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Wesley Hunt

Rep · R–TX-38
3/7
📚 Summer School
📚 Summer school. Wesley Hunt holds 3 of seven stars — but fails a critical Article (Free & Fair Elections). Assignment: summer school for Civics, watch every Schoolhouse Rock episode five times, and submit a one-page report — due before the end of the year. Report to summer school →

Rhetorical, not literal — an opinion on conduct measured against our civics standard. Ratings terms · Challenge this review

1Open Bookscritical
79%★ earned
“…the property of the people.” — Cicero, De Re Publica
7.8% of receipts from PACs — clean under the 15% cap, and no corporate leadership PAC. (FEC 2026)
60
2Free & Fair Electionscritical
42%☆ not yet
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” — Abraham Lincoln
Championed Texas's 5-seat redraw — 'we got ours' (Texas Tribune, Apr 2026). Backing a partisan gerrymander fails Free & Fair Elections.
60
3The Dignity of the Opponent
55%☆ not yet
“Treat humanity … always as an end and never as a means only.” — Kant
Combative media presence but no documented pattern of treating opponents as an enemy class.
60
4Fear Is Not Fuel
52%☆ not yet
“…the better angels of our nature.” — Lincoln, First Inaugural
Messaging mixes an affirmative pitch with grievance-driven cable-news framing.
60
5Truth & a Kept Word
62%★ earned
“…living within the truth.” A representative owes “his judgment.” — Havel · Burke
Limited fact-check record; no major documented falsehoods on file.
60
6Against the Spirit of Party
38%☆ not yet
“The baneful effects of the spirit of party.” — Washington, Farewell Address
Reliable party-line Republican with little documented independence from leadership.
60
7Morality
75%★ earned
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
No personal-ethics, criminal, or corruption matter on the public record; default character score.
60

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Scores are Independent 2026’s own editorial read against the Seven Articles — ≥60% earns the star. The first two Articles are critical: fail Open Books or Free & Fair Elections and there is no seal, whatever else holds. Each Article carries its founding quote as the yardstick. On bias →

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