On a 2022 podcast, hosts read Brandon Herrera a news report about a disabled 2-year-old from Greenville, Texas, with his name who was whipped and beaten to death. Herrera, now the Republican nominee in Texas's 23rd District, joked he could have been killed and 'brought back on the third day to be the AK Jesus.'
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
On a podcast, the Republican nominee in Texas's 23rd District joked that unwanted kittens should be handed to a Chinese restaurant so they don't 'go to waste' — the same racist pets-as-food smear Trump used against Haitian immigrants.
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Brandon Herrera goose-stepped on camera to Nazi songs and was condemned by the Republican Jewish Coalition as a "goose-stepping extremist."
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Brandon Herrera, the Trump-endorsed Republican running for Congress in Texas, attacked mothers organizing against school shootings after Sandy Hook by calling their children "cum trophies."
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Brandon Herrera is telling voters he will protect Social Security.
A resurfaced 2024 podcast clip shows Brandon Herrera starting a joke about Tony Stark having Down syndrome and putting on a voice to mock disabled people. Two years later he hosted an 'Autism and Special Needs Forum' for his congressional campaign.
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Brandon Herrera thinks the country "went to shit" after women won the right to vote.
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Brandon Herrera turned the Uvalde massacre into gun content.
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Brandon Herrera is running for Congress to represent San Antonio, but he has nothing but contempt for the people who live there.
Texas Public Radio has repeatedly asked Brandon Herrera for an interview about his past online comments. At a campaign event in a public shopping center, his campaign manager told the reporter to leave.
On a 2023 podcast, while discussing a UFC fighter's argument that women should lose the right to vote, Brandon Herrera said: 'I'm not saying that the 19th amendment was a mistake. I'm just saying the country went to shit after.' He is the Republican nominee in Texas's 23rd District, running against a woman, with Trump and Speaker Johnson behind him.
On a 2022 podcast that resurfaced last week, Brandon Herrera said COVID 'wasn't bad enough' and that a disease that 'unfairly targeted' fat people was something he was 'here for.' In the same interview he said most people in San Antonio are ugly. He is the Republican nominee in a district that includes part of the city.
After reporting resurfaced his boast about owning a 1939 copy of Hitler's manifesto, the Trump-endorsed nominee in Texas's 23rd District made a video — holding the book up to the camera and saying he's read a good chunk of it. A Republican group once called him a 'goose-stepping extremist.'
A chief of staff in a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. A political director whose profile picture showed Hitler's SS. A student outreach recruit who asked whether Jews should be sent to North Korea. A swastika flag in a congressman's office. Eight Republicans on this site, one answer.
A CNN review of Brandon Herrera's videos, podcasts and social media found years of comments mocking women's weight, looks and intelligence. He called them jokes. He is the Republican nominee in a district whose last congressman resigned during a House Ethics investigation into sexual misconduct allegations, and his opponent is a woman.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
Herrera calls himself a millionaire and told the Express-News he's made about $2 million in revenue. His financial disclosure lists $80,000 in earned income and no assets at all. He promised to fix it in July. He still hasn't.
The Speaker campaigned for Herrera at a San Antonio barbecue joint days after another video surfaced. Johnson backed his opponent in 2024 and again this year, Trump's lawyer sent him a cease-and-desist letter in January, and a Republican group ran ads saying he 'does not belong in Congress.' Nothing about the record changed. A seat came open.
A Texas Republican admitted an affair with a staffer who died by suicide, and the Speaker said it wasn't 'time' to talk about resigning. With Max Miller accused of domestic abuse, Johnson says it's 'not my business.' He had no such trouble deciding about Democrats.
A watchdog complaint says Herrera's campaign routed $2.7 million through a shell entity whose two addresses trace back to his own treasurer — a treasurer already fined more than $20,000 and tied to George Santos.
The DCCC added Texas' 23rd to its target list on August 5, citing Brandon Herrera's 'disturbing history of extremism, violence, and antisemitic rhetoric' alongside polling showing Hispanic voters souring on Trump. A seat Republicans have held since 2015 is suddenly on Democrats' target list.
Texas Republicans literally ran away from reporters rather than answer for the Trump-endorsed candidate's remarks about mothers who advocate against gun violence.
Texas congressional candidate Brandon Herrera doubled down on gutting Social Security and shrugged off podcast jokes about killing the elderly — while his campaign site claims he'll defend seniors' benefits.
