Greg Casar
Democrat · TX-35 · U.S. House
TX-35 — U.S. House
Lean R 77%Greg Casar is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Johnny Garcia vs. Carlos De La Cruz. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
R +2 points of win probability since September.
Bio
Gregorio Eduardo Casar is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Texas's 35th congressional district since 2023. He served as a member of the Austin City Council from the 4th district from 2015 to 2022. Casar is a member of the Democratic Party and was endorsed by the Working Families Party in his run for Congress. He was first elected to the Austin City Council in 2014, representing District 4. He was reelected in 2016 and 2020. He was elected to Congress in 2022.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 352 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 37
- San Antonio, TX · 210-580-7000
- Austin, TX · 512-691-1200
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $30k – $100k
- Liabilities
- $115k – $300k
- Net worth
- −$270k – −$15k
- Since 2023
- +$65k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 2 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Greg Casar's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Greg Casar (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
Do you vote like Casar?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Casarsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 95 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 37 members
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Casar's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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Common Dreams · October 1, 2026
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Common Dreams · October 1, 2026
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The Texas Tribune · September 29, 2026
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