Election Day is the start of the job, not the end of it. After Texans sent pro-Second Amendment majorities to Austin, Gun Owners of America Texas stayed in the Capitol through the 89th Legislative Session—tracking nearly 200 firearm bills, blocking every anti-gun proposal, and pushing the agenda members demanded. The result was real, measurable wins that protect the rights of law-abiding Texans. Now, with early voting beginning October 19 and Election Day on November 3, GOA Texas is highlighting the candidates who have earned full endorsement because they reject every gun-control bill, sponsor pro-gun reforms, and defend rights with zero compromise.

For nearly five decades, Gun Owners of America has been the no-compromise voice of America’s gun owners. While others cut deals and celebrate half-measures, GOA has delivered constitutional carry in record numbers, armed pilots after 9/11, stopped gun confiscation during Hurricane Katrina, killed San Francisco’s handgun ban, defeated ATF overreach in court, and blocked federal gun control at every turn. With more than two million members, activists, and supporters, GOA fights every day in Congress, state legislatures, and the courts without apology or retreat. In Texas, that fight is personal and ongoing.

Real Wins from the 89th Legislature

The session produced concrete protections. House Bill 3053 bans cities and counties from using taxpayer money on firearm “buyback” programs aimed at taking guns out of civilian hands. Senate Bill 706 requires Texas to recognize handgun licenses issued by other states. Senate Bill 1596 removes short-barreled firearms from the state’s prohibited-weapons list. Senate Bill 1362 bars recognition and enforcement of extreme-risk protective orders and makes serving those orders a crime unless authorized by Texas law. Those measures took effect September 1, 2025.

Other priorities advanced but fell short of the governor’s desk. House Bill 170, providing civil immunity for justified defenders, cleared the House and stalled in the Senate. House Bill 2458, clarifying self-defense against brandishing prosecutions, passed the House 119–18. House Bill 2879, protecting tenants who use justified force in their homes, reached the House calendar. These unfinished pieces of the agenda show both the progress made and the work that remains.

The threats are greater than ever: billionaire-funded confiscation schemes, red-flag laws, universal background checks, and Big Tech censorship of pro-gun voices. That is why GOA’s Political Victory Fund works year-round to identify, vet, and endorse only the strongest, most principled candidates—no “F-rated” Republicans, no squishy moderates, only proven fighters. The candidates highlighted in this mailing earned GOA’s full endorsement because they have pledged to reject every gun-control bill, sponsor pro-gun reforms, and defend rights without compromise.

Champions Who Stand on the Record

Ken Paxton’s record as Texas Attorney General shows a consistent willingness to treat federal firearms rules as a fight over the limits of agency power. When the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved to reclassify pistols equipped with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles, Paxton objected that the standard was subjective and would turn millions of lawful owners into potential federal offenders. Texas later joined Gun Owners of America in court against the ATF brace rule, arguing the agency had rewritten the law without Congress. That rule was later vacated. Paxton’s office has used the same approach on other federal gun restrictions. By contrast, James Talarico’s House journal shows votes against House Bill 1927 (constitutional carry), House Bill 2837 (the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act that barred special credit-card codes to track firearm purchases), and Senate Bill 706 (license reciprocity). For voters measuring the Second Amendment by past actions, the contrast is already on the record.

Nate Sheets brings the same clarity to the Agriculture Commissioner race. In rural Texas, food and freedom grow from the same ground. Farmers and ranchers feed the state and the country because they own their land, manage their herds, and decide how to work their soil. Private property makes that possible. The same communities pass on an outdoor heritage through FFA and 4-H, where responsibility, animal husbandry, and land stewardship sit beside firearms education and competitive shooting. Youth clay shooting programs draw students who also show livestock; on the range they learn safety, focus, and respect. Habitat work, hunting, and shooting sports reinforce one another. Texas families who raise our food are often the same families who coach a 4-H shooting team, host a hunt, or fund a local clay range. They protect the Second Amendment because they use firearms for work, sport, and conservation. Sheets’ issues list includes Texas-First Trade, Clean Food for Texas, Border Security, Grow Rural Economies, Food Security Defense, Healthy School Meals, Defend 2nd Amendment, and Right To Life.

