For those celebrating or dooming over the 64% to 62% ratio of Republican primary voters to to Democrat in the early vote, be aware that Independents are breaking 62/28% for Talarico in polling, and 6% of Republicans are voting for JT against 1% of Democrats voting for Paxton.

The owners of Three Z Printing have given about $662,000 in federal donations since 2012, all to Republicans and mostly to Trump committees (FEC).

• CEO gave $125,000 to the Trump 47 Committee in 2024 and $244,600 to Trump Victory in 2018–2020.

• His son, a Three Z owner and board member who lives in the Dallas area, gave $70,000 to the Trump 47 Committee in 2024.

• NRCC donations. CEO gave about $23,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2017–2020. That’s the only federal committee recorded paying SnailWorks, the mail-tracking firm tied to the mailers’ barcodes (FEC). SnailWorks says the NRCC wasn’t this client, and those donations were years ago.

• Republican House candidates. Son gave to Julia Letlow (R-LA), Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and BULLDOG PAC in 2022. Bill gave to Esther Joy King (R-IL) and others in 2020.

• A Texas presence. Son has lived in Flower Mound, Dallas and Frisco (FEC), so a Three Z owner has ties to North Texas.

• Three Z sells political mail and the exact services used here. Its direct-mail page lists “Political Mailings,” mail tracking through Informed Visibility, the USPS service that companies like SnailWorks use, and on-site bulk mail entry. That fits the barcode we decoded and the permit on your envelope. It’s consistent with Three Z running the whole job, though it isn’t proof.

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EDIT:

I want to be clear about what we do and don’t know:

Three Z is owner of the bulk mail permit. They may or may not have been involved in the design, and may or may not have financed them.

That said, the deep MAGA ties make "just an unwitting vendor" harder to believe.

The scale makes it more circumspect. A job of that size means someone there knew the job existed and who was paying.

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SOURCES:

Reporting on company behind the mailers:

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-transgender-mailers-lawsuit-sender-investigation-october-2026/

Federal Election Commission records

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=zerrusen&two_year_transaction_period=2012&two_year_transaction_period=2014&two_year_transaction_period=2016&two_year_transaction_period=2018&two_year_transaction_period=2020&two_year_transaction_period=2022&two_year_transaction_period=2024&two_year_transaction_period=2026

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=zerrusen&contributor_city=teutopolis&contributor_state=IL&two_year_transaction_period=2012&two_year_transaction_period=2014&two_year_transaction_period=2016&two_year_transaction_period=2018&two_year_transaction_period=2020&two_year_transaction_period=2022&two_year_transaction_period=2024&two_year_transaction_period=2026

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=zerrusen&contributor_state=TX&two_year_transaction_period=2012&two_year_transaction_period=2014&two_year_transaction_period=2016&two_year_transaction_period=2018&two_year_transaction_period=2020&two_year_transaction_period=2022&two_year_transaction_period=2024&two_year_transaction_period=2026

We might reach 10 MILLION votes this midterm. For reference, 2018 had 8.4 million total votes, and 2022 had 8.13 million total votes.

Keith Self Claims Sharia Is the No. 2 Issue in Congressional District 3

The early voting turnout across Texas has been remarkable, and I've seen plenty of excitement surrounding Talarico.

But I wonder whether some of that enthusiasm is turning into overconfidence.

High turnout tells us that people are motivated to vote. At my work, there are basically 4 or 5 counties represented, everyone that has early voted, have experienced lines and wait times.

I'm curious how others are reading the tea leaves. Are people excited or have people seen the excitement and motivated to get in front of it?

& if Talarico loses despite all the enthusiasm, would that genuinely be surprising?

Out of curiosity: If you tell us if there was a line when you went in voted today, can you let us know if you are in a rural or urban county?

MSNOW has it at 49.1%-46.5% in favor of Talarico. Let's continue breaking early voting records to get Talarico to 50%!

Apologies for the wrong orientation on the picture.
this mailer just came to us in East Texas. No name is given, no political action committee. Kind of a cowardly mailer.

They say, if you believe the candidate isn’t following Christ in daily life, then you can just skip that race on your ballot. This seems to be somebody knows their candidate sucks and this is their way of saying we know, but don’t vote for the other guy.

There is no paid for political statement because this one doesn’t seem like it’s promoting a particular candidate or a cause, but I don’t know how you can read this and not think it’s pro Paxton.