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Texas House race: cookies, liquor and Nazi mockery
The campaign's federal filings show more than four thousand three hundred dollars on cookies, beer, wine and Mexican restaurants; the race itself remains very much unbaked.
Watch it as it aired: Dale Bearman, Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock on this story, from The Pile-On at 7:44 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Fox News's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by Fox News: “Cookies, liquor and mocking Nazis fuel final stretch in fiery Texas House race”.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 7:44 PM ET on The Pile-On, by Dale Bearman, Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.
- Topics: Texas.
- BBN covered this story before: Uranium cubes show Nazi reactor was far from working (October 16).
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What BBN said about it

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKaty Padilla Stout is the Democrat in a fiery Texas House race, and her campaign reported more than four thousand three hundred dollars on cookies, beer and wine, and Mexican restaurant spending, according to federal records.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorCookies first, Hank, and then the beer, and then one day you wake up and the whole republic is a bake sale.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr it is a campaign that feeds its volunteers, Dale, which is what a community looks like when it is hungry and hopeful.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHopeful for a snickerdoodle, Vera, with my tax-paying eyes watching.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCampaign money, Dale, not tax money. Fox also says the race has turned heated, with the candidate mocking Nazis.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich proves she has range. She can do a fight in the morning and a cookie platter by lunch.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish. Nobody buys that many cookies without a plan, and the plan is always more cookies.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMore cookies.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the Mexican restaurant is a small business, Dale. You are attacking enchiladas.

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI am attacking the pattern, Vera. Cookies, beer, enchiladas, and then a ballot.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat is called a Friday. I would ask for a recount of the cookies. Brock, is the forecast also running a tab?
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