Kyle Rable

Kyle Rable is the Democratic nominee for the open West Texas seat in the 19th District. A captain in the U.S. Army Reserve and a Texas Tech Ph.D. candidate who lives in Lubbock, he has served as secretary of the Lubbock County Democratic Party. Local news reports his website's priorities as West Texas farms and rural communities, Medicare and Medicaid, and monopolies.[1][2][3][4]

According to his campaign website, Rable comes from a family of working-class people and immigrants with a military background, and he worked in restaurants and kitchens to support himself through school.[1] He attended the University of Toledo on an Army ROTC scholarship, per his campaign website, and later earned a graduate degree from Bowling Green State University.[5][1] He received a commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and continued serving as an Army officer while earning his master's degree; he is a captain in the Reserve.[5][1][4] He then entered the Ph.D. program at Texas Tech University, where he is described as a Ph.D. candidate.[1][2][4]

Rable's campaign website says he is a member of CWA Local 6186 and that he advocated with the union in Austin against SB17 and SB18 during the 2023 legislative session.[3] He has served as secretary of the Lubbock County Democratic Party, according to KCBD in 2025.[2] He announced his candidacy for Texas's 19th District in May 2025, and as of November 2025 he was the only person to have filed in the Democratic primary.[2][4] According to his campaign website, he lives in Lubbock with his wife, Kristen, their son and two rescue dogs.[1][3]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.