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2026 candidates we're tracking in TX-23
Katy Padilla Stout
Top priorities
- Cost of living
- Universal pre-K and public education
- Healthcare
Per the campaign site.
About Katy Padilla Stout
Katy Padilla Stout is an attorney and former Northside ISD elementary school teacher running for Texas's 23rd Congressional District, per the campaign site. She practices child welfare and education law at her family's firm in Carrizo Springs and has served on the Bexar County Child Welfare Board since 2017, per the campaign site.
Brandon Herrera
Top priorities
- The Second Amendment
- Limiting federal power
- Border security
Per the campaign site.
About Brandon Herrera
Herrera is an entrepreneur running for Congress in Texas's 23rd District, per the campaign site. The campaign site says Herrera built a firearm manufacturing business and has focused on firearm safety and Second Amendment advocacy, per the campaign site.
Ben Mendoza
Top priorities
- Addressing high taxes, vagrancy, and crime in District 2
- Reopening parks and maintaining streets
- Creating a citizen police commission to oversee police hiring and firing
Per the campaign site.
About Ben Mendoza
Mediator, running as the Independent candidate in this district, per the occupation recorded on the Texas Secretary of State's certified candidate filing. No campaign website was found as of September 3, 2026; the filing is the only verifiable source for Ben Mendoza.
About this race
Texas's 23rd Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Texas primary is Tuesday, March 3, 2026 (runoff Tuesday, May 26, 2026 if needed), and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.