As early voting winds down and Election Day looms on Tuesday in the 2026 Democratic Party runoff in Texas, we stole a few brief moments with Congressman Christian Menefee, endorsee of our board here at Progress Texas in his run to keep the job he won in a special election just a few short months ago to fill an almost-year-long vacancy cruelly engineered by Governor Greg Abbott after the untimely passing of Congressman Sylvester Turner. Congressman Menefee faces fellow Congressman Al Green in the runoff for the Democratic nomination to fill the next two-year term for Houston's CD 18.

Learn more about Congressman Menefee and his campaign at ⁠https://christianmenefee.com/⁠.