These ballot propositions gauge voters’ support for the issues presented. The results will guide the party’s legislative priorities for 2027, which will be decided during the Republican Party of Texas convention in June 2026.
The Texas Attorney General stands at the crossroads of law, politics, and public trust, wielding the power to defend the state’s values, challenge federal authority, and influence the lives of every living Texan and future generations.
The Texas Attorney General holds one of the most consequential roles in state government — a position that shapes legal policy, protects the public, and steers Texas through its most significant battles in the courts.
Our goal is to give the public a clear, unfiltered look at each candidate’s legal judgment, ethical grounding, and readiness to serve. The questions you’ll hear are designed to probe not just what the candidates believe, but how they think, how they reason, and how they would wield the authority entrusted to the state’s chief legal officer.
The growing Texas conservative grassroots movement MUST survive this contentious Republican Primary in order to defeat a common enemy — the Red-Green Revolution — fueled by millions in foreign money. We are Providentially here in this time and place to SAVE TEXAS. You will need your brother and sister — and they will need YOU! Don’t lose sight of that!
114th District Court Judge Austin Reeve Jackson, Federalist Society member, and Roy Maynard: Executive Editor, Associated News Service Senior Writer, Texas Public Policy Foundation; editor for The Cannon Online; writer for The Daily Signal and The Federalist.
No matter where you live in Smith County, a Justice of the Peace works for YOU!
Job Description for Justices of the Peace:
Listen carefully to the answers regarding office hours. We increasingly receive complaints from citizens across Smith County about Justice of the Peace offices being closed all week during Christmas, at noon, and/or closing before 5PM on weekdays. This is a public service job. It exists to serve the people — many of whom have their own jobs and limited hours to take off. For the two races with incumbents – JP 2 and JP 4, you decide if the current officeholder’s answer is sufficient, or if a change is needed. Also note what they say about the backlog of cases they have in their courts since COVID-19. Folks, that was FIVE years ago!
On 10/1/25, a pay increase took effect for the JPs. This increase DID NOT go through the normal Commissioners Court public budget process like all other spending requests. Instead, the JPs landed an $8,000 backdoor pay increase. The salary of a Smith County Justice of the Peace is now $92,249. Listen carefully to what the incumbents had to say about the pay raises.
The Commissioners Court should NEVER have approved an $8,000 pay raise for the JPs without public discussion of the productivity of each office and sufficient notice to the public. The incumbents should have appeared before the entire Commissioners Court (not just to the unelected budget officer and the County Judge) to make their case. Such backdoor, backroom conspiracies are — at a minimum — unethical. Commissioner Drewry tried to put the brakes on long enough for the JPs to come before the Court to make their case, but the other three Commissioners and the County Judge wouldn’t support her citizen-first transparency effort.
Incumbent – Andy Dunklin
Challenger – Shawn Scott
Current JP is retiring
– Roderick Langlinais
– Timothy McDonald
– Kyle Stowers
Incumbent – Curtis Wulf
Challenger – Sam Griffith
Texas needs Leigh Wambsganss – a proven, prepared, principled MAGA conservative in the Texas Senate. Leigh will put Texas families and small businesses first, pushing back on the Big Government culture in Austin that just keeps growing government – doling out taxpayer-funded corporate welfare while our property taxes soar!
Leigh Wambsganss has a record of defending constitutional liberties, Texas Sovereignty, gun rights, and holding state government accountable. Leigh is pro-life, pro-parental rights, and pro-Constitution. She sees the dangers facing Texas in the Islamic push for Sharia-compliant local government, cultural Marxism, the globalist agenda, and the occupation by illegal border crossers.
Unlike other candidates in this race, Leigh Wambsganss has not taken campaign funds from casino gambling interests tied to China because she sees the great threat they are to Texas. Chinese gambling interests are spending millions to buy political favor in the Texas legislature – pouring at least $1.1 million into the Huffman campaign.
MAGA Conservatives must win this seat to save Texas from dangerous outside interests. We urge you to vote for Leigh Wambsganss in the January 31 Election Day for the Special Election for State Senate District 9 and make sure your family and friends in SD 9 vote for Leigh.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Map of Senate District 9 in the Fort Worth, Texas region.
