{"id":410339,"date":"2026-08-19T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410339\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:10:07","slug":"meet-the-candidates-for-u-s-house-of-representatives-district-21-southwest-austin-dripping-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410339\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates for U.S. House of Representatives District 21 | Southwest Austin &#8211; Dripping Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Mark Teixeira and Democrat Kristin Hook are running for the U.S. House of Representatives District 21 seat.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira advanced from a crowded <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/election\/meet-the-republican-candidates-for-us-house-of-representatives-district-21-march-primary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Republican primary field<\/a>, while Hook beat two other contenders in the <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/election\/meet-the-democratic-candidates-for-us-house-of-representatives-district-21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic primary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting for the general election starts Oct. 19 and ends Oct. 30, and Election Day is Nov. 3. For more information on voting procedures, visit your county&#8217;s website. For more election coverage, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityimpact.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.communityimpact.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Candidates were asked to keep responses within 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines, or for style and clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican Mark Teixeira and Democrat Kristin Hook are running for the U.S. House of Representatives District 21 seat.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[143357,132,134,133,51928,57891,27,143358,2860],"class_list":["post-410339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-2026-texas-general-election","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-kristin-hook","tag-mark-teixeira","tag-texas","tag-u-s-house-district-21","tag-u-s-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}