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Jon Buchwald earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, San Diego, and a master's degree in business from The Wharton School. He is married

Jon has served as adjunct faculty at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business for three years. He was also a Vice President of Customer Research and Strategy at a consulting firm for over 18 years.

Jon Buchwald's campaign for U.S. House of Representatives for Texas' 24th Congressional District is his first entry into politics.

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Jon's campaign for U.S. House of Representatives for Texas' 24th Congressional District is his first entry into politics.

Promotes peer-to-peer home loans to help retirees finance home purchases directly, aiming to lower prices and retain wealth within the middle class.

Supports local entrepreneurs to build homegrown jobs and keep economic power close to the people.

Supports local entrepreneurs creating "homegrown jobs" and keeping economic power "close to the people."

Supports respecting and protecting local labor to ensure families can earn a real living and build toward their future.

Respects and wants to protect local labor to ensure families can earn a "real living and build toward their future."

Believes taxpayers get the best value when the federal government focuses on its strengths while empowering others to do what they do best.

Believes taxpayers get the best value when the federal government focuses on its strengths while "empowering others to do what they do best."

- Promotes peer-to-peer home loans to help retirees finance home purchases directly, aiming to lower prices and retain wealth within the middle class.
- Supports local entrepreneurs creating "homegrown jobs" and keeping economic power "close to the people."
- Respects and wants to protect local labor to ensure families can earn a "real living and build toward their future."
- Believes taxpayers get the best value when the federal government focuses on its strengths while "empowering others to do what they do best."

Economy

Supports Artificial Intelligence transparency laws to "protect trust, authenticity, and the integrity of public conversation."

- Supports Artificial Intelligence transparency laws to "protect trust, authenticity, and the integrity of public conversation."

Public Safety

Supports affordable healthcare to prevent individuals from having to choose between essential needs and medical care, aiming to eliminate fear of medical debt.

Supports loan forgiveness for physicians to attract them back to underserved areas and restore access to care, addressing the issue of low Medicaid reimbursement rates.

Wants loan forgiveness for physicians to attract them back to "underserved areas and restore access to care."

Supports catastrophic Medicaid to prevent families from going bankrupt due to medical emergencies.

Supports "catastrophic Medicaid" to prevent families from going bankrupt due to medical emergencies.

Supports primary care vouchers to improve access to healthcare and prevent small health issues from becoming financial crises.

Believes primary care vouchers are a way to improve access to healthcare and prevent small health issues from becoming financial crises.

- Supports affordable healthcare.
- Wants loan forgiveness for physicians to attract them back to "underserved areas and restore access to care."
- Supports "catastrophic Medicaid" to prevent families from going bankrupt due to medical emergencies.
- Believes primary care vouchers are a way to improve access to healthcare and prevent small health issues from becoming financial crises.

Healthcare

Thinks education should prepare young people to directly enter the job market by allowing students to enter a trade, launch a small business, or pursue a college degree without "being buried in debt."

Wants "fairer financing" for those who pursue higher education through simple-interest student loans, full transparency and disclosure, and a rate cap indexed to the prime rate.

- Thinks education should prepare young people to directly enter the job market by allowing students to enter a trade, launch a small business, or pursue a college degree without "being buried in debt."
- Wants "fairer financing" for those who pursue higher education through simple-interest student loans, full transparency and disclosure, and a rate cap indexed to the prime rate.

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Believes the Trump administration has created higher energy costs.

- Believes the Trump administration has created higher energy costs.

Energy & the Environment

Believes the campaign finance system is broken and aims to clean up politics and the Democratic Party by opposing cronyism and misuse of donor money.

Thinks the campaign finance system needs to be fixed.

- Thinks the campaign finance system needs to be fixed.

Voting & Elections

Believes that urgent priorities like border security deserve thoughtful execution, not chaos.

Believes priorities like border security deserve "thoughtful execution, not chaos."

Supports a streamlined immigration process that honors dignity and contributes to economic growth.

Supports a streamlined immigration process that "honors dignity" and contributes to economic growth.

Opposes the opening of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Hutchins, Texas.

- Believes priorities like border security deserve "thoughtful execution, not chaos."
- Supports a streamlined immigration process that "honors dignity" and contributes to economic growth.
- Opposes the opening of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Hutchins, Texas.

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As of January 22, 2026, Jon Buchwald’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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Believes that open updates, real metrics, and honest communication keep power in public hands.

Believes that if a program isn’t delivering expected results, it should be fixed or replaced without excuses.

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Believes citizens deserve clarity on government actions.

Kevin is from Los Alamos, New Mexico. He attended North Carolina State University. He has a master’s degree from North Carolina State University. He lives with his wife and son in North Richland Hills. He attends church.

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Kevin Burge is from Los Alamos, New Mexico. He earned a bachelor's degree in business, management, and marketing from DeVry University and a master's degree in liberal studies from North Carolina State University. He lives with his wife and son in North Richland Hills. 

Kevin is an IT security specialist. He works at a Fortune 100 manufacturing and engineering company. He previously worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency, served as the technical advisor in the White House Situation Room during President Biden’s term, and served in the U.S. Marine Corps leading a security team during deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kevin is currently an IT security specialist for a Fortune 100 manufacturing and engineering company. He previously worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency, served as the technical advisor in the White House Situation Room during President Biden’s term, and served in the U.S. Marine Corps leading a security team during deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kevin Burge's campaign for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 24th Congressional District is his first entry into politics.

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Kevin's campaign for Texas House of Representatives in District 24 is his first run for public office.

Supports small businesses and aims to create jobs and economic growth in communities.

Supports small businesses and wants to create jobs and economic growth in communities.

Supports affordable housing, Medicare for All, abortion rights, humane immigration reform, tuition-free education, and an economy where billionaires do not dictate the rules.

Believes in "an economy where billionaires don't write the rules."

- Supports small businesses and wants to create jobs and economic growth in communities.
- Believes in "an economy where billionaires don't write the rules."

Supports Medicare for All and believes healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.

- Supports Medicare for All and believes healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.
- Supports abortion access.

Supports implementing taxpayer-funded public education starting at Pre-K, fixing the Federal Funding Formula, and providing fully funded higher education options, including debt cancellation for private school education.

Said, "we must implement tax payer funded public education starting at Pre-K by fixing the Federal Funding Formula and then continuing to invest in America’s future by providing our young adults fully funded public higher education options for those who qualify, be it Public University, paid internships, paid apprenticeships, or public service in exchange for educational debt cancellation for private school education."

Supports tuition-free higher education and trade schools.

- Said, "we must implement tax payer funded public education starting at Pre-K by fixing the Federal Funding Formula and then continuing to invest in America’s future by providing our young adults fully funded public higher education options for those who qualify, be it Public University, paid internships, paid apprenticeships, or public service in exchange for educational debt cancellation for private school education."
- Supports tuition-free higher education and trade schools.

For Candidate Kevin Burge on Issue energy-and-environment: Supports investing in renewable energy and sustainable practices to address climate change, which he views as a significant threat to the future.

Said, "Climate change is real, and it poses a significant threat to our future. We must invest in renewable energy and sustainable practices to protect our planet for future generations."

- Said, "Climate change is real, and it poses a significant threat to our future. We must invest in renewable energy and sustainable practices to protect our planet for future generations."

Supports the right to self-determination for Puerto Ricans, advocating for either statehood or independence.

Supports expanding the Supreme Court to one justice per federal circuit to address perceived injustices in judicial appointments.

Supports expanding the Supreme Court to one justice per federal circuit.

- Supports the right to self-determination for Puerto Ricans, advocating for either statehood or independence.
- Supports expanding the Supreme Court to one justice per federal circuit.

Supports immigration reform that treats families with dignity and humanity.

Supports immigration reform that "treats families like humans."

- Supports immigration reform that "treats families like humans."

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TJ Ware is from Fort Worth, Texas. He is a licensed and instrument-rated pilot. He and his wife have ten children together.

TJ Ware is from Fort Worth, Texas. He has a bachelor's degree in professional flight and missionary aviation from LeTourneau University, completed instrument flight training at Palm Beach State College, and earned an associate degree in photography from the Art Institute of Dallas. He also attended Tarrant County College. He lives with his wife, and they have ten children together.

TJ is a Marine Corps combat veteran and a former U.S. Department of Justice employee. He is also a licensed and instrument-rated pilot. After returning home, he founded several small businesses, including companies in construction, insurance adjusting, and information/data. 

TJ served in the United States Marine Corps. He currently works as the CEO of NTS Identification Services and as a public adjuster at Paradise Claims LLC. He serves on the board of directors for American Policyholders for Fair Insurance Claims and North Texas Special Needs Assistance Partners (SNAP). He previously owned Black Bear Lodge and worked as a national large-loss consultant at Premier Claims.

