.
- Supports an employer sponsorship program to help businesses address labor shortages in key sectors like construction and agriculture while lowering costs.
- Supports strengthening labor standards for guest worker visas and enforcing rules against employers who "exploit immigrants or displace American workers and suppress their wages."

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Ken Paxton is from Minot, North Dakota. He has a bachelor 27s degree in psychology from Baylor University, a master 27s degree in business administration from Baylor University, and a law degree from the University of Virginia. He and his wife, Angela, have four children and are members of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano.

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Ken Paxton is originally from an U.S. Air Force Base in Minot, North Dakota. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in business administration from Baylor University, along with a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He lives in McKinney, has four kids, and attends Prestonwood Baptist Church.

Ken is the Attorney General of Texas. He previously served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2003 to 2013 and in the Texas State Senate from 2013 to 2015. Before taking public office, he worked as an attorney, management consultant, and in-house legal counsel for J.C. Penney Company, Inc. 

Before taking elected office, Ken was the owner of Ken Paxton Attorney at Law. He also previously worked as an attorney for Strasburger & Price and as a management consultant for a law firm.

Ken is currently the attorney general of Texas. He was first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2018 and 2022. He was previously a member of the Texas State Senate from 2013 to 2015 and a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 2003 to 2013.

Ken is currently the Texas attorney general. He was first elected in 2014 and is in his third term. He was previously a member of the Texas State Senate. He served one term from 2013 to 2015. He was also previously a member of the Texas House of Representatives. He served five terms from 2003 to 2013.

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Opposes "burdensome" government regulations on businesses.

As Texas Attorney General, demanded Costco "fully repeal its discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) practices."

Supports cutting taxes and reducing "wasteful" government spending.

- Opposes "burdensome" government regulations on businesses.
- As Texas Attorney General, demanded Costco "fully repeal its discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) practices."
- Supports cutting taxes and reducing "wasteful" government spending.

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As Texas Attorney General, created a division focused on investigating and stopping human trafficking and organized crime.

- Opposes gun control.
- As Texas Attorney General, created a division focused on investigating and stopping human trafficking and organized crime.

As Texas Attorney General, sued Pfizer for "misleading the public on the COVID-19 vaccine."

As Texas Attorney General, supported holding companies accountable for their role in the opioid crisis.

- Opposes abortion access.
- As Texas Attorney General, sued Pfizer for "misleading the public on the COVID-19 vaccine."
- As Texas Attorney General, supported holding companies accountable for their role in the opioid crisis.

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Supports all Texas schools adopting prayer and bible reading in class in accordance with Senate Bill 11.

As Texas Attorney General, filed a lawsuit that would remove federal protections for special needs students who have gender dysphoria.

Opposes allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports based on their gender identity and "woke indoctrination in our classrooms."

- Supports all Texas schools adopting prayer and bible reading in class in accordance with Senate Bill 11.
- As Texas Attorney General, filed a lawsuit that would remove federal protections for special needs students who have gender dysphoria.
- Opposes allowing transgender athletes to compete in sports based on their gender identity and "woke indoctrination in our classrooms."

As Texas Attorney General, led efforts to block the federal “Waters of the United States” rule, which expanded federal control over streams and wetlands, and the Clean Power Plan, which aimed to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

- As Texas Attorney General, led efforts to block the federal “Waters of the United States” rule, which expanded federal control over streams and wetlands, and the Clean Power Plan, which aimed to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

As an attorney, he co-sponsored and defended Texas’ Voter ID bill.

As a member of the Texas Legislature, co-sponsored and defended Texas’s Voter ID law, which requires voters to present specific forms of government-issued photo identification to vote.

As Texas Attorney General, supported a legal challenge to the 2020 presidential election results in four states.

As Texas Attorney General, opposed the Biden administration sending federal election monitors to Texas.

- As a member of the Texas Legislature, co-sponsored and defended Texas’s Voter ID law, which requires voters to present specific forms of government-issued photo identification to vote.
- As Texas Attorney General, supported a legal challenge to the 2020 presidential election results in four states.
- As Texas Attorney General, opposed the Biden administration sending federal election monitors to Texas.

Supports deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Supports deporting undocumented immigrants. 

Plans to "advance an America First foreign policy that promotes peace through strength, prioritizes our nation’s interests first and foremost, and ensures the safety of American citizens."

- Supports deporting undocumented immigrants. 
- Plans to "advance an America First foreign policy that promotes peace through strength, prioritizes our nation’s interests first and foremost, and ensures the safety of American citizens."

Texas Senate acquits state Attorney General Ken Paxton in impeachment trial

The State Bar of Texas, which regulates law licenses in Texas, sued Paxton for attempting to falsely overturn the 2020 presidential election. The charges were ultimately dismissed by the Texas Supreme Court in 2025.

Paxton was previously accused of promoting investments in a technology company without disclosing that he was being paid. The charges were later dropped after he agreed to pay restitution, complete community service, and take ethics courses, without admitting wrongdoing.

