07/28/2026
Looking at the slate of major statewide Republican officeholders and nominees in Texas, it’s easy to think “same old, same old.”
Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick have held high office for decades. While Ken Paxton is distinguished by criminal acts and other profound corruption, it’s not new. He’s been crooked his entire career, having abused every office he’s ever held.
The other Republican major office nominees – Don Huffines for Comptroller, Mayes Middleton for AG, and Bo French for Railroad Commissioner – are all mean-spirited MAGAs. They are typical of Texas Republican nominees since 2016 when their party surrendered its Texas bona fides to wear the Trump-submissive Mar-A-Lago MAGA party brand.
But there is something unusual – probably unique in Texas history – about this group of Republican nominees. ALL of them are multi-millionaires. There’s not a live-on-a-paycheck person among them.
After an extensive search, we were unable to find an election in modern Texas history when either party nominated ONLY multi-millionaires to serve in our state’s highest offices.
So Texas isn’t just divided by politics – it’s divided by wealth. And never has a party’s leaders been more financially separated from middle class Texans.
Over the last 20 years, the gap between the ultra-wealthy and regular middle class Texans widened. Each of the Texas MAGA millionaire nominees is worth many millions of dollars. A person worth just one million dollars has over six times the wealth of a typical Texas household. So the costs for gas, groceries, housing, and healthcare that crush regular middle-class Texans are just details for MAGA multi-millionaires’ CPAs to handle.
Of course, being very rich doesn’t necessarily disqualify a state leader or make them suspect. You can even argue that personal wealth might make them less dependent on others’ money and less subject to outside influences.
Well, none of that applies to the Texas Republican multi-millionaire nominees.
They ALL Answer to Billionaires.
The Texas MAGA multi-millionaires don’t just operate with arrogance and indifference to regular Texans, they’re politically hardwired to even richer multi-BILLIONAIRES.
It’s a corrupt political dependence and level of control that goes beyond crass Pay-to-Play lobby politics to a Pay-and-Obey system where billionaires call the shots dictating major policies and political actions that affect lives and livelihoods of ordinary Texans.
