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Races in the Lone Star State are among those that will be key to determining which party controls the U.S. House.
To Win Back the House, Democrats Take the Fight to Deep-Red Areas
February 5, 2026Democrats are tapping candidates with unusual résumés — a Tejano recording star, a smokejumper and a fourth-generation farmer — to compete in areas long seen as inhospitable.
Blue Dog PAC Endorses Bobby Pulido and Johnny Garcia in Texas’ 15th and 35th Congressional Districts
January 26, 2026FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 26, 2026
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Today, the Blue Dog PAC announced its endorsement of two stand-out South Texas candidates running for Congress – Bobby Pulido (TX 15) of the Rio Grande Valley and Johnny Garcia (TX-35) in San Antonio. Bobby is a two-time Latin Grammy winner, small business owner, and father who believes in practical solutions, honest leadership, and putting people ahead of party. Johnny Garcia, a law enforcement officer and former SWAT Crisis negotiator, has dedicated his life to serving his community and will bring that same level of commitment and essential de-escalation and mediation skills to Congress.
From New York Times Opinion | By James Pogue
Mr. Pogue, a contributing Opinion writer, has been covering rural America and the West for 15 years.
This essay is the fifth installment in a series on the thinkers, upstarts and ideologues battling for control of the Democratic Party.
In July, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington proposed an amendment to a bill, calling for an inquiry into what she described as a “plague in this country of headlight brightness.”
She introduced the provision in a short speech in which she lapsed into obscenity and suggested that blinding lights on American roads were part of the inexorable deterioration in basic quality of life so many people feel today, implicitly gibed her fellow members for their failures to respond to that feeling and seemed to acknowledge that many of her listeners had heard talk like this before. When a solitary colleague interrupted to clap, she turned and joked, “I’ll give you your $20 later.”
Blue Dog PAC Endorses Fourth Generation Farmer Jamie Ager in Western North Carolina (NC-11)
December 19, 2025FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 19, 2025
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Fairview, NC – Today, the Blue Dog PAC announced its endorsement of Jamie Ager for Congress in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District. Ager is a fourth-generation farmer, business owner, and proud son of Western North Carolina who is running to bring thoughtful, locally rooted leadership to Washington.