Everybody counts if they'll hold that oath. This page fills in as we find the real, sourced answer — never with a guess. A blank means we haven't found it yet, not that it doesn't matter.
The idea behind this page, in the words that started it:
"Everybody counts in this site if they will hold that Oath of Office — what if somebody did not know they could vote for them because I want it to show we the people what we can do when we can see?"
So this page doesn't tell you who to vote for. It shows you who's actually running, what they've actually said and filed, and the same numbers for everyone in the race — side by side, sourced, no label on top of it. You draw the conclusion. We just make sure you can see it.
Real, fixed dates from Texas's own election authority — not a reminder we made up, a countdown against the actual deadline. Counting down in your own device's clock, local time.
Source: Texas Secretary of State, Important Election Dates. Texas has no same-day registration — the Oct 5 deadline is firm.
Five official, government-run links. Not us, not a party, not a PAC — the actual agencies that run elections.
Six boxes. Check them as you actually do them — not as a promise, a record. Nothing here is saved on our end; the whole checklist lives in the link itself, so it only goes where you send it.
Check a few boxes, then copy the link — the checked state travels with the URL itself, so pasting it to someone else, or bookmarking it, brings the same boxes back checked. The download is a plain text file, nothing sent anywhere.
This is not a routine incumbent re-election. The sitting senator lost his own party's nomination.
John Cornyn, a four-term Republican incumbent tracked on this site's own Map of Decision-Makers, sought renomination and lost it. He is the first incumbent U.S. senator from Texas to lose renomination since 1970. That's not this site's characterization — it's the plain fact of the vote count below.
Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Party | Current / former office | 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ken Paxton | Republican | Attorney General of Texas | 1st in March primary (41%); won May 26 runoff, 63.8% (888,196 votes) over Cornyn |
| James Talarico | Democratic | Texas State Representative | Won nomination, 52.4% (1,216,412 votes) |
| John Cornyn (R, incumbent) took 36.2% (503,438 votes) in the runoff — not the nominee, but the sitting senator until this term ends. Jasmine Crockett (D), already tracked on the Money Board as U.S. Representative for TX-30, ran second in the Democratic primary at 46.2% (1,071,900 votes) — a 6.2-point race, not a blowout. | |||
| Campaign money for this Senate race — not yet pulled from this cycle's filings. Logged, not built yet. | |||
Sources: 2026 U.S. Senate election in Texas, Wikipedia, citing Texas Secretary of State canvass data · Texas Secretary of State, Election Night Results portal (official) · Houston Public Media, runoff results, 2026-05-26
A real thread, not a coincidence: Ken Paxton is the same Ken Paxton whose Senate campaign received $5,000 from Pete Ricketts' leadership PAC on June 17, 2026 — already sourced on this site in Three Checks, One Day. That page made no claim about what the contribution meant, only what the filing showed. It still doesn't. A dollar figure from June and a primary win in May are two separate, dated facts about the same person — a sequence, not a motive.
An incumbent seeking another term, and a Democratic primary that wasn't close to unanimous.
Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Party | Current / former office | March 3, 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Abbott Incumbent |
Republican | Governor of Texas (2015–present) | Won nomination, 81.8% (1,764,924 votes) |
| Gina Hinojosa | Democratic | Texas State Representative, District 49 (Austin) | Won nomination, 58.5% (1,289,576 votes) |
| Jenn Mack Raphoon | Independent | — not yet found | — running independent, no primary |
| Campaign money for this race — not yet pulled. Statewide Texas races file with the Texas Ethics Commission, not the FEC. Logged, not built yet. | |||
Sources: 2026 Texas gubernatorial election, Wikipedia, citing Texas Secretary of State canvass data · Texas Secretary of State, Election Night Results portal (official)
Still blank, on purpose: every dollar figure for both races above, and Jenn Mack Raphoon's background. Not built yet. Check back, or if you find it first with a source, that's homework too.
In the meantime: this site already tracks real, sourced money for Texas's federal delegation currently in office — a different set of people (the sitting House and Senate members) than the 2026 nominees above, so the two aren't mixed together here. See who's #PAC_FUNDED and who's #HIGH_PAC_SHARE → Or meet the whole federal delegation directly on the map → — all 38 House seats, both current senators, real attendance and PAC data.
Beta. Ten states built so far. Every number here is dated and linked to where it came from. A blank means we haven't found the real answer yet — we don't fill it with a guess to make the page look finished.
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