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Carlos De La Cruz stands with the worst of MAGA #maga #texas #tx35
Carlos De La Cruz proudly touts endorsements from the worst of the worst.
State of the State: Texas Is 40th Overall. Greg Abbott and Texan Republicans in Congress Aren't Helping.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
Five Republicans Took the AI Industry's Money or Bought Its Stock. One of Them Wrote the Bill That Would End Your Town's Say.
An AI super PAC that raised $125 million exists to stop states and cities from enforcing their own AI rules. One of these Republicans wrote the bill that does the preempting, one was promised $850,000 in a race he had already won, two were buying the stock, and one was carried by $2.35 million in outside money.
Carlos De La Cruz Says He's Not an Establishment Politician. The Speaker, the Majority Leader and the Majority Whip All Wrote Him Checks.
De La Cruz ran as the outsider against a sitting state legislator. FEC filings show $195,000 from political committees — including the top three House Republican leaders, a dozen members' leadership PACs, and $21,000 from his own sister in Congress.
The AI and Crypto Industries Spent $2.1 Million Electing Carlos De La Cruz. His Own Campaign Raised Half That.
Two super PACs with deliberately vague names — one funded by an Anthropic-backed nonprofit, one by Coinbase and Ripple — put more than $2.1 million behind a first-time candidate in San Antonio. Their ads never mentioned AI or crypto. His website did.
Six Weeks After a Judge Blocked His Vaccine Rollbacks, Carlos De La Cruz Booked RFK Jr. for a Fundraiser
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was booked to headline a May 2 fundraiser for Carlos De La Cruz in San Antonio. De La Cruz called it an honor — in the state where two unvaccinated children had just died of measles.