Brandon Anders

As usual, follow the money! For investigative journalists who have the tenacity and chops to follow through and not be intimidated, find the common denominator in the democrats below. James Talarico Gina Hinojosa Vikki Goodwin Nathan Johnson Sarah Eckhardt Benjamin Flores Clayton Tucker Jon Rosenthal All eight names are the 2026 Texas Democratic statewide ticket, run as a single coordinated slate. Every statewide executive office plus the U.S. Senate seat. Same ballot line, same campaign apparatus, same election night. Shared campaign infrastructure. All eight were built into “Texas Together,” a $30M coordinated campaign the Texas Democratic Party ran jointly with the Texas Majority PAC, Powered by People (Beto O’Rourke’s group), and the Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee. Per the Tribune, they shared voter files, vendor agreements, field offices, and 30+ million mailers, and held joint rallies. That’s a literal shared-donor and shared-vendor pipeline — the party ran a competitive RFP and negotiated vendor pricing on their collective behalf. Shared money. Texas Majority PAC is bankrolled by George Soros and family and staffed by O’Rourke campaign alumni; it covered candidate recruitment and start-up costs. Hinojosa took $1M from JB Pritzker and $1M from the Democratic Governors Association. Talarico drew Mark Cuban, Bill Nye, and Don Henley. All eight got bloc endorsements from the Houston Chronicle and Austin Statesman editorial boards. Six of eight were sitting state legislators, all in the same Lege Democratic caucuses. Four of those six — Talarico, Hinojosa, Goodwin (House) and Eckhardt (Senate) — represent overlapping Austin/Travis County districts. Same media market, same donor Rolodex, same base. The Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus. Hinojosa was a vice chair; Goodwin is the caucus whip. Talarico was the founding figure of the caucus (founded 2021, the session he entered). Goodwin and Eckhardt are both ranked among the most liberal members by Rice’s Mark Jones scores. Dynasty ties to the party itself. Hinojosa’s father, Gilberto Hinojosa, chaired the Texas Democratic Party from 2012 to 2025 — the same party that built the coordinated campaign her ticket-mates rode. Eckhardt’s father was U.S. Rep. Bob Eckhardt. Johnson’s employer is Thompson Coburn LLP. Shared platform and fate. All five legislators plus Tucker and Flores backed a data-center moratorium; the whole slate ran on affordability and anti-corruption. They won by 4.5 to 12 points and all take office in January. Next, and most important, look for offshore accounts hidden by layers of shell companies and LLCs. The release of the Panama Papers 3.0 is long overdue; it will shake Washington, DC, and the nation to its very core. Many family legacies and lifelong careers will end in a flash. My last update was August 2026, when senior forensic investigators reviewing millions of documents found that 3,629 current politicians (including local, state, and federal governments, attorneys general, district attorneys, and 112 federal judges) have ‘hidden’ offshore bank accounts, using tactics to not only shield assets from judgments and prying eyes, but to circumvent taxes. Not too bright. They are all using the same core group of a handful of offshore ‘asset protection’ firms. 🤡 The typical scheme these offshore ‘asset protection’ firms set up, costing their clients 6, even 7 figures in legal fees, can be as simple as: Kickbacks/Dirty Money → Law Firm → Shell Company 1 (Panama) → Shell Company 2 (British Virgin Islands) → Shell Company 3 (Swiss Bank) → Legitimate Business, with additional loops like Shell Company 1 → Shell Company 3 and back. Many of my X followers are not seeing posts like this one. If you are reading this, you are the exception. 👉 Boost the algorithm, fight the throttling, and get more 👀: Bookmark, share, reply, repost, like, and follow @TonySeruga