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High Prices, War in Iran, Data Centers and Water Rights

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State-Wide Offices

James Talarico - U. S. Senate

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Focuses on lowering living costs and ending preferential tax treatment for the ultra-wealthy.

Proposes suspending the federal gas tax to immediately lower prices by 18 cents per gallon.

Opposes unauthorized tariffs that penalize families and fights megadonor influence.

War in Iran

Opposes the unauthorized war in Iran, arguing military spending should be redirected into domestic schools, healthcare, and veterans' services.

Advocates for supporting Iranian democracy and preventing nuclear proliferation via diplomacy rather than troops or airstrikes.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Vows to secure robust federal funding to upgrade deficient local municipal water and sewer lines

Opposes giving AI data centers and massive refineries preferential access to groundwater over residents.

Opponent - Ken Paxton

Gina Hinojosa - Governor

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Aims to lower utility costs by ensuring high-consuming corporations pay their fair share.

Proposes drawing from the state's multi-billion dollar Rainy Day Fund to send a direct $1,500 check to every Texas household

War in Iran

Opposes the war because it worsens national deficits, drives up local fuel prices, and strains Texas household budgets.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Demands a temporary halt on all new AI and data centers until strict state regulations limit their water consumption.

Proposes prioritizing local public water rights over corporate and industrial contracts in drought-prone areas.

Opponent - Greg Abbott

Vikki Goodwin - Lieutenant Governor

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Opposes preferential tax and legal treatment for billionaires and massive corporations.

Promotes redirecting more state tax revenue to municipalities for infrastructure and school funding, reducing the need to raise local taxes.

War in Iran

Strongly opposes the war primarily due to its massive pressure on the federal deficit and state economy.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Demands that massive AI data centers undergo rigorous community and environmental review before getting water hookups.

Focuses on prioritizing state funds to fix leaking municipal and agricultural water lines across Texas.

Opponent - Dan Patrick

Nathan Johnson - Attorney General

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Plans to use the Attorney General's office to criminally investigate and prosecute corporate price gouging.

Pledges to use consumer protection divisions to push back against unlawful tariffs that act as a "tax" on families.

Anti-corruption platform targeting massive state-funded tech grants (such as broadband funding to Elon Musk’s companies) that lack proper public accountability.

War in Iran

Commits to using state regulatory oversight to protect consumers from the inflated gas and shipping prices brought on by the conflict in Iran.

Strongly condemns unauthorized executive wars, citing the broad unconstitutionality of military conflicts that bypass Congress.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Pledges to heavily fine or sue corporations and chemical refineries that illegally contaminate or deplete municipal groundwater tables.

Vows to legally defend local communities that block the construction of unregulated data facilities over local resource objections.

Opponent - Mayes Middleton

Sarah Eckhardt - Comptroller of Public Accounts

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Proposes using the Comptroller's power to initiate state contract audits, taking back funds from companies that mismanage public money.

Advocates for a major overhaul of the tax structure to strip away preferential tax loop-holes and legal shields away from billionaires and megacorporations.

Focuses on tracking state revenues to actively prevent households from shouldering hidden corporate fees.

War in Iran

Uses fiscal data to show how federal deficits driven by the conflict in Iran directly deplete the federal aid and funding models Texas depends on.

Focuses on mitigating the massive strain placed on the state's budget due to soaring fuel overhead and supply chain disruption.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Focuses on freezing state tax breaks, incentives, and grants for data centers until they prove strict water-conservation limits.

Aims to prioritize state funds directly into fixing municipal water lines rather than absorbing the expansion costs for tech monopolies.

Opponent - Don Huffines

Benjamin Flores - General Land Office Commissioner

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Vows to reform the General Land Office (GLO) to guarantee that storm-recovery and federal mitigation funds are distributed fairly to working-class communities rather than heavily favored corporate developments.

Focuses on managing the 13 million acres of state public lands efficiently to maximize revenues directed into the Permanent School Fund, lowering the local property tax burden for public education.

War in Iran

Opposed to unauthorized foreign intervention, emphasizing that federal resources swallowed by the conflict in Iran should be reallocated to expand domestic veteran benefits, including building a dedicated VA hospital in the Rio Grande Valley.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Prioritizes strict environmental management of state-owned properties and public beaches, preventing private oil, gas, and commercial developers from over-extracting or contaminating adjacent public water tables.

Opponent - Dawn Buckingham

Clayton Tucker - Agriculture Commissioner

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Opposes sweeping tariffs that drive up the baseline overhead for Texas grocery providers and families.

War in Iran

Focuses on mitigating fuel and fertilizer spikes caused by Middle East bottlenecks (like the Strait of Hormuz) by boosting local production.

Condemns the war's strain on the national agricultural economy and independent family farms.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Vows to block investment firms from purchasing public Texas aquifers to sell back to residents.

Proposes state funding for efficient irrigation, desalination, and drought-tolerant farming systems.

Opponent - Nate Sheets

Jon Rosenthal - Railroad Commissioner

High Prices/Cost Burdens

Pledges to end the "pay-to-play" pipeline of corporate utility corruption that allows energy monopolies to pass grid failure costs onto households.

Demands mandatory, enforceable infrastructure upgrades for natural gas providers to prevent price spikes during major storms.

War in Iran

Focuses on insulating Texas consumers from global fuel spikes caused by the Middle East conflict by aggressively regulating local production to stabilize domestic markets.

Data Centers/Water Rights

Vows to use the Railroad Commission's regulatory teeth to heavily penalize energy corporations that pollute municipal water tables through toxic runoff, fracking wastewater, or faulty piping.

Opponent - Bo French

State judicial candidates don’t run on political stances. Instead, focusing on fair interpretations of the law.

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State-Wide Offices - Judicial

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