Why Is Texas Campaign Merch Like This?

In less than two months, Texans will cast primary ballots in the first statewide election in at least a generation in which both parties are holding competitive primaries. The prize? The seat currently held by Texas’s senior senator, John Cornyn, who is locked in a three-way battle with Attorney General Ken Paxton and rising star U.S. Congressman Wesley Hunt to retain the party’s nomination. Whoever emerges victorious from that contest will face the winner of a struggle between two promising young Democrats: state Representative James Talarico, from Austin, and Dallas congressional member Jasmine Crockett, both of whom are running rare well-funded primary campaigns. There are a lot of ways to parse the differences between each of the candidates, but one is to look at how they’re presenting…

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