The Worst Radical District 23 Has Ever Seen

TX-23 • 2026 General Election

The worst radical District 23 has ever seen.

Katy Stout promoted a drag show to children. She wants Biden’s catch-and-release system back. She attacked tax relief on tips and overtime. These aren’t isolated mistakes. They are Katy Stout’s priorities.

Drag Shows
Promoted drag shows to children.
Katy Stout promoted a four-hour event expressly advertised as all ages and featuring drag performers.
Source: Katy’s Facebook post
See the receipt ↓
Border Security
Catch-and-release over border security
Katy Stout would return to catch-and-release.
Source: Express-News
See the receipt ↓
Taxes
Higher Taxes on Working-Class Americans
Katy Stout attacked tax relief for tipped workers, overtime workers, and seniors, plus work requirements for able-bodied adults.
Source: Katy’s issues page · IRS · CMS
See the receipt ↓

01All-ages drag event · February 25, 2022

Katy Stout promoted drag shows to children.

Four hours. Drag performers. All ages. She posted the flyer herself.

The flyer she posted declared: “AN ALL AGES LGBTQIA CHARITY EVENT.”
The same flyer promised “MANY VENDORS! DRAG PERFORMERS! & MUSIC!!”
Katy’s invitation to the public: “Come out and have a fun time!”
Four hours long — 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Katy Stout posted it herself on February 25, 2022.

Source: Katy’s Facebook post

Close-up of Katy Stout speaking to camera — “Come out and have a fun time!”

The charge

Four hours. Drag performers. All ages. She posted the flyer herself.

Source: Katy’s Facebook post

Primary receipt

Katy’s post. Katy’s invitation. The all-ages flyer.

Displayed uncropped. Katy’s name, the February 25, 2022 date, Katy’s invitation, the “ALL AGES” declaration, the “drag performers” text, and the hours are all on the page. The complete composition is the proof.

Screenshot of Katy Stout’s February 25, 2022 Facebook post above the Love Is Love charity-event flyer. The flyer advertises drag performers, calls the event all ages, and lists a 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. showtime. — Exhibit A — Katy Stout Facebook post and “Love Is Love” flyer, February 25, 2022. Uncropped.

On the flyer Katy posted

“DRAG PERFORMERS”
“AN ALL AGES LGBTQIA CHARITY EVENT”
Four hours. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
She posted it herself.

Katy Stout shrugging during a televised interview

Katy Stout interview graphic: she supports raising the age to purchase an assault rifle because the frontal cortex isn’t done developing

Katy Stout Facebook post promoting an all-ages event featuring drag performers

Source: Katy’s Facebook post · Instagram — “Raise the Age”

Katy won’t answer this

Does she still support bringing children to drag shows?

Source: Katy’s Facebook post

02Catch-and-release

Katy Stout wants Biden’s catch-and-release back

Release first. Rely on an honor system. Hope ICE can find them later.

Katy Stout wearing sunglasses and a Defend the Bend shirt at an outdoor campaign stop — Katy Stout would restore the release system Trump ended

She told the Express-News she would return to Biden-era catch-and-release for asylum seekers.
Release into the country. No detention.
Source: Express-News
President Trump ordered the government to end catch-and-release. Stout wants it back.
He shut it down. She would turn it back on.
Source: White House · Express-News

Stout campaign Facebook post welcoming Trinity Erwin, beside Erwin’s Instagram reading ABOLISH ICE

Campaign payroll

Hired a staffer who posts “ABOLISH ICE.”

Stout’s own Facebook welcomed Trinity Erwin onto the team.
Erwin’s Instagram: “ABOLISH ICE, Democrats shut it down (AND DON’T CAVE).”

Source: Herrera for Congress

Katy won’t answer this

Why does she want to re-open the border?

Source: Express-News · White House

03Taxes, benefits, and the border

Katy Stout attacked the law that cut taxes for workers and paid for the border

No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. No thanks from Katy Stout.

Katy Stout standing at a campaign event — No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. No thanks from Katy Stout.

