ACLU

Founded 1920, the ACLU is a civil-liberties absolutist: free speech (even for hated groups), separation of church and state, criminal-justice reform, immigrants' rights, anti-surveillance, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, against the death penalty. The ACLU is famously not a gun-control organization. Cornyn earns more ACLU credit than Paxton does on church-state separation (no Ten Commandments mandate co-sponsorship, RFMA vote provides federal marriage recognition), on free-press posture, and on absence of religious-minority-targeting litigation. He still loses on immigration enforcement, surveillance posture (FISA reauthorization), abortion, federal LGBTQ protections, and voting rights. Talarico wins on church-state separation, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, criminal-justice reform, immigration, and voting rights. He loses some ground on his gun-safety positions and on social-media content-moderation regulation, both of which raise civil-liberties concerns.