No matter where you live in Smith County, your County Commissioners Court (which includes the County Judge):
spends your property taxes and sales taxes;
is responsible for the condition of your county roads and bridges;
is responsible for maintaining all county office buildings;
is responsible for effective and efficient county budget management;
is responsible for the debt that you, your children, and grandchildren are required to pay off for the jail, the new courthouse, and the 2017 & 2021 incomplete road bond projects.
Catherine Roots
Austin Luce
CONTACTS:
Terri Hall, Founder/Executive Director
TURF & Texans for Toll-free Highways
(210) 275-0640
JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director
Grassroots America – We the People
(903) 360-2858
(AUSTIN, TEXAS — October 6, 2025) — Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom(TURF), Texans for Toll-free Highways (TTH), and Grassroots America – We the People (GAWTP) are committed to protecting the safety and sovereignty of Texas roads and highways and announce their strong support of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s emergency actions announced Friday, September 26, 2025. The new rule targeting the abuse of non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) is a bold and necessary move that prioritizes the lives and safety of American citizens.
The Department of Transportation’s decision to crack down on dangerously lax licensing procedures is long overdue. The groups share Duffy’s outrage over the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) review of state issuances of both CDLs and commercial learner’s permits (CLP) that found substantial non-compliance of drivers who live in a state or country with different standards than the state where they are licensed.
Texas is one of six states in systematic non-compliance for issuing non-domiciled CDLs along with California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Washington.
“American families should not have to worry about unqualified or unlawfully-present individuals operating 85,000-pound trucks on public roads. Texans are fed-up with policies that put political correctness over basic public safety,” noted TURF Founder and Executive Director Terri Hall.
“We applaud Secretary Duffy and the Trump administration for taking decisive action and demanding accountability from rogue states. Dangerous drivers with expired visas or no legal status should never have been licensed to begin with. This rule is a victory for safety, common sense, and the rule of law,” remarked JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director of Grassroots America.
TURF has been a vocal opponent of the cross-border trucking program since its implementation under NAFTA. Under both Democrat and Republican administrations, TURF strongly pushed back against policies that allowed unsafe or inadequately vetted foreign drivers to operate in the U.S. Despite years of advocacy, federal inaction persisted—until now.
“We have been sounding the alarm for decades,” Hall added. “We are pleased to finally see the Trump administration do something about it. This emergency rule is a long-overdue step in the right direction.”
While Texas has long been a leader in transportation, these grassroots groups believe this revelation should be a wake-up call.
“There is no room for error when it comes to public safety on our highways,” Hall continued. “Texas must show it is part of the solution—not part of the problem. We’re relieved DPS announced last week that it will no longer be issuing CDLs to non-citizens, we will be closely monitoring the situation in Texas until we are confident that all trucking companies are following the law and that unsafe licenses are revoked.”
In addition to supporting this critical regulatory reform, the groups also call on the federal government to take immediate and bold action regarding the proliferation of Level 4 and Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) (primarily commercial trucks) — vehicles operating with no human driver onboard.
TURF has long warned that fully driverless commercial trucks represent a grave national security threat, as well as a ticking time bomb for public safety:
“We are deeply concerned that while we work to close dangerous loopholes around foreign CDL holders, Big Tech is quietly replacing them with driverless trucks that are just as, if not more, dangerous,” added Hall. “If a human driver can cause a fatal crash due to negligence, what happens when there’s no driver and the system fails or gets hacked? We’ve seen the headlines — it’s not a matter of if, but when” (emphasis ours).
The groups urge President Trump to press Congress to take immediate legislative action to protect all Americans from the dangers of commercial AVs, and also call on the U.S. Department of Transportation to:
Secretary Duffy’s emergency action is a pivotal step in restoring integrity and safety to our roads. TURF urges continued vigilance and transparency—not just for CDL licensing, but for the growing and largely unregulated frontier of autonomous trucking. American lives, infrastructure, and national security must not be sacrificed in the name of automation or political expediency.
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