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Vlad De Franceschi
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

March 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

UCLA, 1993

Graduate

University of California, San Diego, 1996

Law

Stanford, 2000

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Profession
Attorney
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Vlad De Franceschi (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 26th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024.

De Franceschi completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Vladimir de Franceschi was born in Yugoslavia and lives in Texas. De Franceschi earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California-Los Angeles in 1993, a master's in political science from the University of California-San Diego in 1996, and a J.D. from Stanford University in 2000. His career experience includes working as an attorney.[1][2]

Elections

2024

See also: Texas' 26th Congressional District election, 2024

Texas' 26th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)

Texas' 26th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 26

Brandon Gill defeated Ernest Lineberger III and Phil Gray in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 26 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brandon Gill
Brandon Gill (R)
 
62.1
 
241,096
Image of Ernest Lineberger III
Ernest Lineberger III (D) Candidate Connection
 
35.7
 
138,558
Image of Phil Gray
Phil Gray (L)
 
2.3
 
8,773

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 388,427
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 26

Ernest Lineberger III advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 26 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Ernest Lineberger III
Ernest Lineberger III Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
18,308

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 18,308
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 26

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 26 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Brandon Gill
Brandon Gill
 
58.4
 
49,876
Image of Scott Armey
Scott Armey Candidate Connection
 
14.5
 
12,400
Image of John Huffman
John Huffman
 
10.0
 
8,559
Image of Luisa Del Rosal
Luisa Del Rosal Candidate Connection
 
4.6
 
3,949
Image of Doug Robison
Doug Robison
 
3.5
 
2,999
Image of Mark Rutledge
Mark Rutledge
 
2.5
 
2,130
Image of Joel Krause
Joel Krause Candidate Connection
 
2.3
 
1,959
Image of Neena Biswas
Neena Biswas Candidate Connection
 
1.9
 
1,665
Image of Burt Thakur
Burt Thakur Candidate Connection
 
1.1
 
975
Image of Vlad De Franceschi
Vlad De Franceschi Candidate Connection
 
0.7
 
572
Image of Jason Kergosien
Jason Kergosien Candidate Connection
 
0.4
 
366

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 85,450
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 26

Phil Gray advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 26 on March 23, 2024.

Candidate
✔
Image of Phil Gray
Phil Gray (L)

