Scoring · Institutions & organizations
League of Women Voters
League of Women Voters of the United States. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
The LWV is strictly nonpartisan but advocates voter access, anti-gerrymandering, campaign-finance reform, election integrity, ranked-choice voting, and transparent government. Paxton's record is the precise opposite of the LWV agenda; Talarico's anti-corruption package matches it almost line for line, including refusing corporate PAC money since 2017 and breaking quorum twice over Texas redistricting.
Issue
Paxton
Talarico
Voting access
Hurts
Helps
Paxton: Hurts · Talarico: Helps
Anti-gerrymandering / independent redistricting
Hurts
Helps
Paxton: Hurts · Talarico: Helps
The LWV pushes independent redistricting commissions; Talarico backs a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering and broke quorum twice over Texas redistricting2, while Paxton's office is the muscle behind Texas's mid-decade redistricting.
Campaign-finance reform
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Helps
Paxton: — · Talarico: Helps
The LWV backs limits on outside money in elections; Talarico would ban super PACs and corporate PACs and has refused corporate PAC money since 20172, while Paxton has not made campaign-finance reform a Senate plank.
Election-worker protection
Hurts
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Paxton: Hurts · Talarico: —
The LWV defends election workers from intimidation and prosecution; Paxton's election-fraud unit has prosecuted local election workers and volunteers. Talarico defends election workers and aligns with the LWV here.
2020 election challenges
Hurts
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Paxton: Hurts · Talarico: —
The LWV treats good-faith acceptance of certified results as bedrock democratic norm; Paxton brought Texas v. Pennsylvania to challenge Biden's 2020 victory. Talarico accepted the certified result.
Congressional stock-trading ban
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Helps
Paxton: — · Talarico: Helps
The LWV backs a stock-trading ban as part of its good-government agenda; Talarico supports the ban2, while Paxton has not engaged on the issue at the federal level.
Term limits
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Helps
Paxton: — · Talarico: Helps
The LWV supports rotation in office as a check on entrenchment; Talarico backs congressional term limits2. Paxton has not adopted term limits as a Senate plank and is a non-factor here.
Town-hall / constituent-access requirements
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Helps
Paxton: — · Talarico: Helps
The LWV runs candidate forums and treats constituent access as core to representative government; Talarico backs town-hall requirements for members of Congress2, while Paxton is not advancing this reform.
SCOTUS / federal ethics
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Helps
Paxton: — · Talarico: Helps
The LWV's good-government framework extends to enforceable judicial ethics; Talarico backs a SCOTUS ethics code2, while Paxton has not made federal-court ethics a Senate priority.
Sources
- Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, official campaign issues page, accessed May 2026. (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)