US House, District 26
About this race: A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering all of Cooke County, most of Denton County and most of Wise County. The records below are votes and cosponsorships in Congress, listed in date order, each with its own source.
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120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by
population — 94% of it was inside district 26 on the
119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 13 (5.9%). So where a candidate below is badged as holding seat 26 today, that badge means the
seat number on this ballot — not all of the ground the seat now covers. Your own
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Phil GrayLibertarian
100/100
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.
- 2024-04-21 statement — Platform plank calls the drug war a failure and supports decriminalising use, counted as +2 at weight 1.2
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Said2024-04-21
A campaign platform plank headed "DECRIMINALIZING USE OF DRUGS" — printed in capitals on the page, and quoted here as printed — appears on his candidate profile, reading in part: "The war on drugs has been a complete failure. Millions of lives have been disrupted or lost... Prisons have overflowed with nonviolent offenders." Three limits on this entry: the plank concerns drug policy generally and does not name cannabis; the date is that of the earliest Internet Archive capture containing the text, not a stated publication date; and it is 2024 campaign material, read from a capture of his candidate profile because his campaign domain no longer resolves.
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Who is paying for this campaign
Campaign finance — Federal Election Commission
Commission candidate H6TX01261, filed as
“GRAY, PHIL”.
fec.gov
No amount is printed here, deliberately. This candidate has no principal campaign committee registered for the 2026 cycle, so the Commission holds no money reports for them.
A candidate with no committee has filed no money reports, so there is nothing to show — that is what the filings say, not a gap in our work.
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 Phil Gray 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.