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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Chelsey Hockett

- Your US Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Texas currently has 36 US Representatives.
- US Representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become national law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain policy areas, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the Speaker of the House or Majority/Minority Leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms. To hold this office, a candidate must be a legal resident of Texas for at least seven years before their election. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.