James Talarico

His campaign website says he would work to undo the effects of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, including by banning super PACs and corporate PACs.⁹

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

His campaign website says he supports a nationwide ban on partisan gerrymandering, with independent commissions drawing district lines.⁹

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

His campaign website says he supports banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks.⁹

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

His campaign website says he supports limiting members of Congress to six two-year terms in the House and two six-year terms in the Senate.⁹

1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
3. No term limits

His campaign website says he supports passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.⁹

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

His campaign website says he supports term limits for Supreme Court justices.⁹

1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
2. Keep lifetime appointments

His campaign website says he supports a binding code of conduct for Supreme Court justices, including required rules on recusals, financial disclosures and gifts.⁹

His campaign website says he supports passing the Do No Harm Act, which it describes as protecting religious liberty and preventing religious discrimination.¹⁰

His campaign website says he would narrow the broad legal immunity that protects social media companies and require regular reviews of their algorithms.¹¹

1. Limit platforms' power to remove or hide lawful posts, for example by tying their legal protection to treating all viewpoints equally
2. Keep current law, letting platforms set their own rules
3. Make platforms more legally responsible for harmful content, such as posts their algorithms promote

His campaign website says billionaires should pay higher taxes on their income and capital gains, and it calls for closing loopholes that let them build up wealth that is never taxed.¹²

His campaign website says he supports raising the corporate tax rate.¹²

1. Raise it, for example to 25% or 28%, or back to the 35% top rate in place before 2018
2. Keep it at 21%
3. Lower it below 21% (for example, 15% for companies that make products in the US)

His campaign website says he would end the carried interest tax break and roll back other tax breaks that it says let some of the largest corporations pay no federal income tax.^12,13

1. Expand breaks for investment, research and hiring, such as larger research credits for small businesses
2. Keep current business tax breaks
3. Cut back many of these breaks and use the money for lower tax rates, deficit reduction or other priorities

His campaign website says he would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, with tax credits and subsidies to help smaller businesses adjust.^12,13

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

His campaign website says he supports passing the PRO Act.¹³

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

His campaign website says he would repeal the Trump administration's tariffs.^12,13,14

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

His campaign website says he supports trade agreements with strong protections for American workers.^13,14

His campaign website says he supports clear rules for digital assets so that crypto companies follow the same rules as everyone else and consumers are protected from fraud.¹¹

His campaign website says he would cap credit card interest rates.¹²

1. Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
2. Keep current rules
3. Ease rules on how companies raise money from investors, and let more people invest in private companies
4. Ease rules further, including closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

His campaign website says he would broaden eligibility for Small Business Administration loan programs and expand support for community lenders.¹³

1. Expand SBA loans, research awards and contracting help for small businesses
2. Keep the programs near their current size
3. Shrink the SBA or close it, leaving small business lending to private lenders

His campaign website says he would remove the cap on Social Security taxes for people earning more than $400,000 a year.^12,13

1. Keep the current cap
2. Also tax earnings above a higher level, such as $250,000 or $400,000
3. Apply the tax to all earnings

His campaign website says he would increase Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices.¹²

His campaign website says he would expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit.^10,12

His campaign website says he would protect the legality of same-sex marriage.¹⁰

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

His campaign website says he would pass paid family leave legislation so workers can take time off to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.^10,13

His campaign website says he would expand access to affordable child care, invest in care for children under 3 and provide universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds.^4,10

His campaign website says he opposes cuts to SNAP and WIC and would reverse recent cuts to SNAP.^12,15

1. Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
2. Keep the program as changed in 2025
3. Tighten eligibility and work rules further

His campaign website says he would restore the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium tax credits.^12,16

His campaign website says he would let Americans of any age join Medicare and would create a public health insurance option that competes with private insurance.^12,16

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His campaign website says he would reverse the Trump administration's cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act's enhanced tax credits.^15,16

1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding

His campaign website says he opposes private school voucher programs and would keep public money in public schools.^4,17

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

His campaign website says he opposes efforts in Washington to sharply cut the U.S. Department of Education.⁴

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

His campaign website says he opposes requiring the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms and would reject policies that bring religion into public settings such as schools.^4,10

1. Require religious displays such as the Ten Commandments
2. Let schools choose to post religious texts, lead prayer or hire chaplains
3. No school-sponsored prayer or religious displays, while students may pray or share their faith on their own

His campaign website says he opposes book bans and that he blocked a proposed statewide book ban for public schools in the Texas House.¹⁰

His campaign website says he supports federal legislation to write Roe v. Wade into law.^10,16

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

His campaign website says he supports writing Roe v. Wade into federal law and opposes Texas's current abortion ban.^10,16

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

His campaign website says he supports federal legislation to protect access to contraception and IVF.^10,16

