Pat Dixon

His campaign website says he opposes the death penalty and would support repealing it, because the government should not have the power to make an irreversible mistake.⁸

1. Use it more often or for more crimes (for example, child rape or drug trafficking)
2. Keep it as current law allows
3. Pause executions (a moratorium)
4. Abolish it

His campaign website praises the governor's veto of a ban on hemp-derived THC products and says Texas should go further, letting adults make their own choices as long as they do not harm others.⁹

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 he personally opposes abortion but does not want politicians involved in difficult medical decisions made by patients and their doctors, and that he is unsure of the best policy in cases of rape and incest. It says he hopes abortions keep declining through persuasion and options such as adoption rather than police action.⁵

His campaign website says the state should not turn away so many of the students who applied for its education savings account program, and that ideally every child would receive the same amount of money to use at any school.^10,11

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 Texas should not pay to attract AI data centers, and that he does not oppose data centers that pay for their impact or provide their own resources.^12,13

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 opposes the state's tax exemptions and other incentives used to attract data centers and other large companies, saying growth should pay for itself.^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 property taxes fund local governments, questions promises to eliminate them without naming spending cuts, and says he favors reforming the appraisal system where possible while respecting local control over tax policy.¹⁴

His campaign website says that as governor he would look for specific state spending cuts first, rather than cuts across the board, and use the savings to lower taxes.^14,15

1. Cut state spending and return the savings through tax cuts or rebates
2. Hold spending near current levels
3. Spend more on state services such as schools and health care

His campaign website says that once state spending is reduced, the state should lower its sales tax rate to return money to taxpayers.¹⁵

1. Lower sales tax rates or stop taxing necessities such as groceries
2. Keep current sales taxes
3. Raise sales taxes or apply them to more goods and services, to replace other taxes or fund state programs

His campaign website says he would support letting Texas cities use other voting systems, naming approval voting as his favorite and saying he also supports ranked-choice voting.¹⁶

1. Use ranked-choice voting in more elections
2. Let each state or city decide
3. Ban ranked-choice voting

His campaign website calls for nonpartisan redistricting, such as maps drawn by software to be compact and fair, and says that if a president asked him to redraw five-year-old districts in the president's favor, he would say no.¹⁷

His campaign website says the state needs to know that people registering to vote have residency and legal status, notes that some legal residents lack passports or driver's licenses, and suggests adding photos or other biometrics to voter registration cards.⁴

His campaign website says that in a crisis such as COVID, taking away people's liberty and livelihoods is the last thing he would consider, and that elected officials who imposed mandates and closures should be held accountable.¹⁸

His campaign website says red flag laws raise due process concerns, while asking whether the state must wait for violence when there is evidence that someone plans an attack.¹⁹

His campaign website says immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility that Texas can cooperate with, but that he would refuse to take part if it meant harming the life, liberty or property of Texans.²⁰

His campaign website says buying people's private data without their consent should be illegal, and it proposes limits on government camera surveillance, including a warrant to reconstruct a person's movements over time.²¹

His campaign website says risks from AI are best handled by market competition and by laws that give people recourse for harms, with lawmakers filling gaps in existing law, rather than starting with licenses and permits meant to prevent harm in advance.^12,22