The file

Ted Cruz

Republican · U.S. Senator, Texas · Texas · Spectrum score +74

Senate ·

Ted Cruz is U.S. Senator, Texas in Texas. Political positions and ideology score +74 (Far right). Cruz is covered as a climber.

College: Princeton University, B.A. 1992 · Harvard Law School, J.D. 1995
Spouse: Heidi Cruz (m. 2001)
Children: Two
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Texas · 2013–
Solicitor General · Texas · 2003–2008
Associate Deputy Attorney General · U.S. Department of Justice · 2001–2003

Net worth: $4.5M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $1.2M
2026 raised: $18.0M
Years in office: 13

Where Ted stands on the spectrum

Ted Cruz scores +74 on Spectrum’s left–right line (far right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +74 · Far right · economic +68 · social +66 · authoritarian +38

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Cruz is covered as a climber. The file is a household that sat inside Goldman while he ran against ‘the establishment,’ plus a 2026-adjacent national haul that has always been bigger than Texas. The airport story was a gift to people who did not want to read the FEC report.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$4.5M

+275% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$1.2M

Now$4.5M

Harvard Law and Texas AG world, then a national small-dollar machine. Cancun is the meme; Goldman-and-energy is the file.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $18.0M
Cash on hand: $8.0M

Top industries

Oil & gas
Lawyers
Small-dollar
Leadership PACs

Stock holdings

Individual common stock

Energy-state barbell. Some large-cap, mostly funds. Heidi’s Goldman years are the old file.

Senate disclosure, 2024 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

XOM
Exxon Mobil
Joint
$15K–$50K
VTI
Index funds
Joint
$100K–$250K
MSFT
Microsoft
Joint
$15K–$50K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
XOM	Exxon Mobil	Joint	$15K–$50K
VTI	Index funds	Joint	$100K–$250K
MSFT	Microsoft	Joint	$15K–$50K

Sum of ranges $130K–$350K · midpoint $240K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Heidi Cruz’s Goldman years — disclosed, never metabolized.
Energy donors vs a climate-vote record that does not surprise anyone in Houston.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +68
Social: +66
Authoritarian: +38
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+74
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+62
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+70
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+70
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+58
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+68
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+72
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+78
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+66
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+66
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+74
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+46
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.84

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

DW-NOMINATE ~0.84
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.