Alex Mealer is from the United States Military Academy. She has a law degree and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. She and her husband, Clay, have been married for over 17 years and have two children. They are members of Second Baptist Church.

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Alex Mealer earned a bachelor's degree in international & strategic history from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School, and a law degree from the Harvard Law School. She lives with her husband, Clay, and two kids in Houston, Texas and attend Second Baptist Church.

Alex is a vice president at a private financial institution. She previously worked as an energy finance executive and an oil and gas investment banker. Before that, she served as an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the U.S. Army.

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Alex previously worked as the vice president and associate of energy services investment banking for Wells Fargo. She also worked as an associate of energy and power investment banking for Credit Suisse and on special projects for Rowan Companies. Alex served in the U.S. Army as a captain for five years.

Alex previously ran for Harris County judge in 2022 but did not win.

Alex previously ran for Harris County judge in 2022, but did not win.

Believes in advocating for crucial infrastructure projects to protect and grow the Houston Ship Channel and Port Houston, which are vital to Texas' economy.

Believes in advocating for crucial infrastructure projects to protect and grow the Houston Ship Channel and Port Houston while keeping thousands of jobs available.

Committed to ensuring the U.S. is leading the artificial intelligence race by protecting sensitive American data, securing AI research and development facilities, and investing the energy and infrastructure to sustain this lead.

Supports AI safeguards, including rigorous safety reviews, transparency when AI is used to impersonate humans, and protections against non-consensual deepfakes and digital exploitation.

- Believes in advocating for crucial infrastructure projects to protect and grow the Houston Ship Channel and Port Houston while keeping thousands of jobs available.
- Committed to ensuring the U.S. is leading the artificial intelligence race by protecting sensitive American data, securing AI research and development facilities, and investing the energy and infrastructure to sustain this lead.
- Supports AI safeguards, including rigorous safety reviews, transparency when AI is used to impersonate humans, and protections against non-consensual deepfakes and digital exploitation.

Economy

Supports law enforcement and is committed to making cities safe again.

Supports law enforcement to "make our cities safe again."

- Supports law enforcement to "make our cities safe again."

Public Safety

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

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Plans to lead delegation of local leaders to get funding for flood mitigation projects around Lake Houston.

- Plans to lead delegation of local leaders to get funding for flood mitigation projects around Lake Houston.

Energy & the Environment

Believes elections should be easy to vote and hard to cheat, advocating for election integrity legislation with strong safeguards.

Believes elections should be "easy to vote and hard to cheat", advocating for election integrity legislation with strong safeguards.

- Believes elections should be "easy to vote and hard to cheat", advocating for election integrity legislation with strong safeguards.

Voting & Elections

Supports securing the border and leveraging federal resources to assist state and local law enforcement in combating cartel activity.

- Supports securing the border and leveraging federal resources to assist state and local law enforcement in combating cartel activity.

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Briscoe Cain is from Harris County, Texas. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston and a law degree from South Texas College of Law. He is married to his wife, Bergundi, and they have five sons together. The Cain family worships at Faith Family Church in Baytown.

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Briscoe Cain is from Harris County. He has a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Houston-Downtown and a law degree from South Texas College of Law. He is married to his wife, Bergundi, and has five children, and attend Faith Family Church.

Briscoe works as an attorney at his own law firm, and as an attorney for an anti-abortion group.

Briscoe is currently a Texas state representative.

Briscoe currently serves as the representative for Texas House of Representatives District 128. He was first elected in 2016, and is serving his fifth term.

Supports the Texas oil and gas industry as a key economic driver for families in the region.

Supports making America a global leader in crypto innovation by ending regulatory overreach and promoting the digital economy.

Supports "making America a global leader in crypto innovation."

- Supports the Texas oil and gas industry.
- Supports "making America a global leader in crypto innovation."

Opposes red flag laws and advocates for Second Amendment rights.

Opposes abortion access and plans to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates in Texas.

Opposes access to abortion and funding Planned Parenthood.

Opposes transgender-inclusive policies in sports, specifically preventing biological males from competing against girls and women in high school and collegiate athletics.

Opposes transgender-inclusive policies in sports.

- Opposes access to abortion and funding Planned Parenthood.
- Opposes transgender-inclusive policies in sports.

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

Opposes policies favoring wind and solar energy over traditional energy sources, asserting that "oil and gas is king in Texas" and advocating for job opportunities in the fossil fuel industry.

Opposes policies favoring wind and solar energy over traditional energy sources, asserting that "oil and gas is king in Texas."

- Opposes policies favoring wind and solar energy over traditional energy sources, asserting that "oil and gas is king in Texas."

Supports legislation to ban sanctuary cities, a $1.5 billion investment in border wall construction, and property tax cuts for Texans.

Supports legislation to ban cities prohibiting local police and government officials from enforcing federal immigration laws.

Supports increasing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), expanding deportation operations, and constructing a border wall.

- Supports legislation to ban cities prohibiting local police and government officials from enforcing federal immigration laws.
- Supports increasing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), expanding deportation operations, and constructing a border wall.

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Supports the oil and gas sector as a vital part of Texas and America's economy, advocating for continued production, refining, and export of energy resources.

Supports legislation regulating natural gas systems, protecting fossil fuel producers, and opposing federal overregulation to maintain Texas' energy independence.

Opposes social transitioning of children and supports legislation to prevent teachers from using incorrect names or pronouns without parental consent.

Crystal De León Sarmiento is a wife and mother of five.

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Crystal is the founder and chief executive officer of a business and leadership development company, a role she has held for five years. She previously worked in the sales industry for 12 years.

Crystal De León Sarmiento is currently a member of the Manvel City Council and serves as Mayor Pro-Tem.

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Crystal is currently a member of the Manvel City Council and serves as Mayor Pro-Tem.

Supports reducing red tape and taxes to empower small businesses.

Supports cutting hidden fees, opening supply chains, and boosting energy reliability to lower bills.

Wants to "cut hidden fees, open up supply chains, and boost energy reliability to lower bills."

Supports federal reforms to speed up small-dollar loans, reduce paperwork, and protect Main Street from junk fees.

Supports federal reforms to "speed up small-dollar loans, reduce paperwork, and protect Main Street from junk fees."

Supports expanding apprenticeships, skills grants, and pathways tied to port, energy, health care, and advanced manufacturing.

- Supports reducing red tape and taxes to empower small businesses.
- Wants to "cut hidden fees, open up supply chains, and boost energy reliability to lower bills."
- Supports federal reforms to "speed up small-dollar loans, reduce paperwork, and protect Main Street from junk fees."
- Supports expanding apprenticeships, skills grants, and pathways tied to port, energy, health care, and advanced manufacturing.

Claims to be a strong, consistent supporter of law enforcement.

- Claims to be a strong, consistent supporter of law enforcement.

As of January 22, 2026, Crystal Deleón Sarmiento’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Advocates for securing infrastructure funding with local accountability to prevent tax increases and flooding issues.

Advocates for securing infrastructure funding with "local accountability" to prevent tax increases and flooding issues.

- Advocates for securing infrastructure funding with "local accountability" to prevent tax increases and flooding issues.

Supports enacting term limits for public service.

Supports enacting term limits for elected officials.

- Supports enacting term limits for elected officials.

Promises to use resources to "fight fentanyl and trafficking."

- Promises to use resources to "fight fentanyl and trafficking."

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Dan Mims is from Channelview, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University. He and his wife, Mary, have raised their family in southeast Texas, where he remains active as a husband, father, grandfather, and community leader.

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Dan Mims is from Channelview, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University. He lives with his wife, Mary, in Channelview, Texas.

Dan is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the San Jacinto College District. He has held this position since 2018. He previously served as the chief executive officer of the San Jacinto College District. He also served as the chief executive officer of the San Jacinto College District.

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Dan currently serves as the Western Chair of the Association of Community College Trustees Board of Directors. He previously served as the president of Mims Investment, Inc, a property and cold storage logistics company. Dan also worked as the president of Mims Warehouse Solutions, and the vice president and president of Mims Meat Company.

Dan is currently a member of the San Jacinto College Board of Trustees. He has served on the board for 22 years.

