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U.S. House · Texas's 10th District

A redrawn district running from the Austin area northeast toward Bryan-College Station in central Texas.

General election · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

✓ Fact-checked 2026-09-25: 16 claims re-checked against their sources · 3 corrected · 0 removed

A second, independent research pass re-opened every cited source for this race and corrected or removed anything the source didn’t support.

  • Removed fabricated claim that Rourk campaigns on 'bringing federal infrastructure investment to the district for water, roads, broadband and clean-energy infrastructure' — no such priority appears anywhere on her campaign website; her issues page has no mentions of roads, broadband, or infrastructure investment as a policy priority.
  • Rewrote Rourk's 'economic opportunity' priority to match what her site actually says (indexing the minimum wage to cost of living, expanding child care via CCDBG, protecting Social Security) instead of the invented 'dignified retirement' and 'support for small businesses' phrasing.
  • Rewrote Gober's rural-economy priority: his site does not mention farms, ranches, or rural roads; it actually pledges to cut regulations, expand small-business opportunities, and strengthen rural healthcare access, plus AI-infrastructure protections for rural electricity rates and water supplies from data centers.
  • Verified Gober's America PAC, IRS case, and immigration quotes verbatim against his campaign site; verified the primary vote breakdowns (Rourk 3-candidate field, Gober's multi-candidate field) against Ballotpedia.

On the ballot · 2 candidates

Caitlin RourkD

Raised $364K · spent $272K · $92K cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗

Chris GoberR

Raised $2.6M · spent $2.4M · $120K cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗

Where they stand — side by side

Only positions documented in a cited source are shown. Where an officeholder’s recorded votes speak to an issue, the votes set the position (marked “votes”). A dash means we found no clear public position — not that the candidate has none.

ISSUECaitlin Rourk
D
Chris Gober
R
Expand immigration enforcement and deportations—Supports[4]
Raise taxes on high earners or corporationsSupports[3]—
Expand public health coverageSupports[3]—
Raise the minimum wageSupports[3]—
Universal, publicly funded child careSupports[3]—

The candidates, in full

Caitlin Rourk

D

Won the March 3, 2026 Democratic primary

Caitlin Rourk is the Democratic nominee for the open U.S. House seat in Texas's 10th District. An Army veteran and business leader, she is campaigning on healthcare affordability and economic opportunity.[3]

Basic profile — the most important sourced facts we found.

Positions on the issues

  • SupportsExpand public health coverage

    Says she will work to lower drug costs, protect coverage for pre-existing conditions and strengthen the Affordable Care Act.[3]

  • SupportsRaise the minimum wage

    Lists a 'living minimum wage' among her economic priorities.[3]

  • SupportsUniversal, publicly funded child care

    Lists affordable child care among her priorities for the district.[3]

  • SupportsRaise taxes on high earners or corporations

    Says economic policy 'too often' favors the wealthy and well-connected and that she will hold corporations accountable to pay 'their fair share.'[3]

In their words — priorities

  • Affordable, accessible healthcare: lower drug costs, protect coverage for pre-existing conditions, expand mental health care and strengthen the ACA.[3]
  • Economic opportunity: raise and index the federal minimum wage to the cost of living, expand affordable child care, and protect and strengthen Social Security.[3]

Background

  • Army veteran.[3]
  • Worked as a business leader prior to running for Congress.[3]

Campaign money

Raised $364K · spent $272K · $92K cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗

Campaign website ↗Shareable profile page

Chris Gober

R

Won the March 3, 2026 Republican primary

Chris Gober is the Republican nominee for the open U.S. House seat in Texas's 10th District. An attorney who built a national conservative law practice, he previously directed America PAC, a super PAC founded by Elon Musk that supported Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, and describes himself as an 'America First' candidate.[4]

Basic profile — the most important sourced facts we found.

Positions on the issues

  • SupportsExpand immigration enforcement and deportations

    Says he will work with President Trump to 'secure our border and crush the cartels' by enforcing immigration laws and empowering Texas law enforcement.[4]

In their words — priorities

  • Secure the border and reduce illegal immigration, crime and drug trafficking, working with the Trump administration.[4]
  • Oppose what he describes as the 'weaponization' of federal agencies against conservatives.[4]
  • Says he will cut regulations, expand small-business opportunities, and strengthen rural healthcare access for rural Texans; also calls for AI-infrastructure policy that protects rural electricity rates and local water supplies from large data-center projects.[4]

Background

  • Graduated from Texas A&M University and Harvard Law School; worked on national-security and border-security matters at the U.S. Department of Justice before serving as a top lawyer for the Republican Party of Texas.[4]
  • Built a national conservative litigation practice and, in 2024, served as director and chief lawyer for America PAC, which he says deployed nearly $300 million supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign.[4]
  • Represented the IRS-targeting case brought by conservative nonprofit organizations against the agency over its handling of tax-exempt applications, which he says resulted in a ruling against the IRS's rules.[4]

Campaign money

Raised $2.6M · spent $2.4M · $120K cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗

Campaign website ↗Shareable profile page

Research notes & limits

Neither candidate has held elected office, so there is no official voting or legislative record to report.

Sources · 4

Researched 2026-09-25. Green citations are official government records.

  1. 1.United States House of Representatives elections in Texas, 2026 · Ballotpedia · 2026-09-25 Reference
  2. 2.Texas' 10th Congressional District election, 2026 · Ballotpedia · 2026-09-25 Reference
  3. 3.Caitlin Rourk for Congress · Caitlin Rourk campaign website · 2026-09-25 Candidate's own words
  4. 4.Chris Gober for Congress · Chris Gober campaign website · 2026-09-25 Candidate's own words