Elections · U.S. House, District 23 · Texas
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Raised for this seat
$1.9M
Through June 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$309K
Through June 30, 2026
On the November ballot
Herrera faces Katy Padilla Stout and Ben Mendoza for this seat on November 3, 2026.
The general-election ballot as recorded September 21, 2026, not a prediction. Certified list: Texas Secretary of State; Certified List of Write-In Candidates (Federal, State, and District), including four U.S. Senate write-ins; Independent Candidate Filings for 2026, with each applicant's outcome. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.
Where the money comes from
- Small donors
- <1%$17K
- Large donors
- 3%$68K
- PACs
- 3%$63K
- Party
- --
- Self-funding
- 22%$420K
- Other
- 71%$1.4M
Other includes $1.4M transferred in from committees this candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC.
Separately, $1.3M in independent expenditures was reported for and against this candidate by outside committees. That money is not the candidate's receipts and is not part of the mix above.
Receipts reported through June 30, 2026. Source: FEC.
How to vote in Texas
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 30 days before the election.
The district they want to represent
- People
- 771K
- Median household income
- $79K
- Unemployment
- 4.7%
- Living below the poverty line
- 13.6%
- Without health insurance
- 15.1%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate. These figures describe the district as drawn before its lines changed for 2026; estimates for the new lines are not yet published.
Against the field for this seat
Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, incumbent first and then by name, never in money order.
- Gretel Enck$99K
- Tony Gonzales$2.3M
- Brandon Herrerathis page$1.9M
- Santos Limon$357K
- Ben Mendoza-
- Susan Rubio$419K
- Katy Padilla Stout$485K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. A hollow row is a candidate with no finance report on file yet, not one who raised nothing. Showing 7 of the 8 campaigns that hold the seat, are on the ballot, or have $25,000 raised or outside spending; every filing is on the race page.
Spending to support them
$913K- Freedom Caucus Fund$630K
- No Going Back PAC$219K
- America PAC$61K
- GOA Victory Fund$2.2K
- Make Liberty Win$447
Spending to oppose them
$428K- AB PAC$268K
- Hispanic Leadership Trust$75K
- Hispanic Leadership Action$73K
- Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee$12K
- United Democracy Project-Pro-IsraelPro-Israel
How these directions are decided
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC, through October 10, 2026. The supporting or opposing direction is each committee's own declared filing, not an interpretation, and a group spending against a candidate is not necessarily spending for their opponent. Outside money is not the campaign's money and is never added to what they raised.
In their own words
What Herrera's campaign says it would work on.
The priorities Herrera's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.
- “Solving the Border Crisis”
- “Cutting Taxes, Spending, and Regulation”
- “Improving Veterans’ Healthcare”
- “Defending Gun Rights”
- “Protecting Life”
- “Enacting Term Limits”
- “School Choice and Protecting Homeschooling”
- “Opposing Endless Wars”
- “Protecting Social Security and Medicare”
- “Standing with President Trump”
Quoted from brandonherreraforcongress.com, read August 14, 2026. A campaign site changes; this is what it said on that date. Curia quotes these and does not check, rate or rank them.
Record in office
Herrera does not hold a seat in Congress now, so there is no current voting record, cosponsorships or committee service to show here.
That absence is not a position for or against anything.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Portrait: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.
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