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Hook grew up in Corpus Christi with a single mom who lived paycheck to paycheck and never went to college. She became a scientist — a Cornell PhD — and then a federal watchdog who hunted down waste and fraud in the government's own books. Now she's running against a retired Yankee.
She spent three years teaching middle-school science before a decade as a research biologist, then went to Washington twice: once as the science expert in Elizabeth Warren's Senate office, then to the Government Accountability Office, the agency that audits the rest of the government. She moved home to Texas in 2022 and quit that job to run — this is her second try for this seat. Her opponent, Mark Teixeira, is a former Yankees first baseman with Donald Trump's endorsement who wants to ban transgender kids from school sports; the district hasn't sent a Democrat to Congress since 1978.
