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Republican nominee, Texas Railroad Commission

Bo French: Statements, Business Record and 2026 Texas Railroad Commission Candidacy

In his
own words.

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We have roughly 100 million people in this country who shouldn't be here. They don't share our values.

Bo French · CPAC Texas, Grapevine, March 27, 2026Source
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Bo French speaking into a microphone
On the ballot
November 3, 2026

Quick answer

Bo French is the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner in the November 3, 2026 general election. The Railroad Commission regulates major parts of Texas oil and gas, pipelines, natural-gas utilities, LP-gas, critical natural-gas infrastructure, and coal and uranium surface mining. Despite its name, it no longer regulates railroads.

100M

people he says should be deported.

That is nearly one third of everyone living in the United States. Bo French is a former chair of the Tarrant County GOP and now the Republican nominee for the commission that regulates every barrel of Texas oil and gas. His own party's governor tried to stop him. Below is what he has said, with the receipts.

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The record

Bo French is an un-American candidate.

Family separation at the border
Mass deportation

He wants to deport 100 million people. That's one in three of us.

There are about 14 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Bo French's number is seven times that. To reach it, he would have to remove tens of millions of American citizens, legal residents and visa holders — your neighbors, your coworkers, your kids' classmates.

“It is that we have roughly 100 million people in this country who shouldn't be here.”

Spectrum News, March 31, 2026 Read it
Birthright citizenship and denaturalization
Bo French speaking at CPAC Texas
Muslim Texans

He told a gathering of conservatives the problem isn't extremism. It's Islam.

On a panel called “Don't Sharia My Texas,” French said Republicans should embrace Islamophobia openly. Muslims are two percent of Texas. Nearly half of American Muslims were born here. He wants them to “go home.”

“I'm going to say something that's going to make some people uncomfortable: the problem is actually Islam.”

The Texas Tribune, March 27, 2026 Read it
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Bo French's poll on X asking “Who is a bigger threat to America?” with the options Jews and Muslims
Jewish Texans

His own Republican Party condemned him for the slurs he posted online.

As chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, French's repeated use of slurs on social media drew public condemnation from fellow Republicans. The posts are documented, screenshotted and linked below. Read them yourself.

“Colleagues condemned the Tarrant County GOP chair for his repeated use of slurs.”

San Antonio Report, candidate profile Read it
Hindu temple in Texas
Hindu Texans

Texas has the second-largest Hindu population in America. He has a problem with them too.

French's attacks don't stop at one faith. Hindu Texans — doctors, engineers, small business owners, families who have been here for generations — are on his list of people whose “culture and values do not align with America.”

“Immigration from lots of places in the world whose culture and values do not align with America.”

The Texas Tribune, March 27, 2026 Read it
Christian nationalist megadonors backing Bo French
Who funds him

Who are the Christian Nationalists backing Bo?

Meet Farris Wilks and Tim Dunn, the two Christian nationalist billionaire megadonors defunding public education. They are spending hundreds of thousands to help Bo French.

“Two billionaires who bankroll the movement to defund Texas public schools are spending big to put Bo French on the Railroad Commission.”

The Texas Tribune, March 31, 2026 Read it
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaking at a Republican event
His own party

Greg Abbott and Texas oil producers spent big to stop him. They failed but we cannot.

This isn't a partisan attack. The Republican governor of Texas and the state's largest oil and gas producers poured money into the runoff to keep French off the commission that regulates their industry. He won anyway, with 50.6 percent.

“A hard-right insurgent with a history of disparaging Muslims and immigrants.”

POLITICO E&E News, May 2026 Read it
The businessman

He runs as a businessman.
The businesses kept collapsing.

Bo French wants to regulate an industry that funds a significant share of the state budget. Look at what he has run before: two hedge funds that folded, their funds cancelled in Delaware for unpaid taxes, and a security company that ended in bankruptcy and a lawsuit from the widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle.

Craft International

Chris Kyle's widow sued him for trying to steal the company her husband built.

French co-founded Craft International with the American Sniper in 2009 and served as its chief operating officer. Ten months after Kyle was killed, his widow was in court with him.

  1. December 2013

    Taya Kyle, the widow of Chris Kyle, sued Bo French for allegedly attempting to “steal” Craft International by manipulating funds and failing to purchase her husband's share of the company after his death.

