Texas Nationalist Movement Expands Its Outside-Money Index to Texas’s Federal Races

The Texas Nationalist Movement has extended whoboughttexas.com to the federal ballot. A newly added section of the Texas Outside Money Index traces the outside money in the campaigns to represent Texas in Washington: the 2026 contest for the U.S. Senate seat and all 38 U.S. House districts.

The federal page scores every candidate who has raised at least $50,000, more than 120 in all, on the share of their money that comes from outside Texas. The figures are built from public campaign-finance records, chiefly the filings candidates make with the Federal Election Commission, with money routed through political action committees traced back to the states its donors live in.

The index treats the federal races as a separate view to its main state-level index. Money crosses state lines in a congressional race as a matter of course. A Texas Senate seat is contested with dollars from every corner of the union, and the outside shares typically run far higher than they do in a race for the statehouse. “Outside money in a Texas Senate or House race is ordinary,” the page notes, “not the anomaly it is in a state race.” What the tool measures is not scandal but degree. Which candidates for a Texas seat lean on Texans, and which lean on money from somewhere else?

The spread is wide. Some candidates raise most of their money at home. Others draw most of it from outside Texas, in a handful of cases better than three-quarters. The index lists each candidate by name, with the percentage and the underlying totals, and runs the same arithmetic on all of them regardless of party or office.

The federal page answers a question the state index could not. The people who fill those seats represent Texas in Washington, and until now there was no single place to see how much of the money that sends them there comes from Texans at all.