TJ previously worked for the U.S. Department of Justice.

TJ's campaign for Texas Representative in Congressional District 2 is his first run for public office.

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Supports the creation of public works projects to provide jobs and enrich the country, and believes a large-scale public transit system would be a beneficial public works project today.

Supports the creation of public works projects to provide jobs and enrich the country.

Supports increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court and implementing term limits for justices.

Said, "I have authored Truth-In-Government legislation, that will make it a crime for elected officials to knowingly and willfully lie to or deceive the American public."

Supports the Fair Housing & Anti-Monopoly Homeownership Act, which would limit corporate ownership of single-family homes in order to "restore fairness and competition in the American housing market."

Supports the Campaign Finance Reform Act, which would overturn the Citizens United decision and ban large-scale institutional money from influencing elections.

Supports the Anti-Stock Trading Act, which prohibits members of Congress from trading individual stocks while in office.

Supports the North American Revitalization and Economic Partnership Act (NAREPA), which would "reshape the economic future of the United States, Mexico, and Canada through infrastructure investment, trade modernization, labor mobility, and supply chain realignment."

Supports the North American Revitalization and Economic Partnership Act (NAREPA), which reshapes the economic future of the United States, Mexico, and Canada through infrastructure investment, trade modernization, labor mobility, and supply chain realignment.

Supports the Food Security & Civil Preparedness Act, which mandates collaboration between federal agencies and private-sector grocery suppliers to ensure stable access to food during emergencies or unrest.

Supports biometric identification and comprehensive background checks for all applicants.

Supports biometric identification and comprehensive background checks for undocumented immigrants.

Supports taxing undocumented immigrants working in the U.S.

Believes that a large-scale public transit system would be a beneficial public works project.

- Supports the creation of public works projects to provide jobs and enrich the country.
- Supports increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court and implementing term limits for justices.
- Said, "I have authored Truth-In-Government legislation, that will make it a crime for elected officials to knowingly and willfully lie to or deceive the American public."
- Supports the Fair Housing & Anti-Monopoly Homeownership Act, which would limit corporate ownership of single-family homes in order to "restore fairness and competition in the American housing market."
- Supports the Campaign Finance Reform Act, which would overturn the Citizens United decision and ban large-scale institutional money from influencing elections.
- Supports the Anti-Stock Trading Act, which prohibits members of Congress from trading individual stocks while in office.
- Supports the North American Revitalization and Economic Partnership Act (NAREPA), which reshapes the economic future of the United States, Mexico, and Canada through infrastructure investment, trade modernization, labor mobility, and supply chain realignment.
- Supports the Food Security & Civil Preparedness Act, which mandates collaboration between federal agencies and private-sector grocery suppliers to ensure stable access to food during emergencies or unrest.
- Supports biometric identification and comprehensive background checks for undocumented immigrants.
- Supports taxing undocumented immigrants working in the U.S.
- Believes that a large-scale public transit system would be a beneficial public works project.

Opposes the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the community.

Opposes the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with masks.

Said, "Tough on violent crime, focus on reducing recidivism."

- Opposes the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with masks.
- Said, "Tough on violent crime, focus on reducing recidivism."

- Supports expanding Medicaid.
- Supports access to abortion.

As of January 22, 2026, TJ Ware’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Opposes the construction of AI mega centers in populated areas due to surging energy costs and global warming.

- Opposes the construction of AI mega centers in populated areas due to surging energy costs and global warming.

Supports expanding the Supreme Court and lowering the age requirement to serve, but wants more specifics.

Supports expanding the Supreme Court and lowering the age requirement to serve.

- Supports expanding the Supreme Court and lowering the age requirement to serve.

Opposes providing aid to foreign countries, including healthcare and weapons, when there are people starving in the U.S.

Opposes providing aid to foreign countries, including healthcare and weapons, when "we have people starving within our own borders."

Believes "China and Russia aren't our friends."

Believes that "China and Russia aren't our friends."

- Opposes providing aid to foreign countries, including healthcare and weapons, when "we have people starving within our own borders."
- Believes that "China and Russia aren't our friends."

TJ Ware

As of January 22, 2026, Tj Ware’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Tj Ware

Supports the creation of public works projects to provide jobs and enrich the country, saying "a large-scale public transit system would be a great public works project, creating many jobs."

Supports increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court and term limits for justices.

Supports the North American Region Economic Partnership Act (NAREPA), which would invest in infrastructure, modernize trade, allow labor mobility, and realign supply chains.

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