Dan's campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Texas's District 9 is his first run for public office.

Supports cutting bureaucracy and taxes to help small businesses succeed.

- Supports cutting bureaucracy and taxes to help small businesses succeed.

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

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

Opposes the participation of transgender athletes in girls' sports.

- Supports school voucher programs that allow parents to use public funds to enroll their children in schools beyond their local options, including private schools.
- Opposes the participation of transgender athletes in girls' sports.

Supports term limits for Congress members.

Signed the "Term Limits on Congress" pledge to cosponsor and vote for an U.S. Term Limits amendment for congressmen to serve no more than three House of Representative terms and two Senate terms.

- Signed the "Term Limits on Congress" pledge to cosponsor and vote for an U.S. Term Limits amendment for congressmen to serve no more than three House of Representative terms and two Senate terms.

Promises to reduce undocumented immigration through border security.

- Promises to reduce undocumented immigration through border security.

Dan Mims

Dwayne Stovall is a husband and father of three.

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Dwayne has more than 25 years of experience in the highway, bridge construction, and oilfield services industry

Dwayne Stovall previously ran for U.S. House to represent Texas' 9th Congressional District in 2020 and did not win.

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Dwayne Stovall previously ran for the United States House in Texas's 9th Congressional District in 2020 and did not win. He also ran for a United States Senate seat in Texas in 2014 but lost, and for the United States House in Texas's 18th Congressional District in 2012 but lost. 

Supports protecting farmers from corporate influence in agriculture, advocating for fair distribution of subsidies, and addressing rising costs that threaten family farms.

Supports protecting farmers from corporate influence.

Supports accelerating deregulation to reduce costs and address government spending and debt issues.

Wants to accelerate deregulation to reduce costs and address government spending and debt.

Supports a ten-year moratorium on immigration and work visas, citing concerns about economic damage and cultural misalignment due to current immigration policies.

Wants a ten-year moratorium on immigration and work visas, citing concerns about economic damage and cultural misalignment.

Believes we waste resources accommodating non-English speakers and advocates for implementing an English Only policy.

Wants to implement an "English only policy" because he believes too many resources are spent "trying to accommodate every individual from every country in the world."

- Supports protecting farmers from corporate influence.
- Wants to accelerate deregulation to reduce costs and address government spending and debt.
- Wants a ten-year moratorium on immigration and work visas, citing concerns about economic damage and cultural misalignment.
- Wants to implement an "English only policy" because he believes too many resources are spent "trying to accommodate every individual from every country in the world."

Believes no non citizen should hold a commercial drivers liscense becasue "they are making the roads less safe."

- Believes no non citizen should hold a commercial drivers liscense becasue "they are making the roads less safe."

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

Supports term limits and emphasizes understanding the limitations of government authority.

Wants only those whose parents were both born in the United States to hold any public office to avoid "misplaced loyalties of any kind."

- Seeks term limits for elected officials.
- Wants only those whose parents were both born in the United States to hold any public office to avoid "misplaced loyalties of any kind."

Wants to place a ten-year moratorium on immigration because he believes immigrants  are responsible for "damage to our economy [that] has been massive and damage to our culture has been even worse."

Believes the United States government "has forced us to accept "any culture" against our will."

- Wants to place a ten-year moratorium on immigration because he believes immigrants  are responsible for "damage to our economy [that] has been massive and damage to our culture has been even worse."
- Believes the United States government "has forced us to accept "any culture" against our will."

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Jaimy Blanco earned her bachelor’s degree in theology and biblical studies from Life Purpose Institute. She has four children.

Jaimy was the founder and owner of Visions Property Management and Investments, a Texas-based real estate firm, a role she has held for 12 years. 

Jaimy Annette Zoboulikos-Blanco previously ran for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 29th Congressional District in 2018 and did not win.

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Jaimy previously ran for the United States House to represent Texas' 29th Congressional District in 2018, 2020, and 2022 and did not win.

Supports working with businesses to stimulate job creation in District 29, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and COVID-19.

Believes in working with businesses to stimulate job creation.

Supports a balanced budget and intends to work for a balanced budget amendment, opposing wasteful spending and continuous resolutions.