During his time as attorney general, Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives over allegations that he used his office to benefit a political donor. He was later acquitted by the Texas Senate.

- The State Bar of Texas, which regulates law licenses in Texas, sued Paxton for attempting to falsely overturn the 2020 presidential election. The charges were ultimately dismissed by the Texas Supreme Court in 2025.
- Paxton was previously accused of promoting investments in a technology company without disclosing that he was being paid. The charges were later dropped after he agreed to pay restitution, complete community service, and take ethics courses, without admitting wrongdoing.
- During his time as attorney general, Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives over allegations that he used his office to benefit a political donor. He was later acquitted by the Texas Senate.

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Candidate Bio
Ted Brown was born in 1960 in Steubenville, Ohio, of German, Greek, and Jewish ancestry. Both of his grandfathers immigrated to the U.S. Ted graduated from UCLA in 1984, earning a B.A. in political science with a concentration in Constitutional Law.

Ted Brown - Libertarian Party

Ted and his wife Laura have been married since 1984. They lived in Southern California for many years before moving to Austin, where they live in the Wells Branch neighborhood. Laura taught at Austin Community College before her retirement. They have one adult daughter named Katie, who is a fundraiser for a major university hospital.

Ted Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science, with a concentration in constitutional law, from the University of California, Los Angeles. He lives in Austin's Wells Branch neighborhood.

Candidate Bio
Ted Brown was born in 1960 in Steubenville, Ohio, of German, Greek, and Jewish ancestry. Both of his grandfathers immigrated to the U.S. Ted graduated from UCLA in 1984, earning a B.A. in political science with a concentration in Constitutional Law.

Until his recent retirement, Ted worked in the insurance industry as a self-employed independent insurance adjuster, specializing in auto, property, and general liability claims.

Ted Brown is retired after working in the insurance industry as a self-employed independent insurance adjuster specializing in auto, property, and general liability claims.

Small businesses make up 99.8% of Texas businesses. What will you do to support small businesses and promote economic growth in Texas?
I'm a strong supporter of small businesses who want to eliminate regulations, licensing and bureaucracy that stop them from getting started and succeeding. It should be easy to start a business. We also need lower taxes, free trade and the ability to hire the best people anywhere in the world.

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If elected, what will your top three priorities be during your first 90 days in office?
1. The $35 trillion national debt is unsustainable & causes inflation; massive budget cuts are needed across the board. 2. Decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. 3. Immigration reform that includes an Ellis-Island system that helps immigrants enter legally & recognizes that immigrants benefit this country and don't have high crime rates.

### Taxes

Taxes are always too high, at the federal, state, and local levels. Half of what we earn goes to taxes. I will never vote to raise taxes.

I want to combine massive spending cuts into a single package that includes the largest tax cut in American history — the total repeal of the federal income tax. The 100.6 million Americans who pay federal income tax would each see an average of $25,844 per person back in their pockets.

There are proposals to replace the income tax with a flat tax or a national sales tax. I will work to repeal the income tax, abolish the IRS, and replace them with nothing. Even without the personal income tax, the federal government would still collect the same total amount that they did 12 years ago – and the government was much too large even then.

Ted Brown - Libertarian for U.S. Senator from Texas

### Taxes

Taxes are always too high, at the federal, state, and local levels. Half of what we earn goes to taxes. I will never vote to raise taxes.

Advocates eliminating regulations, licensing, and bureaucracy for small businesses, alongside lower taxes and free trade.

Calls for across-the-board federal budget cuts, citing the national debt and inflation.

Plans to repeal the federal income tax, abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and never vote to raise taxes.

- Advocates eliminating regulations, licensing, and bureaucracy for small businesses, alongside lower taxes and free trade.
- Calls for across-the-board federal budget cuts, citing the national debt and inflation.
- Plans to repeal the federal income tax, abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and never vote to raise taxes.

#### Fourth Amendment and Data Rights

I am committed to ending government's practice of spying on everyone. I strongly defend our Fourth Amendment right to be secure in our persons, homes, property, and communications. Protection from unreasonable search and seizure should include records held by third parties. Individuals have the right to know what personal data government collects about them, to withhold consent for its collection, and to demand its deletion.

#### Age Verification and Social Media
I oppose government-mandated age limits on social media or other internet use. I oppose age verification laws that supposedly protect children from "harmful" material, but that in fact force providers to identify every user, thus violating everyone's privacy. It's the responsibility of parents, not the government, to police children's internet usage, as they already can do with parental controls and other tools.

#### Digital ID and Social Credit

I oppose digital identification requirements that integrate personal ID, medical records, banking records, biometric data, or other unique identifiers, either mandated by or for use by government. I oppose any government "social credit" systems that use technology to assess the reputation of individuals based on their behaviors, financial records, and legal compliance.

#### Internet Freedom and VPNs

I oppose any government censorship of the internet, such as blocking specific websites or preventing user access. I encourage people to find workarounds to stymie governments from censorship and blackouts. Thus, I oppose any governmental limitation on the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which can be used for privacy as well as eluding government controls.

