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Elections · U.S. House, District 38 · Texas

Jon Bonck

Republican On the November ballot

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The Bonck cardThe race card

Raised for this seat

$1.6M

Through June 30, 2026

Cash on hand

$89K

Through June 30, 2026

On the November ballot

Bonck faces Melissa McDonough for this seat on November 3, 2026.

Jon Bonckthis pageRepublican · $1.6MMelissa McDonoughDemocrat · $67K

The ballot as filed by the nominee source, recorded August 27, 2026, not a prediction. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.

The whole race

Where the money comes from

2%from small donors
Small donors
2%$26K
Large donors
60%$988K
PACs
11%$173K
Party
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Self-funding
21%$351K
Other
6%$105K

Separately, $691K 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, 2026In 10 weeks

Register 30 days before the election.

All dates and rules

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.

Against the field for this seat

Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, in ballot order, not money order.

Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. Showing 7 of 9 funded campaigns; every filing is on the race page.

The whole race

Spending to support them

$647K
  • Defend American Jobs$348K
    Cryptocurrency industry (Republican-directed)
  • Club for Growth Action$280K
    Anti-tax, free-market conservative
  • Club for Growth PAC$14K
    Anti-tax, free-market conservative
  • Senate Conservatives Fund$5K

Spending to oppose them

$44K
  • Fight to Win America$27K
  • A Better Majority PAC$17K
How these directions are decided

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC. 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 Bonck's campaign says it would work on.

The priorities Bonck's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.

  • “A True Servant Leader for Tx-38”
  • “Nature's Symphony”
  • “Faces of Humanity”
  • “Sands of Time”
  • “Secure the Border”
  • “Protect Life”
  • “Defend Our Kids”
  • “Protect the Second Amendment”
  • “Defend Religious Liberty”
  • “Cut the Spending”
  • “Stand with Trump”
  • “Protect Medical Freedom”

Quoted from jonbonck.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

Bonck has not held this office, so there is no federal voting record, no cosponsorships and no committee service to report.

That absence is not a position for or against anything; it is what a first federal campaign looks like in the public record.

Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Portrait: Campaign photo, campaign's own youtube account, linked from the FEC-filed campaign site (reference use, public og:image). Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.