This is a politics of unity, a politics of friendship, a politics of love. Attorney General Ken Paxton, Talarico’s Republican opponent, unveiled his own economic agenda last week, dubbed “Protecting the Texas Promise” and centered on tax deductions. “Republicans and some Democrats sold the false Gospel of trickle-down economics: that the best way to grow the economy is to let the rich get richer and forget about everybody else,” he said. Talarico said his proposals, taken together, aim to recreate a “new American dream” for people “working hard and playing by the rules. “We know that the cost of housing under the Biden administration skyrocketed,” Paxton said Tuesday at the first stop of his own weeklong tour promoting his economic agenda.