Supports decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level.

Advocates ending government surveillance and giving people access to, control over, and deletion rights for government-collected personal data.

Opposes government-mandated social-media age limits and age-verification laws, saying parents should oversee children's internet use.

Opposes government digital-identification requirements and government social-credit systems.

Opposes government internet censorship and restrictions on virtual private networks.

- Supports decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level.
- Advocates ending government surveillance and giving people access to, control over, and deletion rights for government-collected personal data.
- Opposes government-mandated social-media age limits and age-verification laws, saying parents should oversee children's internet use.
- Opposes government digital-identification requirements and government social-credit systems.
- Opposes government internet censorship and restrictions on virtual private networks.

As of July 23, 2026, Ted Brown’s website did not contain information on this issue.

What action is needed to ensure Texas remains a national energy leader?
We need a free market in energy without subsidies or overregulation. Texas has oil and gas, wind and solar, and we need them all. We need to allow more nuclear power plants, since this is the only energy that doesn't produce carbon emissions. Nuclear is safe but feared and misunderstood.

What steps will you take to help protect Texans from major storms and help communities rebuild after a disaster?
I don't think any officeholder is capable of protecting people from storms. After a disaster, though, it should be easy to rebuild without unnecessary regulation and bureaucratic interference.

Supports an energy market that includes oil, gas, wind, and solar power without subsidies or overregulation.

Supports allowing more nuclear power plants.

Advocates easing regulations and bureaucratic barriers to rebuilding after disasters.

- Supports an energy market that includes oil, gas, wind, and solar power without subsidies or overregulation.
- Supports allowing more nuclear power plants.
- Advocates easing regulations and bureaucratic barriers to rebuilding after disasters.

ICE is so out-of-control that it can't be reformed. I believe that ICE should be abolished, the sooner the better. CBP should be limited to the border and other points of entry (like airports and seaports) and not operate inland as far as 100 miles as currently authorized. The large number of warehouses that ICE has purchased for use as detention facilities should be disposed of immediately. Existing detention facilities need to be shut down.

#### Ellis Island-Style Solution:

* End the immigration police state and abolish ICE
* No more checkpoints, raids, or family separations
* Free movement of people across international borders
* Welcome all foreigners after checking for criminal record and diseases
* Entry at any international port, not just border towns
* Work from Day One instead of welfare programs

Texas and the federal government frequently clash over how to secure the U.S.-Mexico border. What will you do to help mend this relationship?
I'm opposed to [Gov. Greg] Abbott's Operation Lone Star, since immigration is a federal issue. A big help would be to stop the need for immigrants to cross into Texas border towns and instead be allowed to enter at official checkpoints anywhere in the country with border agents to check them in.

#### America First Foreign Policy:

* Bring ALL troops home from foreign assignments
* End all foreign military interventions
* Withdraw from NATO and other entangling alliances
* End all foreign aid payments
* Vote against any military appropriations for foreign deployments

### Foreign Policy

Non-intervention and bringing all troops home

Libertarians favor a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other nations. U.S. troops should be here to protect this country, not to be stationed in foreign countries around the globe.

Opposes Operation Lone Star, saying immigration is a federal issue.

Supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, limiting Customs and Border Protection to borders and ports of entry, and closing detention facilities.

Proposes an immigration system allowing entry at international ports after criminal-record checks and disease screenings, with immediate work authorization.

Calls for bringing U.S. troops home, ending foreign military interventions and aid, and withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

- Supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, limiting Customs and Border Protection to borders and ports of entry, and closing detention facilities.
- Proposes an immigration system allowing entry at international ports after criminal-record checks and disease screenings, with immediate work authorization.
- Calls for bringing U.S. troops home, ending foreign military interventions and aid, and withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Ted Brown

- Plans to repeal the federal income tax, abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and never vote to raise taxes.

- Advocates ending government surveillance and giving people access to, control over, and deletion rights for government-collected personal data.
- Opposes government-mandated social-media age limits and age-verification laws, saying parents should oversee children's internet use.
- Opposes government digital-identification requirements and government social-credit systems.
- Opposes government internet censorship and restrictions on virtual private networks.

Tell us about the context, what you're trying to extract?

Ted Brown previously ran for U.S. Senate in 2024 and did not win.

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- The U.S. Senator is a member of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. There are a total of 100 U.S. Senators. Texas, like every other US state, has two senators. 
- U.S. senators have a great deal of power when it comes to bringing the concerns of their state to the national arena. U.S. senators can author, sponsor, amend, debate, and vote on bills that may become national law. 
- U.S. Senators have an important role in deciding who runs the federal government. They hold confirmation hearings for most presidential appointees, including new Supreme Court Justices and Presidential Cabinet Members.
- Senators can be appointed to committees that focus on particular issues. Examples include the Appropriations Committee, which handles budget planning, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is a diplomatic body that welcomes foreign delegations.
- Senators are elected to six-year terms in statewide elections. U.S. senators are paid a salary of $174,000/year.

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