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General election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Nonpartisan voter guide · Texas

Riley Rodriquez

Candidate · November 3, 2026 general election

Riley Rodriquez

Riley Rodriquez

Democratic
On ballot as
Riley Rodriquez
Current role
Performance coach and owner of a small service business in Abilene (per campaign)
Background
  • Finishing a degree at Texas Tech (per candidate)
  • Grew up in the district (per campaign)
  • Father was a ranch hand, mother a probation officer (per campaign)
Experience
  • Has worked as a cowboy, an oilfield hand and a business owner (per campaign)
Top priorities
  • "Home hardening exemptions and grants to bring down homeowners insurance premiums"
  • "Remove energy sales tax exemptions for data centers"
  • "Create a rural water capture program to protect Texas groundwater"
  • "tax credits and grants for doctors, PAs, nurse practitioners and specialists that set up a practice in rural communities"
Tidbits
  • Abortion: No public statement found
  • Border and immigration: No public statement found
  • Guns: No public statement found
  • Public schools and vouchers: In a Lubbock Avalanche-Journal questionnaire (Feb. 2026), said he will not "sell out my rural district for Big tech corporations, public funding to private schools"
  • Property taxes: In a Lubbock Avalanche-Journal questionnaire (Feb. 2026): "I would stop putting a bandaid on property taxes by using exemptions"
Endorsements
  • Panhandle Democrats
Campaign website
rileyforsenate.org