Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez identify as Democrats, and Americans generally respect how people identify. Their party affiliation says Democrat, and nobody needs to deadname either congressman a Republican. Their congressional voting records, unfortunately, keep complicating their promise to democracy. Three neighboring congressional districts in South Texas share similar political terrain. Their populations are overwhelmingly Hispanic, their communities live with the re

The Most Republican Democrat in Congress Faces the Most Democratic Republican in Texas Tano Tijerina spent a decade winning Webb County elections as a Democrat. He won in 2014, 2018, and 2022, each time under the same party banner, each time in a county that had been blue so long that the color felt geological. Then Trump carried Webb County in November 2024, and Tijerina announced on Fox & Friends that he had always been a conservative and that the Democratic Party lost him