The LWV is strictly nonpartisan but advocates for voting rights, anti-gerrymandering, campaign-finance reform, election integrity, ranked-choice voting, and transparent government. Cornyn earns more LWV credit than Paxton on election-integrity (his certification of the 2020 election sits in direct opposition to Paxton's Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit, which the LWV would treat as the precise practice they oppose) and on absence of mid-decade-redistricting-and-election-worker-prosecution litigation. He still loses on voting-rights enforcement (he has voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act framework), on SAVE America Act co-sponsorship, and on the broader Republican voting-access framework. Talarico's anti-corruption package — ban super PACs and corporate PACs, ban partisan gerrymandering with independent commissions, John Lewis Voting Rights Act, congressional stock-trading ban, term limits, town-hall requirements, SCOTUS ethics code — is the LWV agenda almost line for line.
Sources
- Sen. John Cornyn, official Senate website and 2026 re-election campaign issues page, accessed May 2026 (cornyn.senate.gov; johncornyn.com). (full list)
- Talarico for Texas, official campaign issues pages (taxes, education, healthcare, immigration, social media/AI, freedom-family-faith, public-safety-justice, corruption-democracy, labor-business), accessed May 2026. (full list)
- Senate Republican Whip (2013-2019); 2024 Senate Republican Leader race vs. Sen. John Thune (Cornyn lost 29-23); Republican Conference institutional record; New York Times coverage of Cornyn-Thune-Scott three-way race, November 2024. (full list)