First look at your 2024 Travis County Republican Slate

With 387 filings at Texas Republican headquarters, this marks the second-highest number of filings in state Republican history!

While your local ballot won’t have nearly that many candidates for you to learn about, we wanted to introduce you to the GOP candidates appearing on ballots in Travis County. We spent several months recruiting dedicated, hard-working, and qualified candidates for these races — not just placeholders.

Filing closed on Dec. 11, and the Travis GOP did a random drawing for candidate ballot order on Dec. 21 — pulling numbers from a Christmas stocking in the spirit of the season! Below is the list of all candidates appearinng on the ballot, from President to Precinct Chairman.

President
Ron DeSantis
Chris Christie
Asa Hutchison
Donald J. Trump
David Stuckenberg
Ryan L. Binkley
Vivek Ramaswamy
Nikki Haley

U.S. Senate
Ted Cruz (i)
R.E. (Rufus) Lopez
Holland "Redd" Gibson

Congressional District 10:
Jared B. Lovelace
Michael McCaul (i)

Congressional District 17
Pete Sessions (i)
Joseph T. Langone

Congressional District 21
Chip Roy (i)

Congressional District 35:*
Michael Rodriguez
Dave Cuddy
Brandon Craig Dunn
Steven Wright
Rod Lingsch

Congressional District 37:
Jenny Garcia Sharon

Railroad Commissioner
Christi Craddick (i)
Corey Howell
Christie Clark
Petra Reyes
James "Jim" Matlock

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2
Jimmy Blacklock (i)

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 4
Brian Walker
John Devine (i)

Justice, Supreme Court, Place 6
Jane Bland (i)

Presiding Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals
Sharon Keller (i)
David J. Schenck

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 7
Barbara Parker Hervey (i)
Gina Parker

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 8
Michelle Slaughter (i)
Lee Finley

Third Court of Appeals, Place 2:
John Messinger

Texas Senate District 25
Donna Campbell (i)

Texas House District 19:
Manny Campos
Kyle Biedermann
Ellen Troxclair (i)

Texas House District 46:
Nicole “Nikki” Kosich

Texas House District 47:
Scott Firsing

Travis County District Attorney:
Daniel W. Betts

County Republican Chairman:
Matt Mackowiak (i)

Chairman, Precinct 273
David Doman
Steven Countway (i)

Chairman, Precinct 281
Jeff Flauding
Stephen Liebel (i)

Chairman, Precinct 330
Ed Hauser
Randy Rosengarten (i)

Chairman, Precinct 383
Cindi Davison (i)
Greg Kestranek

STATEWIDE REPUBLICAN BALLOT REFERENDA (NON-BINDING)

Proposition 1: Texas should eliminate all property taxes without increasing Texans’ overall tax burden.

Proposition 2: Texas should create a Border Protection Unit, and deploy additional state law enforcement and military forces, to seal the border, to use physical force to prevent illegal entry and trafficking, and to deport illegal aliens to Mexico or to their nations of origin.

Proposition 3: The Texas Legislature should require the use of E-Verify by all employers in Texas to protect jobs for legal workers by preventing the hiring of illegal aliens.

Proposition 4: The Texas Legislature should end all subsidies and public services, including in-state college tuition and enrollment in public schools, for illegal aliens.

Proposition 5: Texas urges the United States Congress not to grant any form of amnesty or a pathway to legalization for illegal aliens.

Proposition 6: The Texas Legislature should prohibit the deployment of the Texas National Guard to a foreign conflict unless Congress first formally declares war.

Proposition 7: The Texas Legislature should establish authority within the Texas State Comptroller’s office to administer access to gold and silver through the Texas Bullion Depository for use as legal tender.

Proposition 8: The State of Texas should ensure that Texans are free to give or to withhold consent for any vaccine without coercion.

Proposition 9: The Republican Party of Texas should restrict voting in the Republican primary to only registered Republicans.

Proposition 10: The Texas Constitution should be amended to restore authority to the Texas Attorney General to prosecute election crimes.

Proposition 11: Texas parents and guardians should have the right to select schools, whether public or private, for their children, and the funding should follow the student.

Proposition 12: The Texas Constitution should be amended to require proof of citizenship before any individual can be registered to vote.

Proposition 13: Texas should ban the sale of Texas land to citizens, governments, and entities from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia

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i = Incumbent candidate

* CD 35 candidate Vicente Calvo did not appear on the list of approved candidates from the Secretary of State’s office.

See also: State primary filings

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Updated: 5:24 p.m. 12/21/23
Updates/Corrections: Communications@TravisGOP.com

Drawing numbers from a flannel stocking days before Christmas to determine balot order! (Courtesy photo: Travis GOP)