Dr. Dawn Buckingham, a ninth-generation Texan, surgeon, small-business owner, former volunteer firefighter, and avid hunter, sits at the intersection of private property, public land, and the state’s outdoor tradition as Land Commissioner. The General Land Office manages nearly one million acres dedicated to the Permanent School Fund across more than 125 counties, much of it leased for grazing, recreation, and hunting. Lease income helps fund public schools; for hunters the same acres provide access to deer, quail, and other game, and in some cases shooting ranges. At the Alamo, which the Legislature placed under the General Land Office, she removed restrictions that had infringed on the lawful exercise of Second Amendment rights. Hunting in Texas happens mostly on private land by agreement between landowners and sportsmen. State leases extend that opportunity without turning working land into a preserve closed to use. Protecting those leases protects habitat, property rights, and a heritage passed down through families, 4-H, and weekend ranges. Buckingham’s case is simple: the land that feeds the school fund also carries Texas’s hunting tradition. Guarding that land, and the right to use a firearm on it lawfully, is the same work.

The Broader Slate

GOA Texas endorsements extend across the ballot. Statewide, that includes Greg Abbott for Governor, Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor, Mayes Middleton for Attorney General, Don Huffines for Comptroller, Dawn Buckingham for Land Commissioner, Nate Sheets for Agriculture Commissioner, and Bo French for Railroad Commissioner, along with judicial candidates such as Jimmy Blacklock for Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and others for the courts of criminal appeals and intermediate courts. In Congress the list includes Nathaniel Moran, Steve Toth, Keith Self, Pat Fallon, Lance Gooden, Alex Mealer, Randy Weber, Tom Self, Mark Teixeira, Brandon Herrera, Beth Van Duyne, Brandon Gill, Michael Cloud, Jace Yarbrough, and Brian Babin. The Texas Senate and House lists run long—Bob Hall, Trent Ashby, Leigh Wambsganss, Brent Hagenbuch, Chris Spencer, Brent Money, Cole Hefner, Melissa Beckett, Brian Harrison, Janis Holt, Terri Leo Wilson, Cody Vasut, AJ Louderback, Todd Hunter, Katrina Pierson, Wes Virdell, Hillary Hickland, Pat Curry, Richard Hayes, Mike Olcott, Keresa Richardson, Shelley Luther, Ben Bumgarner, Andy Hopper, Mitch Little, Carrie Isaac, Holly Jeffreys, David Lowe, Cheryl Bean, Armin Mizani, Marc LaHood, Mark Dorazio, and more—each marked as a GOA Texas-endorsed candidate.

These are the people who have shown, or pledged, that they will treat “shall not be infringed” as the clear standard it is. Representative Mitch Little, for example, is trusted to support and defend the Second Amendment because the phrase means exactly that, and he will keep fighting for it in Austin. Similar commitments appear across the slate: expanding constitutional carry, asserting Texas sovereignty, ending federal overreach, defending property rights, and standing with law enforcement while rejecting gun-control experiments.

The Fight Ahead

The 90th Legislature convenes in January 2027. GOA Texas will be back for 18-to-20-year-old carry, rights restoration for nonviolent felons, civil immunity, an end to additional gun-free zones, apartment and tenant firearm protections, brandishing reform, and self-defense pretrial adjudication. You voted. We went to work. We are not done.

H.L. “Bill” Richardson, founder of Gun Owners of America, put the principle plainly: “Never compromise principles for short-term political gain.” Your vote and your support will decide whether freedom wins. Stand with GOA. Vote every GOA-endorsed candidate. Together, we will keep the Second Amendment intact for our children and grandchildren.

Early voting runs October 19–30. Election Day is November 3. Visit texas.gunowners.org elections for the full list and details. The Second Amendment is not a suggestion. It is the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and it shall not be infringed. No compromise. Only victory.