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Maureen Galindo, a San Antonio sex therapist and housing activist, won the most votes in the March 2026 Democratic primary for Texas's redrawn 35th Congressional District despite spending only a few thousand dollars. But her Instagram posts pledging to convert an ICE detention center into "a prison for American Zionists" and "a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists" triggered bipartisan condemnation and a 21-point runoff defeat on May 26 — while also exposing a secretive Republican-linked super PAC that spent roughly $1 million trying to keep her candidacy alive.