Democrat · Texas's 33rd District · 2026
Colin Allred
Allred met his wife, Aly, in law school when they were assigned to review each other's papers.
Biography
Colin Allred and his wife, Aly, are raising two children in Dallas, the city where his public school teacher mother raised him on her own.1 A football scholarship took him from Hillcrest High School to Baylor University, where he became a team captain before playing linebacker for the Tennessee Titans.2
He had already been accepted to law school when professional football offered another opportunity, and he postponed school to play in the NFL.1 An injury ended that career, and he earned his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2014.23 He became a civil rights lawyer working on voting access and served at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Obama administration.1
Allred served three House terms from 2019 to 2025 and left for an unsuccessful Senate bid in 2024.3 He helped bring a former Garland hospital into the VA system in 2020, working on the agreement to acquire the closed Baylor Scott & White facility.4 He is now seeking a return to Congress through the 33rd District.1
His affordability plan proposes repealing Trump's tariffs with national security exceptions and banning grocery price gouging.5 He favors a citizenship pathway for Dreamers, people with Temporary Protected Status and other undocumented immigrants who meet residency and background requirements.6 He also proposes prohibiting individual stock trading by members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children while in office.7 Republican Patrick Gillespie is his November opponent, while Michelle Craig is a certified declared write in candidate.89
Record and controversies
2024 complaint over party advertisements
In October 2024, Ted Cruz's campaign filed an FEC complaint alleging that advertisements by Allred's Senate campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee did not qualify for hybrid allocations, exceeded coordinated party spending limits and produced excessive in kind contributions.10 The DSCC said the advertisements used a practice Republican committees had also defended.11 In June 2026, the Supreme Court invalidated the coordinated party expenditure limits in 52 U.S.C. §30116(d); its holding does not invalidate all allocation, disclosure or contribution requirements.12 This review did not verify a later FEC finding or final disposition of the particular complaint.