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Carlos Quintanilla (Texas) - Ballotpedia

Carlos ran for and lost the race for the United States House, Texas District 33 in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024.

Supports seeking federal economic development funds and tax credits for the district.

Supports working with major companies and local municipalities to secure higher paying jobs and increase the local tax base.

Believes in working with major companies and local municipalities to secure higher-paying jobs and increase the local tax base.

Supports funding job training and continuing education to improve quality of life and reduce crime.

Wants to fund job training and continuing education to improve the quality of life and reduce crime.

Believes the 33rd congressional district has been "largely overlooked" in comparison to the rest of North Texas in terms of economic development.

Thinks the district has been "largely overlooked" in comparison to the rest of North Texas in terms of economic development.

Supports government measures that aim to help small businesses.

- Supports seeking federal economic development funds and tax credits for the district.
- Believes in working with major companies and local municipalities to secure higher-paying jobs and increase the local tax base.
- Wants to fund job training and continuing education to improve the quality of life and reduce crime.
- Thinks the district has been "largely overlooked" in comparison to the rest of North Texas in terms of economic development.
- Supports government measures that aim to help small businesses.
- Proposes a $20 per hour minimum wage.

Economy

Wants rehabilitation for all minors who are caught with any kind of drugs.

- Wants rehabilitation for all minors who are caught with any kind of drugs.

Public Safety

Supports a national healthcare system that supplements the current healthcare industry to ensure no US citizen is "burdened with the costs of healthcare and job loss related to illness."

Supports a national healthcare system that supplements the current healthcare industry to ensure nobody is "burdened with the costs of healthcare and job loss related to illness."

- Supports a national healthcare system that supplements the current healthcare industry to ensure nobody is "burdened with the costs of healthcare and job loss related to illness."

Healthcare

Advocates for increasing access to sex education, birth control, and health screenings.

Supports increasing educational opportunities for veterans.

- Advocates for increasing access to sex education, birth control, and health screenings.
- Supports increasing educational opportunities for veterans.

Education

Promises to be a "pro environmental" congressman.

- Promises to be a "pro environmental" congressman.

Energy & the Environment

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

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Believes "we should have a secure border, but... [does not] believe in imprisoning innocent people whose only crime is looking for a better life."

- Believes "we should have a secure border, but... [does not] believe in imprisoning innocent people whose only crime is looking for a better life."

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Wants collaboration with major companies and local governments to foster economic growth in the 33rd district, aiming to create higher-paying jobs and expand the local tax base for funding schools and infrastructure.

Supports a national healthcare system that supplements the current healthcare industry to ensure no US citizen is burdened with healthcare costs and job loss due to illness.

Supports funding job training and continuing education.

Colin Allred is from Dallas, Texas. He has a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife, Aly, have two sons.

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Colin Allred is from Dallas. He has a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives with his wife, Aly, and they have two sons.

Colin previously served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Colin previously served as a Texas House of Representative. He served 3 terms from 2019 to 2025. 

Believes in lowering costs and "stop[ing] corrupt politicians like Donald Trump from rigging the economy against hard working Texans."

As a House of Representative, secured over $135 million in federal funding for public transportation, health care, affordable housing, and law enforcement in Texas's 33rd Congressional District.

- Believes in lowering costs and "stop[ing] corrupt politicians like Donald Trump from rigging the economy against hard working Texans."
- As a House of Representative, secured over $135 million in federal funding for public transportation, health care, affordable housing, and law enforcement in Texas's 33rd Congressional District.

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

As a House of Representative, led efforts to open VA hospital facilities in Garland, Dallas, and El Paso.

- As a House of Representative, led efforts to open VA hospital facilities in Garland, Dallas, and El Paso.

Supports voting rights protections to ensure ballot access for all eligible voters.

- Supports voting rights protections to ensure ballot access for all eligible voters.

Supports bipartisan approaches to immigration policy.

- Supports bipartisan approaches to immigration policy.

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Julie Johnson has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from the University of Houston. She lives in Farmers Branch with her wife, Susan Moster, and their two sons, Nicholas and Ben.

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Julie Johnson is originally from Kansas City, Kansas. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the University of Houston. Julie lives with her wife, Susan, and two kids in Farmers Branch, Texas.

Julie is a litigation attorney. Before her election to Congress, she worked in private practice. 

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Congresswoman Julie Johnson | Representing Texas's 32nd District

Julie previously worked as a litigation attorney in private practice.

Julie is currently a U.S. Representative. She was first elected in 2024. Before her election to Congress, Julie served six years in the Texas House of Representatives.

Julie currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Texas District 32. She was first elected in 2024 and is in her first term. Julie previously served in the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 115. She served three terms from 2019 to 2025.

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Supports increased access to and construction of affordable housing.

Plans to address housing discrimination and segregation.

Promises to provide potential homebuyers relief from student and medical debt.

- Supports increased access to and construction of affordable housing.
- Plans to address housing discrimination and segregation.
- Promises to provide potential homebuyers relief from student and medical debt.

Supports gun control, promising to raising the purchase age.

Plans to help prevent individuals at risk of harming others from possessing a gun.

- Supports gun control, promising to raising the purchase age.
- Plans to vote for safe gun storage laws.
- Plans to help prevent individuals at risk of harming others from possessing a gun.

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As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, voted against state's abortion ban, abortion bounty law, and funding fake women's clinics designed to prevent abortions.

As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, authored bills to protect pharmacists prescribing abortion medication, increasing prescriptions from 3 months to 12, and ending state sales tax on feminine hygiene products.

Supports reducing prior-authorization requirements to ensure timely access to life-saving medications for Texans.

Supports expanding Medicaid access, co-sponsoring Medicare for All.

Believes healthcare should be more expansive than it currently is, promising to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.

Supports protecting the Affordable Care Act.

Supports decriminalizing and legalizing cannabis, including to help veterans with PTSD.

- As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, voted against state's abortion ban, abortion bounty law, and funding fake women's clinics designed to prevent abortions.
- As a member of the Texas House of Representatives, authored bills to protect pharmacists prescribing abortion medication, increasing prescriptions from 3 months to 12, and ending state sales tax on feminine hygiene products.
- Supports reducing prior-authorization requirements to ensure timely access to life-saving medications for Texans.
- Supports expanding Medicaid access, co-sponsoring Medicare for All.
- Believes healthcare should be more expansive than it currently is, promising to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.
- Supports protecting the Affordable Care Act.
- Supports decriminalizing and legalizing cannabis, including to help veterans with PTSD.

Supported increased teacher pay while reducing class sizes.

- Supported increased teacher pay while reducing class sizes.

Advocated for further development of carbon recapture technology.

- Advocated for further development of carbon recapture technology.

Supported voting for the Freedom to Vote Act, which addressed "voting rights reforms, campaign finance reform, and safeguarding the integrity of our elections."

- Supported voting for the Freedom to Vote Act, which addressed "voting rights reforms, campaign finance reform, and safeguarding the integrity of our elections."

Believes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is "exceeding their authority in so many situations."

Opposed immigration bills that would have denied due process to anyone detained.

Supports protections for LGBTQ+ service members and veterans.

- Believes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is "exceeding their authority in so many situations."
- Opposed immigration bills that would have denied due process to anyone detained.
- Supports protections for LGBTQ+ service members and veterans.

Julie Johnson

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

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Zeeshan Hafeez is from Texas. He has a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from the New College of Florida, a master's degree in business administration from the University of Virginia, and a law degree from Georgetown University. He has three children with his wife.

Zeeshan's campaign for U.S. representative for Texas' 33rd District is his first run for public office.

Zeeshan currently works as a data cloud executive at Salesforce, co-founder and chairman of WaveHR, and founder of CareerNetwork.co. He previously worked as the chief revenue officer at VeeOne Health, as an executive at Microsoft and Google, and for the Harrison Institute of Public Policy.

Supports increasing the minimum wage and "[i]nvesting in local jobs, infrastructure, and clean energy."

Supports increasing Social Security benefits by ending the cap on payroll taxes.

Supports rent control, increasing housing construction, and reforming zoning practices.

- Supports increasing the minimum wage and "[i]nvesting in local jobs, infrastructure, and clean energy."
- Supports increasing Social Security benefits by ending the cap on payroll taxes.
- Supports rent control, increasing housing construction, and reforming zoning practices.
- Supports organized labor.

Supports reducing surveillance powers and repealing the USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act.

- Supports reducing surveillance powers and repealing the USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act.

Supports universal healthcare through. Medicare for all and reducing the cost of prescription drug prices.

- Supports universal healthcare through. Medicare for all and reducing the cost of prescription drug prices.

- Supports increasing teacher pay.
- Opposes for-profit education financing.

Opposes subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

Supports protecting communities from pollution.

- Opposes subsidies to fossil fuel companies.
- Supports protecting communities from pollution.

Supports term limits for members of Congress and banning PACs (political action committees).

- Supports term limits for members of Congress and banning PACs (political action committees).

Supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and closing for-profit detention centers.

Supports creating "a clear path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients."

Supports increasing healthcare, housing, and support for veterans.

Supports a diplomacy-first foreign policy that prioritizes human rights.

- Supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and closing for-profit detention centers.
- Supports creating "a clear path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients."
- Supports increasing healthcare, housing, and support for veterans.
- Supports a ceasefire in Gaza.
- Supports a diplomacy-first foreign policy that prioritizes human rights.

Zeeshan Hafeez

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- US Representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become national law.
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