Texas is divided into 38 areas called districts, each with about 800,000 people. Every two years your district elects one U.S. Representative — one of 435 in Washington, and the only one who answers to you. They vote on laws that touch your health care, your taxes and your rights.
The Democratic candidate
Tanya Lloyd
DemocratAbout Tanya
Lloyd grew up on 45 acres outside Lockhart in a house her family built with their own hands, went back to school at 33 to become a teacher, and has spent nearly twenty years in the poorest classrooms in rural Texas. Her line: it's hard to pull yourself up by your bootstraps "when you only have flip-flops."
She's a kindergarten teacher in Lockhart ISD today. Before teaching she worked at car dealerships, in accounting and in real estate; a high-risk pregnancy showed her how thin health care gets for women out here. She's running on what she calls an American Rural Revival — the rural hospitals closing, the schools starved of funding, the cost of just living — against a four-term Republican, Michael Cloud, who's voted with the party line since a 2018 special election.
Also on the ballot
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Michael CloudAbout Michael
He ran a small media company, directed communications at a church in Victoria, and won a special election to Congress in 2018. He's been in Washington ever since.
Cloud graduated from Oral Roberts University, where he ran cross country and track, before building a media business in South Texas. A member of the House Freedom Caucus board of directors, he sits on the Appropriations Committee and the House DOGE Committee.
Dan McQueenAbout Dan
McQueen was elected mayor of Corpus Christi in 2016 and quit 37 days later in an explosive Facebook post, after being embroiled in controversy after controversy — unpaid taxes, a college degree that didn't check out, and a $61,000-a-year chief-of-staff job he handed to his live-in girlfriend.
A Navy veteran and contractor from Nueces County, he made an unsuccessful run for Congress in a different district in 2022, and is on the ballot this time as an independent. He has no campaign website.
Where to vote
Hays County uses vote centers — any registered Hays County voter can vote at any open location in the county. Locations and hours by city: