Texas — 23rd congressional district

14 candidates have filed

Everyone below has an active candidate registration with the Federal Election Commission for this seat. That is not the ballot. Most of these names will not survive a primary, ballot access is decided state by state, and people qualify for a ballot without an FEC filing and file with the FEC without ever qualifying.

Some of the registrations below are marked as not yet having reported raising or spending $5,000. That is the threshold at which the FEC calls someone a statutory candidate, and it is about money and nothing else — a campaign announced last month sits below it until its first report is due. It is noted because their money sections are empty for that reason and not because they raised nothing.

The money under each name is receipts into that candidate's own campaign committee for the 2025–2026 cycle, as the FEC reports them. It is not every dollar spent to elect them: leadership PACs, party committees and independent expenditures all sit outside it, and in a contested seat the outside money can exceed everything shown here. Money is not a position. Nobody's place on the Democratic–Republican scale comes from it — that is counted from roll-call votes and nothing else.

• Bruce Carlton Richardson

  Democratic

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-06-30 · FEC filing

  Registered with the FEC; has not yet reported raising or spending $5,000.

  No congressional voting record. Bruce Carlton Richardson has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  No report filed with the FEC for this cycle yet, so there is no money to show.

• Gregory Diego Lopez

  Democratic

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2023-07-26 · FEC filing

  Registered with the FEC; has not yet reported raising or spending $5,000.

  No congressional voting record. Gregory Diego Lopez has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  No report filed with the FEC for this cycle yet, so there is no money to show.

• Gretel Marysdatter Enck

  Democratic

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-09-25 · FEC filing

  No congressional voting record. Gretel Marysdatter Enck has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  $99k raised by Gretel Marysdatter Enck's campaign through March 31, 2026 · FEC filing

  • Small individual donors19.7%$19k
  • Large individual donors32.0%$32k
  • Self-funded48.3%$48k

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• Katy Padilla Stout

  Democratic

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-11-10 · FEC filing

  No congressional voting record. Katy Padilla Stout has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  $485k raised by Katy Padilla Stout's campaign through June 30, 2026 · FEC filing

  • Small individual donors39.3%$190k
  • Large individual donors51.6%$250k
  • PACs4.7%$23k
  • Self-funded2.0%$10k
  • Transfers in1.5%$7k
  • Other and unclassified0.9%$4k

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• Peter Lewis White

  Democratic

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-03-31 · FEC filing

  Registered with the FEC; has not yet reported raising or spending $5,000.

  No congressional voting record. Peter Lewis White has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  No report filed with the FEC for this cycle yet, so there is no money to show.

• Santos M. Limon

  Democratic

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2023-07-20 · FEC filing

  No congressional voting record. Santos M. Limon has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  $357k raised by Santos M. Limon's campaign through June 30, 2025 · FEC filing

  • Small individual donors0.1%$337
  • Large individual donors0.6%$2k
  • Self-funded99.3%$354k

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• Ben Mendoza

  Independent

  Filed with the FEC · FEC filing

  Registered with the FEC; has not yet reported raising or spending $5,000.

  No congressional voting record. Ben Mendoza has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  No report filed with the FEC for this cycle yet, so there is no money to show.

• Patti Ann Hale-Ashe

  Independent

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-10-20 · FEC filing

  Registered with the FEC; has not yet reported raising or spending $5,000.

  No congressional voting record. Patti Ann Hale-Ashe has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  No report filed with the FEC for this cycle yet, so there is no money to show.

• Veronica Williams

  Independent

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-12-08 · FEC filing

  No congressional voting record. Veronica Williams has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  $12k raised by Veronica Williams's campaign through June 30, 2026 · FEC filing

  • Small individual donors30.0%$4k
  • Large individual donors70.0%$8k

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• Brandon Herrera

  Republican

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2023-07-03 · FEC filing

  No congressional voting record. Brandon Herrera has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  $1.9M raised by Brandon Herrera's campaign through June 30, 2026 · FEC filing

  • Small individual donors0.9%$17k
  • Large individual donors3.5%$68k
  • PACs3.2%$63k
  • Self-funded21.7%$420k
  • Transfers in70.7%$1.4M
  • Other and unclassified<0.1%$456

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• Tony Gonzales

  Republican

  Filed as an incumbent · first filed 2019-05-15 · FEC filing

  Where their votes land

  Each scale runs between the two parties. The left end is the side most Democrats took on a set of hand-picked roll-call votes, the right end the side most Republicans took, and Tony Gonzales's marker sits at the share of those votes they cast on the Republican side. Votes that most of both parties agreed on are left out, because they cannot show which side anyone was on.

