← Back to Texas State Senator, District 11Candidate · November 3, 2026 General Election
Dennis Paul
On the ballot for · 4-year term
Background
- Now
- Texas House of Representatives, District 129
- Work
- Professional Engineer; founder of Paul Engineering Inc., Webster, Texas
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In their own words
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“Dennis Paul is the conservative choice for Texas Senate, District 11. He will faithfully represent the values which make Texas the greatest state to live, work, and raise a family: faith in God; love for family and liberty.”
“Dennis grew up in a working-class Houston family that struggled after losing his father, so he understands how rising property taxes can threaten a family's stability. Dennis knows the pressure that Texans face with skyrocketing property. That's why he's committed to expanding compression, raising the homestead exemption, and ultimately eliminating school property taxes while keeping schools funded.”
“As the only Professional Engineer in the Legislature, he brings real technical expertise to the state's flooding and drainage challenges. He led the creation of the Gulf Coast Protection District to advance the coastal barrier system across Galveston Bay, one of Texas's most important storm mitigation projects.”
“Every Texas child has a right to a good education, every Texas teacher deserves a fair wage, and every parent has a right to make educational choices for their children.”
Where the money comes from
$152,351$152,351 in total receipts, through Jun 30, 2026 — Search the Texas Ethics Commission for Dennis Paul'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.
$460,656$460,656 reported by Friends of Dennis Paul, through Jun 30, 2026 — Texas Ethics Commission raised separately by Friends of Dennis Paul, 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 Dennis Paul.
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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