The LWV is strictly nonpartisan but advocates for voting rights, anti-gerrymandering, campaign-finance reform, election integrity, ranked-choice voting, and transparent government. Paxton challenged Biden's 2020 victory in Texas v. Pennsylvania, defended Texas voter-ID laws, supports the SAVE America Act, and his office has been the muscle behind Texas's mid-decade redistricting and election-worker prosecutions. This is the precise opposite of the LWV's stated agenda. 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. He broke quorum twice over Texas redistricting and has refused corporate PAC money since 2017.
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)