Las Vegas Sands Texas Super PAC Loaded With More Than $9 Million in Cash
Posted on: August 12, 2025, 11:19h.
Last updated on: August 12, 2025, 01:14h.
- Las Vegas Sands isn’t folding on its fight to legalize casinos in Texas
- The company continues to fund a PAC in Texas
- Dr. Miriam Adelson is the PAC’s lone individual contributor
Las Vegas Sands has sought entry into Texas with an integrated resort casino for many years. Its lobbying committee’s most recent financial disclosure suggests it’s not giving up the fight.
Texas Sands PAC is the political action committee of the Las Vegas-based gaming organization. Sands helped revolutionize the Las Vegas Strip into a luxury-focused destination with the building of The Venetian and Palazzo. Sands sold the assets during the COVID-19 pandemic and has since focused on its operations in Asia.
While the company continues to invest in its five casino resorts in Macau and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, Sands leadership continues to seek a play in Texas, which remains among the largest untapped commercial gaming markets in the country.
Sands’ controlling shareholder, Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of founder and longtime chairman and CEO, Sheldon Adelson, maintains a 46% stake in the company. In late 2023, Adelson, along with her daughter Sivan and son-in-law Patrick Dumont, acquired a 73% position in the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks from fellow billionaire Mark Cuban.
The NBA deal ignited speculation, which Cuban later confirmed, that Sands wants to build a casino resort in Texas. Cuban agrees with Sands that Texas doesn’t have much to offer convention organizers and leisure travelers.
“Ask your out-of-state friends how often they have saved up to bring their family to Texas,” Cuban said in 2023. “You already know the answer.”
Sands Super PAC
Texas Sands PAC, according to recent financial disclosures, has more than $9.3 million in cash on hand.
Adelson is the primary contributor, with the woman worth an estimated $35 billion, giving $9.1 million to the political action committee in June. Las Vegas Sands is the only other contributor, and a minor one at that, with a June 30 donation of $4,500.
Texas Sands PAC is a war chest that’s used to advertise and promote the benefits of commercial casino gambling and integrated resorts that Sands is famed for. The committee also uses its money to lobby state lawmakers to get on board with slot machines and table games, though to date, the campaign funds haven’t delivered a return.
Adelson is among the most dedicated GOP financiers on both the federal and state levels. She was President Donald Trump’s largest financial supporter last year.
The November 2026 election in Texas will be considerable. Along with the gubernatorial election, all 150 seats in the state House of Representatives will be on the ballot. In the Senate, 16 seats will be determined.
The outcome — Sands hopes and is betting — could tip the scale in its favor and finally lead to Texas ending its prohibition on commercial casinos.
GOP Opposition
For now, the Republican Party of Texas opposes the liberalization of casino gambling.
“The Republican Party of Texas is fighting on the frontlines to champion our conservative values and expand our Republican majority to stop the radical left and protect Texas — and America — for generations to come,” the Texas GOP website reads.
As for casinos, the GOP doesn’t mince words.
We oppose any expansion of gambling, including legalized casino gambling. We oppose and call for a veto of any budget that relies on expansion of legalized casino gambling of any type or size, whether as a standalone business or partnered with any other business or resort, as a method of finance,” the Republican Party of Texas says in its 2024 Platform.
“We call on all Republican legislators to decline campaign contributions from gambling PACs and lobbyists and oppose any effort … to pressure members to vote for expanded gambling,” the GOP declaration adds.
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