Supports a balanced budget and intends to work for a balanced budget amendment, opposing "wasteful spending" and continuous resolutions.

Supports Opportunity Zones to enhance economic development.

Wants to create Opportunity Zones to enhance economic development.

Believes "our families are being crushed by rising prices of food, housing, and essentials."

Opposes "socialist policies that punish success and reward dependency."

Encourages entrepreneurship and homeownership so families can build "real wealth."

- Believes in working with businesses to stimulate job creation.
- Supports a balanced budget and intends to work for a balanced budget amendment, opposing "wasteful spending" and continuous resolutions.
- Wants to create Opportunity Zones to enhance economic development.
- Believes "our families are being crushed by rising prices of food, housing, and essentials."
- Opposes "socialist policies that punish success and reward dependency."
- Encourages entrepreneurship and homeownership so families can build "real wealth."

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Supports the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms without infringement.

Supports addressing human trafficking as a significant issue in Houston.

Wants to prioritize curbing human trafficking.

Seeks to end "soft-on-crime policies that put families in danger."

- Opposes gun control measures.
- Wants to prioritize curbing human trafficking.
- Seeks to end "soft-on-crime policies that put families in danger."

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Opposes abortion access and supports the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

Supports working with the private sector to lower prescription drug prices and protect pre-existing conditions without implementing government-run healthcare.

- Opposes abortion access.
- Supports working with the private sector to lower prescription drug prices and protect pre-existing conditions without implementing government-run healthcare.

Wants to remove "woke, anti-American content from classrooms."

Seeks to mandate faith and civics education in schools "so our children learn truth," while also allowing people to worship freely and live according to their values without state interference.

- Wants to remove "woke, anti-American content from classrooms."
- Seeks to mandate faith and civics education in schools "so our children learn truth," while also allowing people to worship freely and live according to their values without state interference.

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

Supports "finishing the wall and ending the Biden administration’s open-border disaster."

Believes in deporting "criminal aliens and restoring law and order in our cities."

- Supports "finishing the wall and ending the Biden administration’s open-border disaster."
- Believes in deporting "criminal aliens and restoring law and order in our cities."

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Supports law enforcement as heroes who keep communities safe.

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Michael A. Curran has bachelor's degrees in biology and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, and a doctorate in immunology from Stanford University.

Michael currently works as a professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow in immunology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Curran's campaign for Texas US Representative, District 9, is his first time running for public office.

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Michael's campaign for U.S. representative for Texas' 9th District is his first run for public office.

As of January 22, 2026, Michael A. Curran did not have a website or any information online.

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As of January 22, 2026, Michael A. Curran’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Steve Stockman is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has a bachelor 27s degree from the University of Houston.

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Steve Stockman is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has a bachelor 's degree from the University of Houston.

Steve previously served as a U.S. Representative for Texas's 9th and 36th Congressional Districts. He also ran for the U.S. Senate in 2014. 

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Steve previously worked as the director of the campus leadership program for the Leadership Institute, and as an accountant.

Steve previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1997 and again from 2013 to 2015. He ran for re-election in 1996 and 2014 but did not win. He also ran for U.S. Senate in 2014 but did not win.

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Steve previously served as U.S. representative for Texas' 36th District. He served one term from 2013 to 2015. He also served as U.S. Representative for Texas' 9th District. He served one term from 1995 to 1997. Steve ran for U.S. senator from Texas in 2014 and U.S. representative in 2006, 1994, 1992, and 1990, but did not win.

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Supports reducing tax rates and government spending.

- Supports reducing tax rates and government spending.

Supports allowing service members to carry firearms on military bases.

- Opposes gun control.
- Supports allowing service members to carry firearms on military bases.

As a U.S. Representative, proposed the Sanctity of Life Act, which would define human life as beginning at conception.

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

Supports a strong national defense and military.

- Supports a strong national defense and military.
- Opposes providing aid to foreign countries.
- As a U.S. representative, introduced legislation to end birthright citizenship, the constitutional principle that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen.

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- Your U.S. Representative represents the interests of your district in the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Texas currently has 36 U.S. Representatives.
- U.S. 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. U.S. Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.

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