Ted Brown

Brown supports energy development and economic growth over stricter environmental regulation, saying any proposed regulation must actually achieve its intended result and be weighed against its costs. He supports the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas, deferring to industry professionals on extraction methods.

Ted Brown advocates a smaller federal government and economic liberty, including repealing the federal income tax, abolishing the IRS, and replacing the income tax with nothing. He says he would not vote to raise taxes and supports major spending cuts to reduce deficits and debt, arguing that lower taxes and less regulation would improve economic growth.

Brown advocates reducing government involvement in health care and relying on free-market competition. He supports expanding Health Savings Accounts, selling health insurance across state lines, allowing drug purchases from other countries, increasing the number of doctors and nurses, and making licensing reciprocal among states. He says he would keep Medicaid and Medicare available for now but favors a free market in health care services.

Brown’s campaign platform calls for abolishing ICE, limiting CBP to borders and other ports of entry, ending immigration checkpoints, raids, detention and family separations, and allowing free movement across international borders. It proposes an Ellis Island-style system welcoming entrants after criminal-record and communicable-disease checks, with permission to work from day one rather than relying on welfare.

Brown says he is personally opposed to abortion but believes women have the right to control their reproductive functions and that abortions during the first and second trimesters, before fetal viability, should be legal. He opposes taxpayer-funded abortions; regarding Planned Parenthood, he says it should not receive public funds for abortion but that funding for its other services should depend on the specific service.

Brown's campaign presents a noninterventionist foreign-policy position: it describes Libertarians as opposed to unnecessary wars and foreign intervention, and advocates a peaceful foreign policy. His listed formulation is “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”

Ted Brown's campaign presents a general personal-liberty position: people should be free to live as they choose, provided they take responsibility for their actions and do not violate others' rights. The available campaign material does not specify positions on particular civil-rights protections, discrimination laws, or equality policies.

Brown says he supports the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. His campaign website describes gun ownership as an American tradition and says Libertarians strongly defend the Second Amendment; no newer, race-specific vote or detailed firearms proposal was identified in the reviewed sources.

Brown favors making voting easier: he supports voting without photo identification, allowing any voter to request an absentee ballot, and mailing voter-information pamphlets before elections. He also supports making it easier for third-party and independent candidates to get on the ballot and favors making the Texas Secretary of State an elected position rather than a gubernatorial appointee.

Brown frames local issues through a limited-government and personal-liberty lens. His campaign says Libertarians have challenged laws that violate privacy and liberty at the federal, state, and local levels; in a June 2026 interview, Brown said his approach is to advance “more freedom and less government,” personal and economic freedom, and a smaller government. The campaign materials do not identify a specific local-government proposal or municipality-specific policy.

Ted Brown's campaign education plan calls for abolishing the federal Department of Education, implementing tuition tax credits for private-school families, and supporting charter schools. These are campaign proposals for the U.S. Senate race in Texas; the campaign page does not establish details on implementation or funding.

Brown's campaign platform emphasizes digital privacy and limits on government use of technology: he opposes government-mandated age verification and digital-ID requirements, government social-credit systems, internet censorship, restrictions on VPNs, and warrantless government collection of personal data. The platform does not state a specific position on regulating artificial intelligence itself.