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Texas 18th congressional district

TX-18 · 119th Congress (2020 Census) · 791,493 residents · Federal money here

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These lines have been in force since the 118th Congress.

Where TX-18 sits in Texas

TX-18 is outlined among the 37 other seats in Texas. Hover any district for its representative and its median household income; click to open it. Colour shows the party of the sitting member, not the value, and the outline is a deliberately non-party colour so a highlighted seat cannot be misread as one. Boundaries are the 119th Congress plan.

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Current representative

Christian D. Menefee

Democrat · holding this seat since 2026

Recorded votes

Yea 102Nay 123

of 234 roll calls across their career.

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Government experience

  • House · TX-182026–2027

Where their votes land

No overall position: fewer than 3 values have 4 or more of their votes.

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Where the money came from

Receipts into Christian D. Menefee’s own campaign committee over the 2025–2026 election cycle, through June 30, 2026.

  • Small individual donors$700,826
  • Large individual donors$2,698,549
  • PACs$234,868
  • Self-funded$100
  • Other and unclassified$3,236
  • Total receipts$3,637,579
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What these categories mean
Small individual donors
People whose giving stayed under $200 in total. The FEC does not require them to be named, so who they are is genuinely unknown — not merely unlisted.
Large individual donors
People whose giving passed $200, which is the point at which the campaign must report their name, employer and occupation.
PACs
Political action committees — corporate, trade, union and ideological. Money from an organisation rather than from a person.
Self-funded
The candidate's own money: what they gave the campaign outright plus what they lent it.
Other and unclassified
The remainder once every category above is accounted for: federal funds, offsets, interest, and anything this site could not classify. It is a residual, not a kind of donor.

This is money the campaign itself received. It is not everything spent to win the seat. It excludes leadership PACs, and it excludes independent expenditures and other outside spending — money spent to elect or defeat a candidate by groups they may not lawfully coordinate with, which in a contested race can exceed everything shown above. It is not personal income or net worth, which are a separate filing altogether. Figures are as filed with the Federal Election Commission and are only as current as the last report, covering through June 30, 2026; a cycle still running is a partial count. Check this filing on fec.gov.

Personal finances

Separately from the campaign money above, Christian D. Menefee files a report about their own money: what they own, what they owe, what they earn outside Congress, and every stock trade they make. The law requires it, and every figure in it is a range rather than an amount — which is why the columns below are ranges too.

What they report owning, and owing
  • Reported debts$100k to $250k1 line

Every column is read from $0. The solid height is the total of the low ends of the bands the filer ticked; the pale cap runs on to the total of the high ends, and is the range the form allows — not a margin of error and not a guess. Assets less debts comes to at least -$250k — a range, and not a net worth: the form does not ask about a personal residence that earns nothing, about congressional salary, or about the exact value of anything.

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From Christian D. Menefee’s own financial disclosure, filed under the Ethics in Government Act. Every figure is the band the filer ticked.

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Latest figures — Measured on this ground since they took the seat

Contact my Representative about thisChristian D. Menefee (opens their office’s page in a new tab)

Click one of the figures to see how it has changed over time.

Each arrow is the latest published figure against the newest one published before Christian D. Menefee took this seat, with the two periods named beside it. A rate moves in percentage points; every other indicator is shown as a share of where it started, and a dollar figure also by how much it moved after inflation, with both figures restated in the same year’s dollars. A row marked redrawn is one whose district lines moved between the two figures: they describe different ground, so that change belongs to the seat number rather than to a fixed piece of land. A row marked earliest had nothing published before they took the seat, so it is measured from the first figure there is — a window that starts inside their tenure rather than at the beginning of it. These are conditions in the district, not a record of the member. Nothing here is evidence that they caused any of it, or that a different representative would have produced different numbers.

Median household income over time, 2005-2009 to 2020-2024

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Half of households in the district earn more than this, half less.

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Median household income by period, with 90% margins of error, the same figures in 2025 dollars.
PeriodMedian incomeIn 2025 dollarsMargin of errorCongress
2005-2009$36,949$55,447± $586111th
2006-2010$37,339$55,128± $585111th
2007-2011$38,342$54,877± $666112th
Lines redrawn for the 113th Congress — figures above and below describe different areas.2008-2012$40,175$56,334± $626113th
2009-2013$40,191$55,543± $713113th
2010-2014$41,156$55,969± $644114th
2011-2015$41,435$56,282± $545114th
2012-2016$42,352$56,811± $543115th
2013-2017$44,527$58,482± $869115th
2014-2018$46,379$59,462± $858116th
2015-2019$47,534$59,858± $851116th
2016-2020$49,250$61,264± $939116th
2017-2021$51,725$61,455± $935116th
Lines redrawn for the 118th Congress — figures above and below describe different areas.2018-2022$58,805$64,690± $1,117118th
2019-2023$60,901$64,347± $1,375118th
2020-2024$63,409$65,077± $1,700119th

The "in 2025 dollars" figures are the published ones restated for inflation with the BLS Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. city average, all items, annual average. A five-year estimate is published in the dollars of its final year, so 2016-2020 is adjusted from 2020 dollars. The adjustment is the same for every place in a period, so it changes no ranking; it says what a figure from an earlier period would be in today's money. It is not a local cost of living, and the margin of error is still the published one.

Nominal dollars as published for each period -- not inflation-adjusted. A median cannot be averaged across areas, so this is published district-level data only.

This is a median. It is published as measured and is never re-aggregated from smaller areas — averaging medians does not produce a median.

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Who represented this district

Every member who held TX-18, grouped by the stretches over which these lines stayed the same. The groups break where the chart above breaks, because the members either side of a redraw represented different ground.

Every member who held TX-18, grouped by the stretches over which the district lines stayed the same.
MemberPartyYearsLines in force
Sheila Jackson Lee · 2 termsDemocrat2009–2013111th–112th Congresses
Lines redrawn for the 113th Congress — figures above and below describe different areas.Sheila Jackson Lee · 5 termsDemocrat2013–2023113th–116th Congresses
Lines redrawn for the 118th Congress — figures above and below describe different areas.Sheila Jackson LeeDemocrat2023–2024118th–119th Congresses
Erica Lee CarterDemocrat2024–2025
Sylvester TurnerDemocrat2025–2025
Christian D. MenefeeDemocrat2026–present

Party is the party held during that term, not the member’s party today. A stretch ends where the district was redrawn: the members either side of a break represented different ground, so the seat number is the only thing they have in common. Nothing here says a member caused any figure on this page to move. Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators.