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Dan Patrick
On the ballot for · 4-year term
This race is on every Texas ballot.
Currently holds this office
Background
- Now
- Lieutenant Governor of Texas
- Before
- Texas State Senator, District 7 (2007–2015). The Texas Legislative Reference Library's official member record also lists an alternate surname on file: "Goeb."
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In their own words
Quoted from Dan Patrick’s own official campaign material — what the campaign says the candidate will do. Some campaigns write about their candidate in the third person; the wording is theirs either way. These are the candidate’s claims: PlainDocket doesn’t check, rate or endorse them, and every candidate in a race is quoted the same way, from the same kind of source.
“This Legislative Session we have already passed the most conservative agenda in Texas history – including school choice, property tax relief, investing in our water infrastructure, our electric grid, banning non-citizens from voting, and returning prayer and the Ten Commandments to our public schools.”
“With the Legislative Session past the half-way point and many of our priority bills passed, I am announcing my 2026 re-election campaign. A more formal kickoff will come following the Session, but I wanted to make my intentions known and official.”
“I am pleased and honored my very first re-election endorsement came from my friend and ally President Donald J. Trump.”
“The campaign will begin soon enough, but with seven weeks still to go in the Legislative Session, my focus remains on the work to be done at the Capitol for the people of Texas.”
Where the money comes from
$300,000$300,000 in total receipts, through Jun 30, 2026 — Search the Texas Ethics Commission for Dan Patrick's filings raised by the candidate's own campaign account, through Jun 30, 2026
The filing reports a total but doesn’t break it down by source, so there is nothing to chart here.
$14,729,323$14,729,323 reported by Texans for Dan Patrick, through Jun 30, 2026 — Texas Ethics Commission raised separately by Texans for Dan Patrick, through Jun 30, 2026
Texas lets a campaign raise money through the candidate’s own account and, separately, through a committee formed to support them. The Texas Ethics Commission’s records state this committee supports this candidate — we never infer that from a name, because a committee can just as easily be organised against the person it is named after. The two figures are kept apart deliberately: money moved between the accounts is reported by both, so adding them would count it twice.
Official filing:
- This figure is the candidate's own campaign account. Any committee the Texas Ethics Commission records as supporting them is listed separately and is NOT added in — money moved between the two is reported by both, so a combined total would count it twice.
- These lines don't add up to total receipts — receipts also include transfers, loans and refunds, which aren't donations.
- Filing is periodic (semiannual, 30-day, or 8-day pre-election reports). The figure above sums every report filed for the current 2025-2026 election cycle, through the most recent period shown — it can be several months stale depending on where a candidate is in the filing cycle, and excludes activity from any earlier cycle.
- The Texas Ethics Commission and the Federal Election Commission define "total receipts" differently — Texas Ethics Commission figures should never be compared directly against a federal candidate's FEC figures.
Official records
We searched the registries below and found no record for Dan Patrick.
Checked 28 July 2026: Texas Legislature (impeachment records) · Texas Ethics Commission (final orders) · State Bar of Texas (attorney discipline) · Texas State Securities Board (enforcement orders). The same registries are searched for every candidate in a race, and each entry describes only what the record itself states — including how it ended. We publish no allegations and no news coverage.
- The Texas Ethics Commission is required by law to keep dismissed complaints, and findings it treats as technical or minor, confidential — so no result there means no publicly-issued final order, not that no complaint was ever filed.
- A State Bar profile shows public disciplinary history the Bar publishes online; older judgments are held by its disciplinary counsel and aren't in that profile.
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