His campaign website says he would legalize and regulate marijuana for adults and clear arrest records related to marijuana use.^10,18

1. Keep recreational use against the law
2. Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
3. Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
4. Make it legal for adults to buy and use

His campaign website says law enforcement agencies should have the resources they need, along with investment in police training, oversight and accountability.¹⁸

His campaign website says he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants who have been in the country the longest and for groups such as spouses and Dreamers, with temporary work permits for some recent arrivals.¹⁹

His campaign website says immigration enforcement should focus on deporting people who commit crimes, gang members and human traffickers rather than immigrants who pose no threat to public safety.¹⁹

His campaign website says he would bar ICE agents from wearing masks or refusing to show identification.¹⁹

1. Let officers cover their faces and keep their names private
2. Require visible ID and body cameras, but allow face coverings
3. Require visible ID and body cameras, and ban most face coverings

His campaign website says he would hire more immigration judges to clear the backlog of asylum cases and screen out fraudulent claims.¹⁹

His campaign website says he would simplify the application for H-2A farmworker visas while keeping strong labor standards on them.¹⁷

His campaign website says he supports universal background checks for gun sales.¹⁸

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His campaign website says he would raise the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles with certain military-style features.¹⁸

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website says data centers and other large energy users should pay for the power infrastructure they need instead of passing those costs to consumers, and that local communities should decide whether to allow a data center.^11,20

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

His campaign website says he would bring back federal tax credits and other tools that speed up renewable energy development.²⁰

1. End the remaining clean energy credits
2. Keep the credits as the 2025 law left them
3. Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back

His campaign website says he would streamline permitting for energy projects without weakening environmental protections.²⁰

His campaign website says he would protect workers from AI surveillance on the job, require transparency and human review of automated decisions about promotions, discipline and firing, and require AI companies to follow copyright law.^11,13

1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI

His campaign website says he would give parents more control over their children's social media use and bar platforms from using algorithms to send targeted content to minors.¹¹

1. Bar children under a set age, such as 16, from having social media accounts, with age checks
2. Require safer designs and settings for minors, and parental consent for younger users
3. Leave it to parents, with no new government requirements on apps

His campaign website says he would increase federal funding to expand high-speed internet access in Texas.^11,17

His campaign website says he would ban Wall Street investors from buying up homes.¹²

His campaign website says he would repeal outdated rules that slow home construction and expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.¹²

His campaign website says he would make strengthening the Clean Air Act a priority.²⁰

1. Strengthen limits, such as tighter standards for soot and for pollution from trucks and factories
2. Keep current limits
3. Ease limits and give states more leeway, such as for pollution from wildfires or other countries

His campaign website says he would make strengthening the Clean Water Act a priority.²⁰

His campaign website says he would expand eligibility for FEMA's Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program and improve help for families after disasters.²⁰

1. Shift most disaster costs and response to states, and shrink or close FEMA
2. Keep FEMA's role, with changes to speed up aid
3. Expand FEMA's funding and role, including more help preparing before disasters

His campaign website says he would seek an end to the war with Iran that keeps Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.¹⁴

His campaign website says he would stop sales of offensive weapons to the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu while supporting defensive systems such as the Iron Dome, and would push for a two-state solution.¹⁴

His campaign website says he would deepen U.S. cooperation with NATO, the European Union and other allies.¹⁴

His campaign website says he supports steps that help the United States, Ukraine and European partners negotiate from strength to secure Ukraine's long-term independence, and that hold Russia accountable.¹⁴

His campaign website says he would fully fund the State Department, reverse the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and restore aid programs that fight famine, disease and violence.¹⁴

1. Restore or increase foreign aid, including programs cut in 2025
2. Keep foreign aid near its current level
3. Cut foreign aid further or end most of it

His campaign website says he would fully fund the VA and opposes efforts to privatize it.^15,16

1. Let veterans choose private doctors at the VA's expense whenever they prefer
2. Write wait-time and drive-time limits into law, so veterans can use private care when the VA can't meet them
3. Expand the VA's own hospitals and clinics, using private care mainly when the VA can't provide it

His campaign website says he would fill VA staffing gaps, including through pay parity for VA health care providers, and would restore positions that were eliminated.¹⁵

1. Hire more VA staff, including to replace jobs lost in 2025
2. Keep staffing near current levels
3. Cut VA staff further, especially in administrative jobs

His campaign website says he supports the Love Lives On Act so that surviving spouses of fallen service members keep their benefits if they remarry.¹⁵

1. Let all military retirees with service-connected disabilities collect both payments in full
2. Expand benefits for some groups, such as combat-injured retirees with under 20 years of service and surviving spouses who remarry
3. Keep current rules, which already pay both in full to some retirees, such as those with 20 or more years of service and a disability rating of at least 50%