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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Bachelor's Degree or Higher: 19.3% (national avg. 33.7%)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership Rate: 67.0%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: EVEN (2024); D+9 (2022)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Foreign-Born Population Share: 22% (171,000 residents)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic/Latino Population Share: 90.6%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Population (2024 ACS): 778,225
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty Rate: 22.2% (LegisLetter); 26.1% (DataUSA 2024)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median Household Income: $53,104 (ACS 2024); $51,228 (Census 2023)
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Texas Proposition 11 — Increase Homestead Exemption for Seniors and Disabled to $200,000 (2025) — passed, margin 88% Yes to 12% No (statewide, preliminary)
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Texas Proposition 4 — $18 Billion Property Tax Relief (Constitutional Amendment) (2023) — passed, margin 83% Yes to 17% No (statewide)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (share 0.05)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 92 - Public Administration (share 0.07)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 44-45 - Retail Trade (share 0.12)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 61 - Educational Services (share 0.12)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 - Health Care and Social Assistance (share 0.18)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Texas Southmost College (1500 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Port of Brownsville (2000 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Brownsville Independent School District (2500 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Valley Baptist Medical Center (Brownsville/Harlingen) (3000 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) (5000 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] District summary: Texas's 34th Congressional District stretches along the Gulf Coast from Brownsville on the U.S.-Mexico border northward to the outskirts of Corpus Christi, encompassing parts of Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Kleberg, and Willacy counties. The district is 90.3% Hispanic — one of the most heavily Latino districts in the nation — with a median age of 31.3 (significantly younger than the national median). Median household income is approximately $53,104, well below the national median, and the poverty rate is 22.2%-26.1%, more than double the national average. Only 19.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. The Cook PVI shifted from D+9 to EVEN after the 2020 redistricting, and the district voted for Trump in 2024 while simultaneously electing a Democrat to Congress — making it one of only 13 such split-ticket districts nationally. The economy is anchored in healthcare, education, retail, agriculture ($2.6 billion annually), and cross-border trade with Mexico. Major cities include Brownsville, McAllen, Harlingen, and Kingsville.
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Voted yea on H.R. 7521 (118th Congress) (Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (TikTok Divestiture)) on 2024-03-13: Gonzalez voted Yea on the TikTok divestiture bill (352-65 bipartisan). While not a close vote, Gonzalez broke from many progressive House Democrats and Hispanic Caucus colleagues concerned about free-speech implications. TikTok has exceptionally high usage rates among Hispanic users, who are 90.3% of his constituency. No identifiable donor pressure is evident from his top contributor list on this issue.
Date: 2024-03-13
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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Voted nay on H.R. 5585 (118th Congress) (Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act) on 2024-01-30: Gonzalez voted Nay on a border-enforcement bill named for a Border Patrol agent killed in a high-speed chase in his own district (Rio Grande Valley). The bill would impose life sentences for deaths caused during border-adjacent vehicle pursuits. 154 Democrats opposed it; 56 supported it. Gonzalez's Nay vote — against a bill bearing the name of a fallen agent from his district — became a 2024 campaign attack line for his Republican challenger Mayra Flores and the NRCC. The vote illustrates the acute cross-pressure of representing a border district: law-enforcement symbolism vs. civil-liberties and immigrant-community concerns.
Date: 2024-01-30
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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Voted nay on H.R. 1 (119th Congress) (One Big Beautiful Bill Act (FY2025 Budget Reconciliation)) on 2025-07-03: Gonzalez voted Nay alongside every Democrat against the GOP reconciliation bill, which he called 'One Big Betrayal.' His district has the highest SNAP utilization rate in Texas, a 22.2% poverty rate, and 100,000+ South Texans on Medicaid/ACA — all programs the bill cut. While the vote was party-line (218-214), Gonzalez's public opposition was notably vocal: he held a press conference with union members calling the bill 'cruel' and a giveaway to the 'ultra-rich.' Constituent interest strongly opposed the bill, but his Trump+ district's Republican lean created significant electoral cross-pressure.
Date: 2025-07-03
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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Voted nay on H.R. 22 (119th Congress) (SAVE Act of 2025) on 2025-04-10: Ten months after voting Yea on the identical bill, Gonzalez voted Nay — a complete reversal on the same policy question (same statutory hook, same enforcement mechanism, same population affected). He was one of only two Democrats (with Rep. Don Davis) who supported the 2024 version but opposed the 2025 version. The NRCC immediately attacked the flip. Gonzalez's own office offered no public explanation for the change.
Date: 2025-04-10
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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Voted yea on H.R. 8281 (118th Congress) (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act of 2024) on 2024-07-10: Gonzalez was one of only 5 House Democrats out of 198 voting to support proof-of-citizenship voting requirements — a 97.5% party-defection rate. All 198 other Democrats voted Nay. The vote aligned with Gonzalez's positioning as a conservative Blue Dog Democrat in a Trump-won district, but critics argued the documentation requirements would disproportionately burden immigrant and Hispanic voters — the core of his own constituency.
Date: 2024-07-10
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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Voted yea on H.R. 29 (Laken Riley Act) on 2025-01-07: Gonzalez was one of only 48 House Democrats to join all 216 Republicans in passing a bill requiring mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes. His district is 90.3% Hispanic, 22% foreign-born, and includes mixed-status families — immigration advocates protested outside his Brownsville office arguing the vote 'endangers the community he represents.' The district's demographic profile and the intensity of constituent opposition create a sharp cross-pressure: Gonzalez balanced Trump-district electoral vulnerability against the material interests of his majority-Hispanic, immigrant-heavy constituency.
Date: 2025-01-07
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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[disclosure] The ACLU gave Gonzalez a 100% rating on its most recent legislative scorecard (2021), noting that '9 out of 9 votes matched ACLU positions.'
Date: 2025-02-18
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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[statement] Gonzalez told POLITICO in February 2025: 'I don't listen to the ACLU — I listen to my district, how it feels on the ground,' justifying his Yea vote on the Laken Riley Act.
Date: 2025-02-18
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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[vote] Gonzalez voted Nay on the identical SAVE Act (H.R. 22) on April 10, 2025, joining 207 other Democrats in opposition. The bill passed 220-208.
Date: 2025-04-10
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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[vote] Gonzalez was one of only five House Democrats to vote Yea on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R. 8281) on July 10, 2024, which required documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. The bill passed 221-198.
Date: 2024-07-10
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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Protesters in the Rio Grande Valley demonstrated against Gonzalez in February 2024, citing his acceptance of 'hundreds of thousands of dollars' from AIPAC over multiple election cycles.
Date: 2024-02-13
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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In 2022, Gonzalez appeared to violate the STOCK Act by waiting nearly a year to disclose a mining stock sale, according to an Insider review of his congressional financial disclosure.
Date: 2022-06-29
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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In the 2024 cycle, Pro-Israel contributions to Gonzalez totaled $79,800, making it the fifth-largest sector.
Date: 2024-12-31
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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No Labels Problem Solvers is Gonzalez's top career contributor at $217,149 ($197,149 individuals + $20,000 PAC).
Date: 2024-12-31
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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In the 2025-2026 cycle (coverage through 02/11/2026), Gonzalez raised $1,764,148.65 total, including $973,984.27 from individuals and $789,300.01 from other committees.
Date: 2026-02-11
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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In the 2023-2024 election cycle, Gonzalez's campaign committee reported $3,082,528.29 in total contributions, including $1,562,807.29 from individuals and $1,509,721.00 from other committees (PACs).
Date: 2024-12-31
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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Career total raised (2015-2024): $10,163,663, with $675,269 from the Securities & Investment industry and $576,512 from Oil & Gas.
Date: 2024-12-31
Added: 28 Apr 2026
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