  Overall

  average of 5 values

  Democratic side92 · Voted with Republicans almost every timeRepublican side

  • Average House Democrat: 2
  • Average House Republican: 98

  0 is the Democratic side of every party-split vote and 100 the Republican side of every one. This is the average of the 5 value positions below that rest on 4 or more votes, each counted once however many votes stand behind it; 5 values below have fewer than 4 votes and are drawn but not counted in it, and 2 values have no votes from Tony Gonzales at all.

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  • Clean air, water and public land

    8 of 9 votes
    Stronger limits on pollution and development8 of 8 with RepublicansFewer federal restrictions on land and industry

    Did not vote on one further party-split vote on this value, which is not counted either way.

  • Climate and clean energy

    6 of 6 votes
    Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions faster6 of 6 with RepublicansCheaper energy now and fewer federal mandates

  • Civil rights and discrimination

    5 of 5 votes
    Broader federal anti-discrimination protection3 of 5 with RepublicansNarrower federal rules, more left to states

  • Consumer financial protection

    4 of 4 votes
    Stronger federal protection for borrowers4 of 4 with RepublicansLighter regulation of banks and lenders

  • Guns

    4 of 4 votes
    Tighter limits on firearms4 of 4 with RepublicansFewer restrictions on lawful gun owners

  • Immigration

    3 of 4 votes
    More legal protection and processing capacity3 of 3 with RepublicansStricter enforcement and less federal benefit access

    Only 3 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

    Did not vote on one further party-split vote on this value, which is not counted either way.

  • Reproductive health care

    3 of 3 votes
    Protecting access to abortion, contraception and IVF2 of 3 with RepublicansRestricting abortion and the funding behind it

    Only 3 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

  • War powers

    3 of 4 votes
    Requiring Congress to authorise military force3 of 3 with RepublicansLeaving the deployment decision with the President

    Only 3 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

    Did not vote on one further party-split vote on this value, which is not counted either way.

  • Voting and elections

    2 of 2 votes
    Wider access to the ballot2 of 2 with RepublicansTighter eligibility and identity checks

    Only 2 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

  • Workers, wages and care

    2 of 2 votes
    Stronger bargaining rights and higher wage floors2 of 2 with RepublicansMore employer flexibility and lower labour costs

    Only 2 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

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  Positions count only the votes this person cast, so two people can be placed on different numbers of votes — the count beside each value says how many. How the votes were chosen, and how each party's side is counted.

  $2.3M raised by Tony Gonzales's campaign through June 30, 2026 · FEC filing

  • Small individual donors1.3%$29k
  • Large individual donors36.5%$830k
  • PACs20.9%$475k
  • Transfers in36.8%$835k
  • Other and unclassified4.5%$102k

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  Who gave to them

• Francisco "Quico" Canseco

  Republican

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2004-01-06 · FEC filing

  Francisco "Quico" Canseco has served in Congress, but none of the key votes behind these values fell within their time there, so there is nothing to measure yet. Their full record.

  $80k raised by Francisco "Quico" Canseco's campaign through December 31, 2025 · FEC filing

  • Self-funded100.0%$80k

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• Keith George Keith Barton

  Republican

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-12-01 · FEC filing

  Registered with the FEC; has not yet reported raising or spending $5,000.

  No congressional voting record. Keith George Keith Barton has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  No report filed with the FEC for this cycle yet, so there is no money to show.

• Susan Storey Rubio

  Republican

  Filed for an open seat · first filed 2025-06-12 · FEC filing

  No congressional voting record. Susan Storey Rubio has not served in the US House or Senate, so there are no roll-call votes to measure and nothing to place on the Democratic–Republican scale.

  $419k raised by Susan Storey Rubio's campaign through October 24, 2025 · FEC filing

  • Small individual donors0.6%$3k
  • Large individual donors15.7%$66k
  • Self-funded83.6%$350k
  • Other and unclassified0.1%$385

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