← Election Series · All house races

Our verdict

LiberalMind endorses Ronny Jackson

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and voting is already underway in Texas. This is the whole race — the records, the claims against each candidate, and what the sources actually show. Read the research, and decide which flaw you can live with.

The setup

Texas's 13th District — Amarillo, Wichita Falls, and the Texas Panhandle into North Texas — is held by incumbent Rep. Ronny Jackson (R), first elected in 2020. His challenger is Mark Nair (D), a former Amarillo City Council member.

On the lean: no verified new-map baseline was located in the sources consulted for this district. This is one of Texas's most Republican seats by long-standing composition, but no old-map number is printed here as a substitute — the file forbids it, and so do we.

Ronny Jackson (Republican)

The record: Jackson is a retired Navy rear admiral who served as White House physician to Presidents Obama and Trump. In Congress he serves on Intelligence, Agriculture, Armed Services, and Foreign Affairs. He was first elected in 2020.

Pros: A senior military and medical career at the highest level — physician to two presidents of different parties — four committee assignments spanning defense, intelligence, agriculture, and foreign policy, and a congressional record since 2020 that voters can audit.

Cons: An incumbent's record is also the case against him for any voter who disagrees with how he has used the seat since 2020. The file located no specific documented break or scandal to print beyond that ordinary accountability.

The flaw, plainly: Jackson's flaw, if a voter finds one, is in a record that is fully on display — in the Navy, in the White House, and in Congress. There is no hidden file here.

Mark Nair (Democratic)

The record: Nair is a former Amarillo City Council member. His campaign biography, as compiled by The Ballot Brief, describes an educator, innovator, inventor, and entrepreneur whose family has been in the district for more than 30 years.

Pros: Actual local elected service on the Amarillo City Council, and deep family roots in the district — the strongest local-government credential in this batch of challengers.

Cons: City council service is the whole of the elected record in the file, and no documented break toward our values in service appears there — the Manchin test reads service for a break toward our values, and none is documented here. What he offers beyond Amarillo is his party's program.

The flaw, plainly: Nair asks voters to trade a six-year congressional record and a rear admiral's career for a city council record and a campaign biography. There is nothing else in the file to weigh.

OUR CALL

LiberalMind endorses Ronny Jackson.

An incumbent with a checkable record in uniform, in the White House, and in Congress, against a challenger whose real local service we credit plainly — and which does not come with any documented break toward our values. No verified new-map baseline was located for this district, so no lean number is printed, even here.

This race is one of hundreds in LiberalMind's Election 2026 coverage. For the complete breakdown — every race, claim by claim — go to liberalmindhq.com.

Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same.

Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Winner: Ronny Lynn Jackson (Republican) — called by the Associated Press. This result was appended on November 4, 2026 (results wave 1); the original article above is unchanged, exactly as published before Election Day.

AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.

← Back to the Election Series