    The Dallas Morning News, December 23, 2013
  2. In the lawsuit

    Kyle claimed French had refused to make the company's financial records available, and had allegedly created a separate company, CI Risk Management, to push debt onto Craft International.

    The Dallas Morning News, December 23, 2013
  3. June 2014

    Craft International declared bankruptcy, reporting that it owed $2.6 million. French was still calling the lawsuit “completely groundless.”

    The Dallas Morning News, June 4, 2014
  4. April 2015

    A settlement between French and Taya Kyle was disclosed. Craft International shut down, and French agreed not to use Chris Kyle's name, likeness or image.

    Absolute Return, April 2015
  5. February 2016

    French received a cease-and-desist letter from Taya Kyle for allegedly using Chris Kyle's name and likeness in his own political campaign, in violation of their settlement.

    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 25, 2016

The ventures he co-founded

2005 – 2006

Verity Capital Partners, LP

Co-founder and chief operating officer
  • ■In June 2006 the hedge fund was reported to have miscalculated the returns it gave investors, overstating its May numbers and understating March and April.
  • ■It closed the same year because it “never reached critical mass as far as raising assets” and “had a difficult time selling the story as a small multi-strategy fund.”
  • ■Delaware records show the partnership owing $1,593 to the state. Both funds it managed — Verity C5 Fund and Verity Onshore Fund — were cancelled in Delaware for failing to pay taxes.
Alternative Investment News, 2005–2007; Delaware Department of State
2007 – 2010

Trugent Capital, LP

Co-founder and chief operating officer
  • ■Trugent was run by the same people who had just run Verity Capital Partners into the ground.
  • ■It ceased operations in 2010.
  • ■The Trugent Fund LP, which sought to sell interests to investors, was cancelled for failing to pay taxes and owes $1,457 to the state of Delaware.
Absolute Return, April 2015; Securities and Exchange Commission; Delaware Department of State
2009 – 2015

Craft International, LLC

Co-founder and chief operating officer
  • ■French founded the security firm with American Sniper Chris Kyle.
  • ■In June 2014, Craft declared bankruptcy owing $2.6 million, while French dismissed Taya Kyle's lawsuit as “completely groundless.”
  • ■The company was shut down entirely as part of French's 2015 settlement with Kyle's widow.
The Dallas Morning News; Absolute Return, April 2015

What he did profit from

$10,082

In federal PPP money, forgiven.

French is the registered agent of RWBF Partnership, LP, a Texas limited partnership still in existence. It took at least $10,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans, and $10,082 was forgiven by the federal government. In 2009 the same partnership needed at least two reminder letters from the state before it filed its mandatory periodic report.

ProPublica PPP database; Texas Secretary of State
303

Tracts of mineral rights he inherited.

French is a managing partner of French Capital Partners, listed as vice president and secretary under his mother, Marcia French, as president. The firm holds mineral rights on at least 303 tracts of land, with at least 18 different companies operating those leases and paying interest to it. The assets trace back to the success of his father, L.R. French.

Texas Secretary of State; Halsell.com
After Pastor Niemöller

He came for the immigrants, and I said nothing because I was born here.

He came for the Muslims, and I said nothing because I am not a Muslim.

He came for the Jews, and I said nothing because I am not a Jew.

He came for the Hindus, and I said nothing because I am not a Hindu.

Then he came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Do nothing and evil ideas will triumph, but if you want good to conquer evil, you have to vote.

If he is elected

Texas gets harmed.
And Bo French decides who is a Texan.

Will you get deported?

He would regulate every barrel of Texas oil and gas.

The Railroad Commission oversees drilling, pipelines, and the industry that funds a significant share of the state budget. French has promised to purge it of “radical Islamists.” That is not an energy policy. It's a purge.

What the office actually does

Texas oil industry leadership loses its renown.

Every headline about the Texas energy sector would carry his name and his words. Investors, operators and the rest of the country would be watching a regulator who thinks a third of America needs to leave. And if he purges the oil and gas industry of his enemies, then there's no one left to work the pumps.

Your neighbors become targets.

Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and immigrant Texans would have a statewide official who has said, on the record, that they don't belong here. That doesn't stay on a stage. It follows people home.

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