She called it “billionaire tax cuts.” The same law gave tipped workers a deduction of up to $25,000.
Source: Katy’s issues page · IRS
Overtime workers got a deduction of up to $12,500. Seniors got an additional $6,000.
Source: IRS
USDA says the law strengthens SNAP work requirements, fights fraud and waste, and prevents illegal aliens from receiving SNAP.
Source: USDA · USDA · USDA
It limits full federal Medicaid and CHIP funding to Americans and specified legal residents.
Source: CMS
It requires able-bodied adults on expanded Medicaid to work, study, or volunteer.
Source: CMS
It put $46.55 billion into border barriers, $45 billion into detention, and nearly $30 billion into ICE.
Source: Public Law 119-21 · Senate Judiciary
Texas secured the largest first-year rural-health award of any state — more than $1.4 billion over five years.
Source: CMS · Gov. Abbott

Bottom line

Katy Stout stood against tax relief for workers and seniors, work requirements for able-bodied adults, and the resources to detain and remove criminal illegal aliens.

Source: Public Law 119-21 · IRS · USDA · Senate Judiciary

Katy won’t answer this

Which tax cuts, border investments, and rural-health funds would Katy Stout take away?

Source: IRS · CMS · Gov. Abbott

04Cookie gate · Campaign spending

Katy Stout used donor funds to buy cookies

$675 of other people’s money. Purpose of disbursement: “COOKIES FOR EVENT.”

Katy Stout eating a cookie beside the Katy Stout for Congress FEC ledger, with the $675 COOKIES FOR EVENT line highlighted

FEC · Schedule B

$675.00

Purpose of disbursement:
“COOKIES FOR EVENT”

Spender: Katy Padilla Stout for Congress
Payee: Denise Gamboa Zelle
Location: San Antonio, TX
Date: March 30, 2026
Purpose: COOKIES FOR EVENT
Category: Campaign Event Expenses
Line: Operating Expenditures
Committee: C00926121
Report: 2026 Q1 · Form F3 · Schedule B

Source: FEC disbursement · Filing image

05Big Bend

Caught red-handed lying about Big Bend border construction

Either she’s clueless about Texas District 23, or she was just caught intentionally lying. Either way, it’s just another of many reasons she’s not qualified to lead.

Katy’s lie

The Truth

Source: Katy’s Instagram reel · Brandon Herrera — X

The full charge sheet

Katy Stout sells moderate. The record doesn’t.

Katy Stout’s own flyer, quotes, and spending record — not a speech about Katy Stout.

Promoted an event advertised as “all ages” with drag performers — Katy’s Facebook, Feb. 25, 2022.
Source: Katy’s flyer
Told reporters she would restore Biden-era catch-and-release for asylum seekers.
Source: Express-News
Called border security “un-American.”
Source: San Antonio Report
Opposed tax deductions for tips, overtime, and seniors.
Source: Katy’s issues page · IRS
Spent $675 in donor funds on “COOKIES FOR EVENT” — March 30, 2026.
Source: FEC
Runs on “gun safety,” with a national gun-control PAC in the race.
Source: San Antonio Report

Katy Stout speaking and gesturing at a campaign event — Katy Stout, candidate for Texas’ 23rd Congressional District

Questions Katy won’t answer

Katy Stout owes Texans answers. Katy’s record already tells them where she stands.

01
Does she still support bringing children to drag shows?
Source: Katy’s Facebook post
See the receipt
02
Why does she want to re-open the border?
Source: Express-News
See the receipt
03
Which worker tax deductions and rural-health funds would she take away?
Source: IRS · CMS · Gov. Abbott
See the receipt

See Katy Stout’s record. Read the receipts. Decide for yourself.Stand with Brandon Herrera

The receipts are Katy Stout’s own record.

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Help defeat Katy Stout

A drag show to children. Catch-and-release at the border. An attack on tax relief for tipped and overtime workers. TX-23 deserves someone who matches the district. Here’s how to help Brandon Herrera defeat Katy Stout.

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