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Democratic Texas state representative seeking the U.S. Senate seat, running against Republican incumbent Ken Paxton.
Democratic Senate nominees in Texas, Michigan, Maine and Ohio out-raised their Republican rivals by $104.5 million from July through September. The GOP's main Senate super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, raised a record $272.9 million in the same quarter, CNBC reported.
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Elon Musk gave the Senate Leadership Fund $158 million in September through a Texas PAC created to support Ken Paxton, CNBC reported. Crypto Briefing said a Kalshi market had Democrat James Talarico at 62.5% to win, relatively stable over the past week.
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Elon Musk gave more than $276 million to Republican groups since July, making him the biggest known donor of the 2026 midterms, CNBC and SCMP reported. CNBC put his known 2025-26 federal giving at roughly $366 million, 26% above the roughly $290 million he spent in 2024.
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Republicans hold $1 billion to Democrats' $579 million, but Trump-aligned groups booking in September sometimes pay over five times earlier rates. At those prices the cash lead buys less airtime than its size suggests, though the record cannot say how much less nationally.
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Senate candidates in Alaska and Michigan are pitching diesel export curbs and gas tax holidays to an electorate where 47% rank cost of living first. The oil and electricity costs behind those pledges look set to outlast November, whoever wins.
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Donald Trump opens a 32-day midterm campaign in Texas and Oklahoma as AP-NORC puts approval of his handling of the economy at a record-low 26%. He is spending his first days on ground his party once held easily, so investors should treat a change in control of Congress on Nov. 3 as a live outcome.
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Guidance issued in January told broadcasters that late-night and daytime talk shows are not necessarily exempt from equal time, and since then two networks have kept the same Senate candidate off air.
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More than $3.4 billion is chasing a chamber that decides who staffs the administration and who fills open court seats for the rest of the term, and the spending so far shows the two sides pricing the same seats very differently.
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Flock says its license plate readers operate in 6,000 communities in every state but Alaska, and candidates in both parties are now pledging bans, funding pauses and warrant rules, which turns a signed municipal contract into an election-year liability.
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Ken Paxton and James Talarico disagree about tax breaks and local control, but they ask for the same thing on water. That moves cooling design out of the campaign column and into the siting spec.
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Paxton's four-point plan and Talarico's veto-and-water platform share no instrument, only a direction. The escape route both leave open is the off-grid power plant.
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