Published July 13, 2026 · Updated with each build
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Finding House · Texas Democrat

Garcia, Johnny FINDING

Seat
H-TX-35
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$328,307 FEC
Campaign site
https://www.votejohnnygarcia.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
15 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://www.votejohnnygarcia.com/media  · classifier confidence 0.95 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page contains a 'Summary' section that prescribes specific media channels (broadcast, mail, streaming/digital), target audiences segmented by demographics and geography, and message themes including contrast with an opponent. This is not voter-facing persuasion but rather instructions for an outside group to execute paid advertising, meeting the definition of red-box guidance.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • All Hispanic voters and Non-Hispanic men who voted in the 2026 Dem Primary district-wide, with an emphasis on communicating with older, consistent Dem voters in Guadalupe and Wilson counties, need to see English and Spanish language ads on broadcast highlighting Johnny Garcia’s background and primary runoff voting information.
    Segmented audience with explicit channel (broadcast) and language instructions, typical of media-buy guidance.
  • All Hispanic voters and Non-Hispanic men who voted in the 2026 Dem Primary district-wide, with an emphasis on communicating with older, consistent Dem voters in Guadalupe and Wilson counties, need to read English and Spanish language mail highlighting Johnny Garcia’s background and primary runoff voting information, including comparisons showing why Johnny is the only Democrat voters can trust to stand up for working families.
    Directive for mail piece with specific audience, geography, and message framing.
  • All Hispanic voters and Non-Hispanic men who voted in the 2026 Dem Primary district-wide, with an emphasis on communicating with older, consistent Dem voters in Guadalupe and Wilson counties, need to see English and Spanish language ads on streaming and digital platforms highlighting Johnny Garcia’s background and primary runoff voting information, including comparisons showing why Johnny is the only Democrat voters can trust to stand up for working families.
    Further channel-specific (streaming/digital) instruction with same audience and message, reinforcing red-boxing pattern.
Archived screenshot of https://www.votejohnnygarcia.com/media
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://www.votejohnnygarcia.com/media · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 44 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $5,193,788 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate, and $227,847 opposing.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S PROJECT 218 $3,597,344 12 2026-05-13 – 2026-05-21
S BDA PAC $1,162,500 9 2026-02-11 – 2026-05-21
S SD 2026 $269,807 4 2026-05-11 – 2026-05-22
O LEAD LEFT PAC $227,847 12 2026-05-05 – 2026-05-22
S DMFI PAC $164,138 7 2026-02-25 – 2026-05-22

S Supporting O Opposing

Schedule E is corroboration, not the trigger — a filed expenditure is late evidence, and our detection timestamp reflects when we crawled, which can lag the actual posting. Supporting IE dated on or after our detection day: $0. Dates are FEC expenditure dates.