Chelsey is from Frederick, Maryland. She attended Texas Womans University, where she earned a bachelors degree in 2015. She lives with her children in East Texas.

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Chelsey Hockett is from Frederick, Maryland. Sheared a bachelor's degree in business administration from Texas Woman's University. She lives with her children in East Texas.

Chelsey is a restaurant server. She previously worked for an airline.

Chelsey works as a senior corporate travel consultant for Air Transport International, Inc.

Chelsey's campaign for U.S. representative for Texas' 5th District is her first run for public office.

Supports strengthening unions, raising wages, enforcing labor laws, breaking up corporate monopolies, and holding the ultra-wealthy accountable.

Supports strengthening unions, raising wages, enforcing labor laws, and breaking up monopolies.

Supports protecting the right to organize and stand together at work without retaliation, emphasizing the role of unions in worker protection.

- Supports strengthening unions, raising wages, enforcing labor laws, and breaking up monopolies.
- Supports protecting the right to organize and stand together at work without retaliation, emphasizing the role of unions in worker protection.

Economy

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

Public Safety

Supports Medicare for All and believes healthcare is a public good that should be accessible without fear of medical debt.

Believes healthcare is a public good that should be accessible without fear of medical debt.

Supports Medicare for All, protecting reproductive freedom, expanding maternal and mental health care, strengthening rural hospitals, and ending medical debt.

Supports access to abortion, expanding maternal and mental health care, strengthening rural hospitals, and ending medical debt.

- Believes healthcare is a public good that should be accessible without fear of medical debt.
- Supports access to abortion, expanding maternal and mental health care, strengthening rural hospitals, and ending medical debt.

Healthcare

Opposes voucher schemes that divert funds from public schools to private entities without accountability.

Opposes school voucher programs that allow parents to use public funds to enroll their children in schools beyond their local options, including private schools

Supports making higher education free and affordable, reducing student loan debt, and investing in students and teachers to build a stronger society.

- Opposes school voucher programs that allow parents to use public funds to enroll their children in schools beyond their local options, including private schools
- Supports making higher education free and affordable, reducing student loan debt, and investing in students and teachers to build a stronger society.

Education

For Candidate Chelsey Hockett on Issue energy-and-environment: Supports a Green New Deal framework that invests in clean energy, infrastructure, and union jobs while protecting land and water, holding polluters accountable, and ensuring climate policy prioritizes people and livelihoods over corporate interests.

Supportsinvesting in clean energy, infrastructure, and union jobs while protecting land and water, holding polluters accountable, and prioritizing people and livelihoods over corporate interests.

- Supportsinvesting in clean energy, infrastructure, and union jobs while protecting land and water, holding polluters accountable, and prioritizing people and livelihoods over corporate interests.

Energy & the Environment

Supports protecting and expanding voting rights, ensuring fair and accessible elections, and ending partisan efforts to silence voters. Advocates for overturning Citizens United, strong ethics laws, and limits on money in politics.

Supports protecting and expanding voting rights, ensuring fair and accessible elections, and limiting money in politics.

- Supports protecting and expanding voting rights, ensuring fair and accessible elections, and limiting money in politics.

Voting & Elections

Opposes U.S. funding for Israel's war, supports a free Palestine, and rejects a foreign policy that contributes to war, resource extraction, mass incarceration, and human rights abuses.

Opposes U.S. funding for Israel's war, supports a free Palestine, and rejects foreign policy that contributes to war, resource extraction, mass incarceration, and human rights abuses.

- Opposes U.S. funding for Israel's war, supports a free Palestine, and rejects foreign policy that contributes to war, resource extraction, mass incarceration, and human rights abuses.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Forrest is from Dallas, Texas. He attended Highland Park High School. He has a bachelor’s degree from Rice University. He has a Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. He lives with his family on the family ranch in Kaufman County.

Forrest Lumpkin has a bachelor’s degree from Rice University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. 

Forrest is a retired civil servant at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, where he worked for over 35 years at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. He previously worked at Exxon Production Research Company and at NASA’s Ames Research Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Forrest is retired. He worked for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for over 35 years. 

Forrest Lumpkin's campaign for U.S. House Texas District 5 is his first time running for public office.

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Opposes tariffs, saying they are "a hidden sales tax and are therefore regressive and inflationary in general."

Supports timely passage of appropriations bills to prevent government shutdowns, which he believes cause inefficiency in government operations.

Supports the on-time passage of appropriations bills to prevent government shutdowns.

- Opposes tariffs, saying they are "a hidden sales tax and are therefore regressive and inflationary in general."
- Supports the on-time passage of appropriations bills to prevent government shutdowns.

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

Supports reforming the healthcare system to focus more on preventative measures, such as smoking cessation.

Thinks it is "ridiculous" that the difference between what is billed for health care services and what is paid by insurance companies is "so large."

Wants to make it a priority to "improve access to health care especially in rural areas such as in Anderson, Henderson, Kaufman, and Van Zandt counties where constituents must travel long distances for hospital care."

Believes the recent cuts to the Affordable Care Act are "setting up a spiral of increasing insurance premiums as fewer and fewer individuals are in the pool of insured."

- Supports reforming the healthcare system to focus more on preventative measures, such as smoking cessation.
- Thinks it is "ridiculous" that the difference between what is billed for health care services and what is paid by insurance companies is "so large."
- Wants to make it a priority to "improve access to health care especially in rural areas such as in Anderson, Henderson, Kaufman, and Van Zandt counties where constituents must travel long distances for hospital care."
- Believes the recent cuts to the Affordable Care Act are "setting up a spiral of increasing insurance premiums as fewer and fewer individuals are in the pool of insured."

Supports funding basic research in health and climate science.

Supports funding "basic research" in health and climate science.

- Supports funding "basic research" in health and climate science.

Forrest Lumpkin

Ruth Torres has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Mountain View College and Dallas Baptist University, and a master's degree in international management from Florida International University. She is mother to five children.

Ruth is the chief human resources officer for The HR Doctor, LLC. She is also executive director of Successful Careers. Previously she was an adjunct professor at Miami Dade College and a senior human resources consultant at HR Strategic Consulting.

Ruth previously ran for representative in Texas District 5 in 2022 and 2024, but did not win.

Supports reducing corporate welfare, price-gouging, monopolies, and special interests.

- Supports reducing corporate welfare, price-gouging, monopolies, and special interests.

As of January 22, 2026, Ruth "Truth" Torres’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Supports affordable and accessible healthcare with consumer control, no plan restrictions, and an option for businesses to provide designated funds for benefit plans.

- Supports affordable and accessible healthcare with consumer control, no plan restrictions, and an option for businesses to provide designated funds for benefit plans.

Opposes school vouchers, which are programs and policies that allow families to use public school funds to access schools beyond their local option, including private schools.

- Opposes school vouchers, which are programs and policies that allow families to use public school funds to access schools beyond their local option, including private schools.

Supports fiscal and services accountability for government agencies.

- Supports fiscal and services accountability for government agencies.

Supports term limits, voter rights, and campaign finance reform.

- Supports term limits, voter rights, and campaign finance reform.

Supports a balanced approach to immigration that protects borders, is humane, and aligns with American values.

- Supports a balanced approach to immigration that protects borders, is humane, and aligns with American values.

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