Gretel Enck | 2026 candidate for Texas’ 23rd Congressional District

Gretel Enck is originally from rural New York. She earned a bachelor's degree in broadcasting and communications from Boston University and a master’s degree in environmental policy from the University of Denver. Gretel lives in Marfa, Texas.

Gretel previously worked as a federal employee with the National Park Service. She also served in the Peace Corps.

Gretel's campaign for the U.S. House to represent Texas’ 23rd Congressional District is her first run for public office.

Supports policies that make it easier for small businesses to start, grow, and thrive. This includes access to affordable capital, grants for rural entrepreneurs, support for local manufacturers and artisans, and improved broadband and infrastructure so businesses can compete in a modern economy. She believes in strengthening local chambers, business incubators, and community organizations that help small employers succeed.

Supports small businesses by expanding access to affordable capital, rural grants, and modern infrastructure like broadband, while strengthening local manufacturers, entrepreneurs, chambers, and business incubators so communities can grow and compete.

Supports programs that help family agricultural operations manage rising costs, conserve water, adapt to a changing climate, and stay profitable without sacrificing their land or way of life.

Supports raising wages, expanding workforce training and apprenticeships, and creating jobs through investments in infrastructure, clean energy, and resilient communities.

Supports policies that hold corporations accountable, protect consumers, and prevent price gouging.

- Supports small businesses by expanding access to affordable capital, rural grants, and modern infrastructure like broadband, while strengthening local manufacturers, entrepreneurs, chambers, and business incubators so communities can grow and compete.
- Supports programs that help family agricultural operations manage rising costs, conserve water, adapt to a changing climate, and stay profitable without sacrificing their land or way of life.
- Supports raising wages, expanding workforce training and apprenticeships, and creating jobs through investments in infrastructure, clean energy, and resilient communities.
- Supports policies that hold corporations accountable, protect consumers, and prevent price gouging.

Economy

Opposes weakening public institutions that provide essential services and community stability and believes government must maintain funding for agencies that protect communities.

- Opposes weakening public institutions that provide essential services and community stability and believes government must maintain funding for agencies that protect communities.

Public Safety

Supports expanding Medicaid and strengthening Medicare.

Prioritizes improving access to primary care, mental health care, reproductive health care, and preventive services.

Believes healthcare costs should not burden individuals financially.

- Supports expanding Medicaid and strengthening Medicare.
- Prioritizes improving access to primary care, mental health care, reproductive health care, and preventive services.
- Believes healthcare costs should not burden individuals financially.

Healthcare

Supports universal pre-kindergarten and expanded access to post-secondary education.

Believes education access strengthens long-term economic opportunity.

- Supports universal pre-kindergarten and expanded access to post-secondary education.
- Believes education access strengthens long-term economic opportunity.

Education

Supports "restoring strong environmental protections and ensuring public agencies have the resources they need to protect land, water, and wildlife."

Believes investing in public lands and natural resources strengthens economies, expands recreation opportunities, and protects future generations' health and safety.

- Supports "restoring strong environmental protections and ensuring public agencies have the resources they need to protect land, water, and wildlife."
- Believes investing in public lands and natural resources strengthens economies, expands recreation opportunities, and protects future generations' health and safety.

Energy & the Environment

Plans to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution to abolish the electoral college and the presidential pardon power.

- Plans to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution to abolish the electoral college and the presidential pardon power.

Voting & Elections

Supports modernizing the immigration system, reducing backlogs, strengthening legal pathways, improving border infrastructure, and ensuring families are not separated.

Supports comprehensive immigration reform and protecting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

- Supports modernizing the immigration system, reducing backlogs, strengthening legal pathways, improving border infrastructure, and ensuring families are not separated.
- Supports comprehensive immigration reform and protecting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Gretel Enck

Gretel Enck is originally from rural New York. She earned a Bachelor of Science in broadcasting and communications from Boston University and a master’s degree in environmental policy from the University of Denver. Gretel lives in Marfa, Texas.

Supports taxing "large corporations and billionaires" to help small businesses and family farms thrive.

Supports universal pre-kindergarten and expanded access to post-secondary education

Believes education access strengthens long-term economic opportunity

- Supports universal pre-kindergarten and expanded access to post-secondary education
- Believes education access strengthens long-term economic opportunity

As of January 22, 2026, Gretel Enck’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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