Who won
Eight Democrats won the U.S. Senate seat and Texas's top statewide executive offices. Results are unofficial until the canvass. Tap a name to see their file.
How to use this
Record: votes and statements from their years in the Texas House, each with a link and their own explanation, so nobody can call it out of context.
Promises: each one starts as "Not started." It changes only when there's a documented action: a bill filed, a vote cast, a veto, or a reversal.
Outcomes: hard numbers Texans can check, recorded when they take office in January 2027 and updated after.
The dirt file
Votes, statements, flip-flops and money, all on the public record. Filter by person, topic or source. Every item links its source and includes the official's own explanation.
Roll calls
Key votes and attendance, taken directly from the official Texas House and Senate journals. Open any entry to read the journal page and their side. Includes Trump-backed and child-safety bills, whichever way they voted. A vote against a bill isn't evidence of anything beyond that vote.
Attendance, 2019 through August 2025
This site's count of every House record vote printed in the journals. Excused absences and committee meetings are included and shown separately, because they aren't the same as skipping a vote. Other members' totals ran higher: the most was 1,591. "Contested" means a passage vote with at least 20 members on each side. In the Senate, journals list names only on some votes: on those from regular sessions, Johnson was never listed absent or excused in 3,036 roll calls, and Eckhardt was listed excused on 32 of 2,424.
Key votes
House vote shown first. Johnson and Eckhardt voted in the Senate, and the Senate tally is noted when it's been checked. Some Senate tallies are votes on taking up the bill or on the House's changes, as labeled. A missing name means that person wasn't in the chamber or that vote hasn't been checked. Special-session Senate votes aren't checked yet.
Follow the money
Who funded each official's state account, from their own filings with the Texas Ethics Commission. A contribution shows who gave, not that it bought anything.
Totals cover state campaign accounts, using each official's latest corrected reports. Talarico's U.S. Senate money is federal and is covered in his file. "Selected corporate-named PACs" is this site's own list of well-known companies, so it isn't a complete count. "Filed after the deadline" compares the earliest filing on record to its due date.
Claims check
What they said next to what Scripture says and what the record shows. Verses are quoted in full (KJV). You decide.
The national record
The party's record in the White House and in its biggest states, from government data, court rulings, official findings and fact-checks. Every item includes their side.
What things cost, president by president
Each span runs from the January a president took office to the January he left, or to the latest month, so prices overlap at the edges. Presidents don't set prices alone, and Trump's first term ended in the pandemic. Biden's term shows the steepest rise, peaking at 9.1% inflation in June 2022. These figures show what happened, not who caused it.
California and New York vs. Texas
Democrats have long run California and New York, and Republicans have long run Texas. These numbers show differences, not their causes: geography, fuel rules, cost of living and history all play a part. Texas has weak spots of its own, including the nation's highest uninsured rate, according to Goodwin.
Obama, Biden and Ilhan Omar
Accountability ledger
Democratic officials with criminal convictions, criminal charges or official findings against them, sorted by how far each case went. Being listed doesn't mean someone is guilty unless the tier says so. Accusations without a charge or official finding don't qualify.
This site covers Democrats, so this isn't a comparison between parties. Republicans have cases too, including the House Ethics probe of Rep. Tony Gonzales and Ken Paxton's 2023 impeachment. This list isn't complete, and statuses are as last checked in November 2026.
Texas's U.S. House Democrats, most liberal first
Rank among 222 House Democrats in the 119th Congress on Voteview's DW-NOMINATE left-right scale, built from roll-call votes. More negative means further left, and the party median is -0.394. It measures voting patterns, not character or quality. Members who vote against party bills from the left can look more moderate: Ocasio-Cortez ranks 148th and Omar 168th.
The blue-state record
What happens where Democrats have run the state for decades. These are measurable outcomes, not opinions. Read the fine print too: correlation isn't proof, and Texas has weak spots of its own.
Americans are voting with their feet
How to read this: each bar shows Americans who moved to that state from elsewhere in the U.S., minus those who moved out, from July 2024 to July 2025. Dark bars to the right mean more people moved in. Red bars to the left mean more moved out. International immigration isn't counted. This covers all 50 states and D.C., ranked from biggest gain to biggest loss, and it opens on the top and bottom 8. Gainers and losers include states run by both parties, and the chart doesn't show why people moved. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates.
New York lost $111 billion in income to other states, 2011–2021
Net adjusted gross income lost to interstate migration, per the National Taxpayers Union Foundation's analysis of IRS data. Over the same span, Texas gained $54 billion and Florida $196 billion.
Illinois and New Jersey: worst-funded pensions in America
Illinois pensions are 52% funded (50th of 50) with about $201B in unfunded liabilities. New Jersey is at 55%. Both have had long stretches of Democratic control.
Texas isn't spotless either
Texas pensions are 80% funded (22nd) with about $92B in unfunded liabilities, and New York's are 94% funded (6th). In 2025, North Carolina gained more domestic movers than Texas. Use honest numbers and they hold up.
Promise tracker
What they told voters they'd do. Several of these are costly, and several contradict their own past votes. Status changes only when there's a documented action.
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Outcomes
The numbers that show whether Texas is better or worse off. Baselines are recorded at swearing-in in January 2027 and updated after that.
Outcome log
Method
The rules this page follows, so nobody can wave it away.
Public record only
Votes, public statements, campaign filings, official actions. No family members, no private lives, no rumors.
Every claim sourced
Each item links its source. Sources are labeled by type. Use the filter to see only items with a mainstream news or official source.
Their side included
Every item includes the official's own explanation. If a claim falls apart once you read their side, it doesn't belong here.
Votes from the journals
Roll calls and attendance come from the official House and Senate journals. Totals are this site's own count, and the "Absent" and "Excused" labels are the journals' own.
Ethics records check
The Texas Ethics Commission's list of issued sworn complaint orders, 1992 to present, showed no order naming any of the eight when checked in November 2026. That list doesn't cover State Bar or county court records. Check the list.
Private donors
Money totals name only public figures and organizations. Private donors, home addresses and family members stay off this page, even when they appear in public filings.
Corrections welcome
If something is wrong, it gets fixed or removed, and the change is noted in the outcome log.
Sources
Every claim on this page links to one of these. Official journals, mainstream, local and conservative outlets, plus the candidates' own campaign sites.