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2024

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Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Vlad De Franceschi completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by de Franceschi's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Vlad is a legal immigrant and a Constitutional Conservative. He was born in a Cold War East European communist country . Because his mom was a prominent dissident journalist, Vlad fled to the U.S. to be protected from government retaliation. After at 19 with $100 in his pocket, he hitched a ride to California. Vlad worked his way through college at UCLA, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in political science, and graduate school at UCSD, finishing a master's degree in political science. After working in engineering and manufacturing strategic planning, Vlad got a law degree at Stanford Law School, while also caring for his son as a full-time single dad. After law school, Vlad became a lawyer for startups in Silicon Valley, passionately serving the entrepreneurs who make this country exceptional. Inspired by his passion for free enterprise and entrepreneurship, he volunteered by teaching hundreds of young people around the world the value of American entrepreneurship and self-reliance. However, after working for two decades in Silicon Valley, he saw it go from the embodiment of the American spirit of personal liberty and free enterprise to being dominated by surveillance big tech and censorship that enables government tyranny like in the communist country he came from. Vlad once again left home: this time to Texas. Seeing the division, out of control government, irresponsible deficits and massive inflation, like in Soviet era communism, he felt called to serve.
  • Secure our borders. Our rights are ours, given to us by our Creator and cannot be given away. People lend those rights to States to exercise them for the People. The States contract with each other to task the Federal government to do things that States alone can't do as well. Those things are written in the U.S. Constitution. One of them is securing States' borders with foreign countries, like, Texas' border with Mexico. When the Federal government doesn't do its job, the States have the right to reclaim their responsibility and do the job themselves. We need secure borders. Texas has every right to secure its southern border until Congress disciplines the executive branch to do it. The U.S. Constitution says so.
  • Secure our elections. Laws we live under and taxes we pay are legal and constitutional only if those who pass laws and impose taxes do so with the consent of the People. People give their consent by voting at elections. If we don't have honest elections, then those who govern us do so without our consent. If those governing us are doing it without our consent, then all of the laws they pass and taxes they collect are illegal and unconstitutional. Americans are losing faith in our federal government and the rule of law. To restore both, we need accurate, transparent and accountable elections. It starts by getting rid of voting on computers. Congress has no business promoting and imposing voting on computers on the States.
  • Save Social Security. Do do so, we need to restore the way Congress funds the government to the one that the Constitution requires. Under the Constitution, the States gave Congress the power to print money and decide its value, not a no-bid private contractor. Since its birth our nation resisted allowing a private monopoly to print our money and decide its value. Yet it finally gave in a 112 year ago. Those deciding the value of the Dollar now have benefited hugely, while the Dollar lost 90% of its value. At the same time it enabled Congress to borrow trillions, jeopardizing Social Security. Those who paid in, have the right to be paid out. We need to change how Congress finds money to fund government so it answers to us not others.
American entrepreneurship. We face many problems. Good news is: we caused them for ourselves so it's within our power to fix them. We just need to re-make a few key decisions correctly. We must restore the proper constitutional balance between the People, States and Federal Government to give time and space to Americans to undo damage done and build up America to yet unseen greatness. The best thing we can do is to unleash the American spirit of competition, innovation and entrepreneurship. This means undo government meddling so that anyone who wants can start a business and compete fairly. It means fair trade, not trade based on who has more regulatory capture and lower slave wages. On a level playing field Americans will always win.
Thomas Jefferson. Knew what was best for America
Federalist Paper 51 by James Madison: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controuls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to controul the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to controul itself. A dependence on the people is no doubt the primary controul on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."
Honesty, integrity, smarts, discernment, hard work ethic, loyalty to constituents, loyalty to the Constitution and ability to focus on the forest, not trees: find a path through the forest to the goal without being distracted or compromising personal integrity and loyalty to the truth.
Trained in law, 20 years of making sure my clients aren't tricked by lawyers, never sold out, hate to lie, love America, think the Constitution and Bill of Rights are the most amazing political document ever written, will never sell out
Putting constituents before self. Knowing and being loyal to the U.S. Constitution. Safeguarding this great Republic for future generations. Leave before you lose sight of what matters: leave after 3 terms.
A human being in office after me that's an even better representative.
Moon landing in 1969
Washing dishes
Hrvat Jest Ratnik
It's already far fetched considering the origin story. Dunno
Sorry, incapable of remembering more than 3 seconds of any song
Poverty
Presuming honest elections, it's the 1/2 of 1 branch where money has the least influence if you don't let it. To be in the House takes votes of the people closest to you, presuming you live in the district the way I do. Getting those votes is done by quality of character and ideas. If your neighbors know you, trust you and agree with your ideas, you don't need to dupe them with TV ads and mailers into voting for you or against the competitor. It's the one place in U.S. government where the political capital your rely on to be in office can be solely the vote of your neighbors, not the money of your donors.
No. The U.S. Constitution agrees.
Don't go broke and avoid war. Finding a path to federal government solvency that doesn't rip off the least rich. Choosing peace over war as we detox from being an empire purely of violence and corruption to be one of economic might and impartiality.

Federal government has 4 choices about what to do with its debt: 1) don't pay it, 2) cut spending to less than taxes collected (-60%), 3) raise taxes to 90%, 4) continue printing money to repay today's debt in stronger dollars with tomorrow's weaker dollars, never mind if transfers wealth from the poorest to the richest, while hoping inflation won't get out of control and if it does impose price controls on milk, bread, gasoline... that is, go full police state central planned Soviet Union. Currently we are on track for solution #4.

Meanwhile, the 1990's Cold War peace dividend was squandered in the sands of central Asia and conduct of foreign affairs by corruption. The approaching power vacuum outside the U.S. will make room for near-peer rivals. It's on U.S. not to fall prey to the idea that only force can keep us safe. Being quick to use force has made us less safe. What will keep us safe is restoring our standing, by deeds not words, that America carries a big stick but is also the beacon of liberty and the best partner in business for those who will do unto others as they want done unto them. Peace in Ukraine. Only a fool thinks that our economy and military can maintain freedom of navigation in the Western Pacific and conduct a war on the Eurasian landmass. Peace in Middle East. Focus on our oil and gas exports, not others'. No new wars of convenience or profit. Right size our military and weapon systems to a world of multipolar containment through new generation warfare, not live in some unipolar Hollywood fantasy land.

