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Darren Hamilton Libertarian

Texas House, District 57

About this race: A district in the northern suburbs of Dallas-Fort Worth. The sitting member's recorded votes on the 2025 hemp-THC ban and the Compassionate Use Program expansion are listed below in date order, with their record-vote numbers, as the official journals print them.

Whose record this page shows. The paragraph above is about the race, and part of it describes a different person. Everything after this line on this page is Darren Hamilton’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the finding that no record was located. Every record the paragraph above describes is set out candidate by candidate on the Texas House, District 57 race page.

Darren HamiltonLibertarian
100/100 support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100 moderate — three to five records produced this number · 3 of 3 records scored
How this score is worked out

Seven kinds of act move this number, and they do not count equally. A recorded vote counts 3, and so does authoring a bill or signing an executive action; signing on to somebody else’s bill counts 2. A statement or a questionnaire answer counts 2 as well, and an organisational endorsement counts 1. A vote takes its direction from the bill, whose effect is set out in advance; the rest take it from our reading of what was said, and each one below shows that reading and the reason for it. Acts shown with no number were examined and deliberately left out of the arithmetic, with a reason given.

  • 2026-09-08 questionnaire — Answered that strong regulation is preferable to prohibition and that further restrictive hemp legislation should not be pursued, counted as +2 at weight 2
  • 2024-10-15 statement — Platform states that laws criminalising cannabis possession are as unreasonable as criminalising possession of potpourri, counted as +2 at weight 1.2
  • 2022-11-04 statement — His campaign site says legalization of cannabis at a recreational level is necessary and calls for legal cannabis and hemp farming, counted as +2 at weight 1.2

Average on the −2 to +2 scale: 2. Full method and the bill table.

  • Said2022-11-04

    His campaign site’s Repeal Criminal Possession Laws page says: "I believe it is also long-past time to legalize cannabis and hemp farming in Texas." and "Legalization of cannabis at a recreational level is necessary, if for no other reason than we are wasting too much of the taxpayers’ money on prosecuting and housing non-violent drug offenders."

    ⚠️The page carries no date. 2022-11-04 is the date of the earliest Internet Archive capture containing this text, a capture date and not a publication date, so the position was published by at least then; it is a different page from the one already on this card. The page was read by us on 2026-10-17 and again on 2026-10-20 (HTTP 200, names the candidate).

    hamiltonfortexas.com, web.archive.org

  • Said2024-10-15

    Published a platform page headed "Vice and Morality Laws" stating: "Let's not forget about the ever persistent (and inconsistent) battle over marijuana legalization. Any law criminalizing cannabis possession (not using it, simply having it) are just as ridiculous as would be any law criminalizing the possession of potpourri or mulch." The page is undated: 2024-10-15 is the date of the earliest Internet Archive capture containing this text, a capture date and not a publication date.

    hamiltonfortexas.com, web.archive.org

  • Questionnaire2026-09-08

    Published answers to the Texas Hemp Business Council candidate questionnaire on his campaign site, dated there as submitted 8 September 2026. Answered "Strongly Support" on maintaining a legal, regulated hemp marketplace, writing "strong regulation is always preferable to prohibition". On prohibition versus regulation answered "Yes", writing: "prohibition does not eliminate demand. It eliminates testing, labeling, accountability, and the ability to distinguish responsible businesses from bad actors."

    On adult freedom of choice answered "Yes", writing that the role of government is "NOT to substitute a politician's judgment for an adult Texan's personal choices."

    hamiltonfortx.com, hamiltonfortx.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com, texashempbusinesscouncil.com

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Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Texas Ethics Commission

Texas Ethics Commission filer 86246, filed as “Hamilton, Darren J.”, treasurer appointment for State Representative, District 57, dated 2021-12-05. The name on the filing is not word-for-word the name on the ballot — both are printed above so you can check the pairing yourself before you rely on it.

Why there are no figures and no industry breakdown here. Texas does not require a candidate to report a contributor’s employer or occupation — the Commission’s own 2026 guide asks for the amount, the contributor’s name and address, and the date, and that is all. So there is nothing in these filings to group into industries, and we have built no such grouping rather than imply one. Separately, the Commission’s bulk filing archive tells automated readers to stay out of it, and we honour that, so we have read no individual Texas contribution record. Treat the itemised question as unchecked by us, not as checked and found empty.

Read this filer’s own reports at the Texas Ethics Commission (ethics.state.tx.us) → — choose Transaction Type “Contributions”, then Search By “Filer ID” and enter 86246. The Commission’s search posts its results, so there is no direct link to one filer’s page; the number above is what makes it one step instead of a hunt.

Any grouping of contributors into an industry is weedvoter’s own classification, applied to employer and committee names exactly as filed. The Commission publishes employers and committees; it never publishes industries. OpenSecrets discontinued its public interface in April 2025, so nothing here is an OpenSecrets classification.

Money received is not a position. Everything on this card is money that changed hands. It is not evidence that any contribution influenced any decision, nothing on it is placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive. For what Darren Hamilton has actually done about cannabis, read the record above on this page — the roll calls, the bills that carry their name, and the date of each one, every entry linked to the document it came from. That is the part of this page built to be judged, and it is the part the score is calculated from. No contribution on this card moves that score by a cent.