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LiberalMind endorses Trever Nehls

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 22nd District — the Fort Bend County, Sugar Land, and Pearland area — is an open seat. Rep. Troy Nehls (R), first elected in 2020, retired: he announced on November 29, 2025, that he would "focus on my family and return home after this Congress."

Read this next line carefully, because both compilations consulted stress it: the Republican nominee, Trever Nehls, is the retiring incumbent's twin brother — and he is NOT the incumbent. He has never held this seat. This is an open-seat race, not a re-election.

No verified new-map baseline for this district was located in the sources consulted, so no lean figure is printed here, and old-map figures are not used. It is a Republican open seat in Fort Bend County.

The two nominees: Trever Nehls (R) and Marquette Greene-Scott (D), who filed for this seat in a prior cycle as well.

Trever Nehls (Republican)

The record: Nehls is a former Fort Bend County constable and a retired Army colonel with 33 years of service. That is proven service in county office and in uniform — in this district — though he is new to Congress. He is the twin brother of the retiring incumbent, Troy Nehls, and is not himself the incumbent.

Pros: A record voters can actually check: elected county office in Fort Bend and a 33-year Army career ending at colonel. Of the candidates in this batch of open seats, his is the least speculative file.

Cons: County office is not Congress. No federal votes, no federal budget, no Washington record exists yet, and a famous surname in this district will invite voters to assume a record that belongs to his brother.

The flaw, plainly: Nehls is proven in county office and new to Congress — the watch applies to the federal step-up, not to a blank file. Voters should judge the constable and colonel in front of them, not the congressman who retired.

Marquette Greene-Scott (Democratic)

The record: Greene-Scott is, per her campaign biography, Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Iowa Colony. She also filed for this seat in a prior cycle. No other elected record is located in the file.

Pros: Current municipal office in the district's own community, and the persistence to seek this seat more than once.

Cons: No service record exists in which a break with her party toward our values could be documented at the level this seat requires. What she offers is her party's program, carried by a local officeholder.

The flaw, plainly: Greene-Scott asks voters to hand a Republican open seat to the opposing party's program on the strength of a Mayor Pro Tem post. There is nothing else in the file to weigh against a constable's and colonel's record.

OUR CALL

LiberalMind endorses Trever Nehls.

Again, plainly: Trever Nehls is Troy Nehls's twin brother, not Troy Nehls, and this endorsement is of the brother who served as Fort Bend County constable and retired as an Army colonel after 33 years — a proven county record, new to Congress. Against a Democratic nominee with no documented break toward our values, the doctrine answers it directly.

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 5, 2026

Winner: Trever Nehls (Republican) — called by the Associated Press. This result was appended on November 5, 2026 (results wave 3); 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.

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