But first, fix things at home. Without healthy and wealthy workers, families and kids, all else is out of reach.
Yes. Not perfect, but good enough.
Essential. Competition is the best disinfectant. Unless terms of U.S. House members are extended to 3 years, limit all elected office holders to 2 terms, except U.S. House members to 3 terms.
No
A husband and wife of no wealth in Wise county being prosecuted by the full might of the federal government for participating in a federally guided tour of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Shame on the DOJ and shame on the lawyers who are choosing to selectively prosecute ordinary, patriotic Americans who love their country and exercise their Constitutional rights, while the son of a seated president is a crackhead in illegal possession of a firearm and transports women across state lines for prostitution. Disgusting.
Not rated G
Yes. Not compromise of values. Compromise on tactics to get there, not on the destination. No deal is better than a bad deal. But, ultimately, a member of Congress is there to represent the district not tell it how to think. If constituents want compromise, compromise. If they don't, don't. That's the job description.
No funding of any pet projects until southern border is enforced.
Aid state attorney generals in suing the federal government for unconstitutional and illegal acts and failures to act.
Banking, Foreign Affairs
End the Fed. Require Congress to be directly responsible for printing more Dollars to finance its follies. Require Congress to come to us voters to buy its debt and watch how quickly "waste, fraud and abuse" miraculously disappears and full faith and credit of U.S. government reappears. Make running deficits without borrowing from the voter impossible and watch Congress overnight become fiscal conservatives, free marketeers and champions of less federal bureaucracy.

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Campaign website

De Franceschi’s campaign website stated the following:

“

Election Integrity
Our Constitution begins with: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Our federal government can act only if it has the consent of the American people. We give that consent by voting at elections. If we can’t properly audit our elections, we can’t know that our elections are honest. If we can’t know that our elections are honest, we can’t know that the laws passed, and taxes collected by our federal government are Constitutional and lawful. To “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” we must be able to know our elections are honest. This means transparency, accountability, and accuracy.

Border Security
United States’ sovereignty ends at the line on a map across which it decides whether a person can cross or not. The States agreed to have the federal government patrol and enforce that line on their behalf. That’s why the Constitution says, “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and … against domestic Violence.” The federal government is Constitutionally required to protect the borders and sovereign integrity of the States for them. When the federal government chooses not to enforce the border on behalf of the States, it acts unconstitutionally and invites invasion and violence. It becomes a failed state. If the United States are not to be a failed state, our immigration laws and borders must be strictly enforced. This means that if the Executive branch refuses to enforce laws passed by Congress, then Congress must at least use its Constitutional power of the purse to reign in a lawless Executive.

Government Spending
The survival of our republic with liberty, requires a federal government that lives within its means. Government tyranny is best restrained by denying it money for tyrannical things.

For a reason, the Constitution says that Congress shall have the power “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof…” Because Congress is most often up for election the Constitution gives Congress, not unelected bureaucrats or banks, the power to print money and decide its value. For the same reason, the Constitution says that members of Congress decide how much the federal government spends. When by printing money the Federal Reserve system enables the federal government to spend more than it can ever repay with taxes alone, Congress is evading its Constitutional duty and betraying the American people. It allows inflationary central bank actions to take away, without our permission, our savings and even money our future generations have yet to earn to pay for bills government can’t afford. All with the power to manipulate the supply of dollars so that inflation is used to transfer our money to the government without need for our consent must be directly subject to the will of the voters at election time. Therefore, Congress needs back its Constitutional power to “coin money” and decide its value. We need to end fiat currency, prohibit central bank digital currency, restore American free banking and adopt a balanced budget amendment.

Parental Rights
The Tenth Amendment says that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” There is nothing written in the Constitution that says the federal government gets to decide how your kids are educated. Education is the responsibility of the States and of the people, especially, parents. We need to empower parents who want to decide their children’s education, not use the federal government to persecute them.

Our children must know what Constitutional rights await them, why they will have them, why they must defend them and that our federal government works for them.

We need the most informed and healthy (mentally and physically) future generations that understand and support our Constitution. [3]

”
—Vlad De Franceschi’s campaign website (2024)[4]

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Vlad De Franceschi campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House Texas District 26Lost primary$65,664 $65,667
Grand total$65,664 $65,667
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Vlad for Texas, "About," accessed January 18, 2024
    2. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 2, 2024
    3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    4. ↑ Vlad for Texas, “Issues,” accessed January 18, 2024


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