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Don Huffines

Don Huffines

Republican Incumbent

Candidate for Texas Comptroller

About

Current (appointed August 2026) Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Former Texas State Senator (District 16, 2015–2019). Founder and President of Huffines Liberty Foundation. Founder and President of Huffines Enterprises working in commercial real estate, venture capital, and investments.
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Conservative Endorsements

Candidate Videos

Texas GOP Convention
Montgomery Co. Tea Party Interview
Texan News: 2026 Interview

Survey Responses

Montgomery Co. Tea Party
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Notable Quotes

“I believe with fiscal restraint and spending cuts we can eliminate school property taxes without adding a tax, increasing any taxes, or changing school funding.”
“We need to deport every single illegal alien crossing the Texas Border.”
“The money belongs to you, the people. This is our money, and I’m the taxpayer watchdog.”
“I will DOGE our government to improve efficiency and root out waste and fraud.”

Positions on Texas Eagle Forum Priorities

Border Security & Immigration
  • SUPPORTS FINISHING THE BORDER WALL, shutting down the border if necessary, deploying state resources to defend the border, and ending taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants, stating, "Anyone in our country illegally should be deported, not rewarded." [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • BACKED BORDER ENFORCEMENT MEASURES as Vice Chair of the Senate Veteran Affairs & Border Security Committee. Later statements call for finishing the wall and economic pressure on Mexico. [1, 2, 3]
  • CO-AUTHORED THE SANCTUARY CITIES BAN as a State Senator (Senate Bill 4, 2017). [1, 2, 3]
Secure Our Elections
  • CO-AUTHORED A VOTER PHOTO ID LAW (Senate Bill 5, 2017) and strongly supports only voting with photo ID. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • CALLS FOR STRONGER ELECTION FRAUD LAWS, forensic audits, purging illegal aliens and ineligible voters from voter rolls, and aggressive prosecution. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • SUPPORTS PAPER BALLOTS, ballot tracking by law enforcement, and third-party audits. [1, 2, 3]
Education Issues
  • SUPPORTS SCHOOL CHOICE, Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), and vouchers with no strings attached. Co-authored and voted for Senate Bill 3 (2017), which sought to establish an ESA program and a tax-credit scholarship program to help fund private-school tuition and related expenses. [1, 2, 3]
  • COMMITTED AS COMPTROLLER TO MANAGE AND SUPPORT the state’s new ESA/voucher program. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • CRITICIZED SECULAR "ATHEIST" EDUCATION, the removal of religious elements from schools, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), CRT (Critical Race Theory), and transgender indoctrination. Wants to return control to parents. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • STATED, "Texas spends over $8 billion a year educating illegal aliens. That’s money taken straight from Texas taxpayers and classrooms meant for our own kids. The Legislature should work with President Trump to challenge the Supreme Court’s flawed ruling that forces us to pay for it." [1]
Protect Childhood Innocence
  • ADVOCATED FOR THE CANCELLATION OF RAINBOW STORY TIME at Denton Public Library (2021), describing it as “transgender storytime” that takes children’s innocence and replaces it with “Leftist sexual indoctrination.” Called for firing approving employees. [1, 2]
  • CALLED VIDEO OF AN "ALL-AGES" DRAG SHOW involving young children “grooming that must stop.” Twitter locked his account. [1, 2, 3]
  • REPEATEDLY OPPOSED TRANSGENDER INDOCTRINATION in schools and government agencies, and supported measures protecting children from explicit materials. [1][2][3][4]
Gender Issues
  • CO-AUTHORED A BATHROOM BILL requiring use of bathrooms according to biological sex, as well as changing facilities in public schools, universities, and government buildings (Senate Bill 6, 2017). [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • COMMITTED TO CUT STATE FUNDING for any program allowing men in women's sports, bathrooms, or locker rooms. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • ADVOCATED FOR THE REMOVAL OF AN LGBTQ/GENDER IDENTITY RESOURCES WEBPAGE on the Texas DFPS (Department of Family and Protective Services) website, calling it promotion of “transgender sexual policies to Texas youth with taxpayer dollars." [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Government-Sanctioned Addiction
  • STRONG OPPOSITION TO CASINO/GAMBLING EXPANSION, stating in a 2024 post, “Any efforts to turn Texas into Vegas will fail. We must stand firm—NO casinos!” [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • OPPOSES RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION. Voted for Senate Bill 339 (2015), which authorized limited low-THC cannabis for certain medical conditions (primarily intractable epilepsy). [1, 2]
Protect Life
  • COMMITTED TO PREVENTING TAXPAYER DOLLARS FROM FUNDING ABORTION, stating he will make this a top priority and that "Texans deserve a government that respects life.” [1, 2, 3]
  • 100% PRO-LIFE VOTING RECORD while in the Texas Senate, including support for measures restricting abortion access for minors. [1, 2]
  • DESCRIBED LIFE AS BEGINNING AT CONCEPTION with equivalent value whether “six weeks old… or 60 years old.” Has criticized approaches that still permit early abortions. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Islamification of Texas
  • SPONSORED A "SAVE TEXAS FROM RADICAL ISLAM" SYMPOSIUM, featuring speakers critical of Sharia law and urging GOP primary voters to support banning Sharia. [1, 2]
  • COMMITTED TO MAKING "DON'T SHARIA OUR TEXAS" one of the top priorities he will advance in office. This is one of the Texas GOP's Legislative Priorities for the 90th Legislative Session. [1, 2, 3]
  • SUPPORTS CONTINUING LEGAL FIGHTS TO EXCLUDE CERTAIN ISLAMIC SCHOOLS from the state’s ESA/voucher program and warned against funding that could support the “demise of our own culture.” [1, 2, 3]
National Security
  • CALLED FOR THE GOVERNOR TO DECLARE AN INVASION AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER in 2023 using Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution and advocated for applying economic pressure on the Mexican government to stop the border invasion. [1, 2, 3]
  • PUBLICLY ENDORSED THE ADVERSARIAL NATIONS LAND BAN and questioned whether cartel-influenced Mexican government entities should face similar restrictions. [1, 2, 3]
  • OPPOSED MEASURES TO FORCE TEXAS' INDEPENDENT ERCOT GRID INTO THE NATIONAL NETWORK and supported broader sovereignty and grid protection priorities. [1, 2, 3]
Other Constitutional Issues
  • COMMITTED TO PUTTING PRAYER BACK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, framing it as restoring moral foundations after the 1960s court rulings. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • AUTHORED EARLY CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY (permitless carry) legislation and related open-carry measures (Senate Bill 342, 2015). Gun-rights groups later described him as a “legislative leader for constitutional carry.” [1, 2, 3]
  • REPEATEDLY CRITICIZED COVID ORDERS by Governor Abbott, such as mask mandates and business closures, as unconstitutional overreach and opposed vaccine mandates/passports for public or private entities. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  • COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTING GOLD AND SILVER as legal tender/transactional currency as an alternative to federal fiat money, calling it essential for financial sovereignty and inflation resistance. [1, 2, 3]
Property Tax Relief
  • HAS ARGUED FOR YEARS that property taxes mean Texans “rent” their homes from government. He criticized the 2023 $18 billion property tax relief package as locking in exemptions instead of a phase-out. After being sworn in as Comptroller on August 1, 2026, he pledged to make surplus estimates serve property-tax relief and to prioritize Abbott’s plan to eliminate school district property taxes on homesteads.[1][2][3][4][5]

Notes from Local Researchers

  • Very strong conservative former State Senator. DOGE-centered campaign. U.T. degree in finance. Strongly believes that “Texas has a spending problem.” Wants to expose fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. Advocates for toll-free highways.