Elections · U.S. House, District 38 · Texas
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Raised for this seat
$67K
Through June 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$44K
Through June 30, 2026
On the November ballot
McDonough faces Jon Bonck and Alex McMenemy for this seat on November 3, 2026.
The general-election ballot as recorded September 8, 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
- 19%$13K
- Large donors
- 37%$25K
- PACs
- <1%$500
- Party
- 1%$1K
- Self-funding
- 42%$28K
- Other
- --
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
- 788K
- Median household income
- $103K
- Unemployment
- 5.1%
- Living below the poverty line
- 9.1%
- Without health insurance
- 11.2%
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.
- Jon Bonck$1.6M
- Shelly deZevallos$1.1M
- Melissa McDonoughthis page$67K
- Alex McMenemy$9.9K
- Carmen María Montiel$147K
- Michael Pratt$375K
- Larry Rubin$524K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. Showing 7 of the 10 campaigns that hold the seat, are on the ballot, or have $25,000 raised or outside spending, not counting campaigns that ended before any ballot; every filing is on the race page.
In their own words
What McDonough's campaign says it would work on.
The priorities McDonough's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.
- “Inflation”
- “International Trade”
- “Quality Education for All”
- “Affordable Tuition”
- “Defend Democracy”
- “Renewable Energy”
- “Flood Mitigation”
- “Russia-Ukraine War”
- “Israel-Gaza Conflict”
- “Social Justice”
- “Criminal Justice”
- “Protect Our Children”
Quoted from melissaforcongress.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
McDonough 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: Campaign photo, campaign website (reference use, candidate's own published headshot). Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.
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