Attorney General — Texas
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What this office is
The Attorney General of Texas is the state’s lawyer. One office. The whole state. The term is four years. The next regular election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Confirm the clock, and the Attorney General of record, on official Texas sites. This office has no term limit — that is a clock fact, not a crown.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of Texas. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a county district attorney. Two hundred fifty-four counties hire district attorneys of their own. This office is still the lawyer for Texas.
Austin is the capital, in Travis County, in the Hill Country. Houston is not the capital. Dallas is not the capital. Two hundred fifty-four counties hire the same Attorney General — the border, the Panhandle, the Gulf, East Texas timber, West Texas, and the Hill Country included.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on texasattorneygeneral.gov.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from Austin that is not a Houston skyline, a Panhandle consumer file that never makes a national broadcast, a border-county public-integrity file, a Gulf-storm year, and a ranch file that is not a Dallas press conference.
Staff who only know Houston, or only know Dallas, or only know Austin as the whole state, are not doing the job. Oklahoma is a different state. New Mexico is a different state. Arkansas is a different state. Louisiana is a different state. The Panhandle remains Texas.
What the job entails
- Represent the state. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where Texas law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every county district attorney’s case.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files.
- Two homes. Austin for the job. The rest of the state for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Texas · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on texasattorneygeneral.gov
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a county district attorney.
- Not a United States Senator (Class II is on 2026; Class I next 2030). Texas has no Class III.
- Not one of the thirty-eight U.S. House seats. Those districts do not split this office.
- Not the Mayor of Austin. Not the Mayor of Houston. Not the Mayor of Dallas.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
- Office of the Attorney General
- Texas Secretary of State — Elections
- Office of the Attorney General of Texas
The arena: 2026 election — Attorney General of Texas