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Did Eric Flores commit to running in District 34 before the map changed?

Matches stated record claim. He filed for District 34 on July 16, 2025, before any new map was filed or signed, but a week after the Governor put a new map on the session's agenda.

Eric Flores

Running for District 34 before the map changed

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign's release of August 29, 2025 quotes him saying he committed to running for District 34 before the map changed.

“I committed to running for District 34 before the map changed”

What the record shows ·

He signed his statement of candidacy for Texas's 34th district, as a Republican, on July 16, 2025. The first congressional redistricting bill of 2025, H.B. 4 of the first called session, was filed two weeks later, on July 30. The map that was enacted, H.B. 4 of the second called session, was signed by the Governor on August 29, 2025.

Limit: The filing came before any new map was filed or enacted, which is what he says. It did not come before a new map was expected: the Governor had put a revised congressional plan on the special session's agenda on July 9, a week before he filed.

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  1. Republican Eric Flores Raises $440,000 in Five Weeks (document)

    Eric Flores for Congress · Published Aug 29, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign press release dated August 29, 2025, a PDF linked from the campaign's news page and carrying its paid-for line. It says the campaign raised over $440,000 during its first five weeks, and quotes him: "I committed to running for District 34 before the map changed." The verifier reads both sentences from the PDF's text layer (checks flores-release-440k and flores-release-map-quote, pinned to the file's SHA-256 5f04aedfcb6efea4bc82300bc4ecdbbaa7996fa5897cdf239dbd77e9297ceff4).

    candidate statement

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  2. Eric Flores, Statement of Candidacy (FEC Form 2)https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/H6TX34080/1903953/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    His first statement of candidacy, file 1903953, signed July 16, 2025: Republican, House of Representatives, Texas district 34, designating Eric Flores for Congress as principal committee.

    fec filing

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  3. H.B. 4, 89th Legislature, First Called Session, historyhttps://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=891&Bill=HB4

    Texas Legislature Online · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The first congressional redistricting bill of 2025, filed July 30, 2025. It stalled when the session ended.

    official legislative record

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  4. H.B. 4, 89th Legislature, Second Called Session, historyhttps://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=892&Bill=HB4

    Texas Legislature Online · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The congressional map that was enacted: filed August 15, 2025, passed the House on August 20 and the Senate on August 23, signed by the Governor on August 29, effective December 4, 2025.

    official legislative record

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