US House, District 23
About this race: A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering all of Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Edwards, Frio, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Kinney, Loving, Medina, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Reeves, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Ward, Winkler and Zavala counties, most of Maverick County, most of El Paso County and part of north-west Bexar County. No candidate on this ballot holds Texas legislative office, so none appears in a 2025 cannabis or hemp roll call. What each candidate has said or answered is listed below in date order, each with its own source.
Which map this is. This seat is drawn on the
120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by
population — 99.9% of it was inside district 23 on the
119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026. These lines barely moved, so the member who holds seat 23 today was elected over
almost exactly this ground.
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Brandon HerreraRepublican
75/100
support for legal access — top band, 67 to 100
thin — one or two records produced this number · 1 of 1 records scored
How this score is worked out
Seven kinds of act move this number, and they do not count equally. A recorded vote
counts 3, and so does authoring a bill or signing an executive action; signing on to
somebody else’s bill counts 2. A statement or a questionnaire answer counts 2 as
well, and an organisational endorsement counts 1. A vote takes its direction from the
bill, whose effect is set out in advance; the rest take it from our reading of what was
said, and each one below shows that reading and the reason for it. Acts shown with no
number were examined and deliberately left out of the arithmetic, with a reason given.
- 2023-07-07 statement — Treats imprisonment for marijuana possession as a thing to criticise, which points away from criminalisation — but it is a single remark made in an argument about firearms, so it is weak evidence and the card says so, counted as +1 at weight 1.2
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Said2023-07-07
Posted on X, replying to the then Vice President’s account during an exchange about firearms legislation: "Tired of your career of locking people up for marijuana possession, so now you want to lock them up for guns now too?"
⚠️The subject of the exchange was gun policy, not cannabis: the remark criticises imprisonment for marijuana possession but sets out no position on what cannabis law should be.
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Federal Election Commission
Commission candidate H4TX23120, filed as
“HERRERA, BRANDON”, principal committee C00844324
(BRANDON HERRERA FOR CONGRESS).
fec.gov
Everything below covers the reporting period that ended
2026-06-30, as filed with the Commission. These figures lag the
filing deadlines: money raised after that date does not appear until the next report is due,
so a recent contribution is not missing, it is not yet reportable.
What we could and could not put a label on
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unclassified
$2,187,860
not matched by any of our patterns · figures cover through 2026-06-30
Fraction classified: 0%. We examined
$2,187,860 — the 93 largest employer groupings
($279,667) and 24 committee contributions
($1,908,194) the Commission shows for this committee — and
matched $0 of it to one of our own patterns.
$2,187,860 is listed above as unclassified.
What that figure is not. $2,187,860 is what we examined,
not everything this campaign raised: the Commission returns the largest employer groupings
rather than every contribution, and contributions too small to be itemised carry no
employer at all. Read the classified fraction as a share of what we looked at.
Any grouping of contributors into an industry is weedvoter’s own classification, applied to employer and committee names exactly as filed. The Commission publishes employers and committees; it never publishes industries. OpenSecrets discontinued its public interface in April 2025, so nothing here is an OpenSecrets classification.
Money received is not a position. Everything on this card is money that changed
hands. It is not evidence that any contribution influenced any decision, nothing on it is
placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive.
For what Brandon Herrera has actually done about cannabis, read the record above on this
page — the roll calls, the bills that carry their name, and the date of each one,
every entry linked to the document it came from. That is the part of this page built to be
judged, and it is the part the score is calculated from. No contribution on this card moves
that score by a cent.