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Terry Virts

Running for U.S. House District 9 — 2026 election

Raised · 2026 cycle

$665K

Source: FEC

As of July 2026, Terry Virts is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House District 9 in Texas in the 2026 election. Federal Election Commission filings report $665,423 in total receipts for the 2026 cycle. All figures on this page are drawn from primary sources — FEC filings, congressional records, and STOCK Act disclosures — and link back to them.

Data last updated July 2026.

Terry Virts (Democrat) ran for the U.S. House in Texas' 9th Congressional District in 2026, losing the March 3 Democratic primary. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel, he served from 1985 to 2017 as an F-16 fighter pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, piloting the space shuttle Endeavour and commanding the International Space Station. He holds a bachelor's from the U.S. Air Force Academy (1989), a graduate degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (1997), and studied at Harvard Business School (2011).

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88% of fundraising comes from individual donors — one of the more grassroots-funded profiles in this cycle.

$665K

Total raised

$454K

Total spent

$3K

Cash on hand

Where the money comes from

Individual donations ≥$200$333K · 50%
Small dollar donations <$200$250K · 38%
PAC contributions$5K · 1%
Loans and other receipts$78K · 12%

Reflects money received by the campaign committee itself. “Loans and other receipts” covers candidate or bank loans, offsets to operating expenditures, interest and other non-contribution receipts reported to the FEC. Independent expenditures by super PACs are not included.

Totals through 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC