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Candidate · November 3, 2026 General Election

Erica Gillum

On the ballot for Texas State Senator, District 18 · 4-year term

In their own words

Quoted from Erica Gillum’s own official campaign material — what the campaign says the candidate will do. Some campaigns write about their candidate in the third person; the wording is theirs either way. These are the candidate’s claims: PlainDocket doesn’t check, rate or endorse them, and every candidate in a race is quoted the same way, from the same kind of source.

  • I'm Erica Gillum, a lifelong Texan, businesswoman, and former Mayor of Hempstead, and I'm running to represent District 18 in the Texas Senate.
    Gillum for Texas (campaign site)
  • I'm a Realtor, real estate coach, investor, and for more than two decades, I've dedicated myself to helping families and small businesses build stability, wealth, and opportunity.
    Gillum for Texas (campaign site)
  • I believe in the values that make Texans strong: hard work, self-reliance, faith, integrity, and a deep commitment to community.
    Gillum for Texas (campaign site)
  • I know the greatest divide in our country is not left versus right, it's top versus bottom, and I believe that when Texans unite, there is nothing we cannot achieve together.
    Gillum for Texas (campaign site)

Where the money comes from

$5,926$5,926 in total receipts, through Jun 30, 2026 — Search the Texas Ethics Commission for Erica Gillum's filings raised, through Jun 30, 2026

The filing reports a total but doesn’t break it down by source, so there is nothing to chart here.

Official filing: Search the Texas Ethics Commission for Erica Gillum's filings

  • This figure is the candidate's own campaign account. Any committee the Texas Ethics Commission records as supporting them is listed separately and is NOT added in — money moved between the two is reported by both, so a combined total would count it twice.
  • These lines don't add up to total receipts — receipts also include transfers, loans and refunds, which aren't donations.
  • Filing is periodic (semiannual, 30-day, or 8-day pre-election reports). The figure above sums every report filed for the current 2025-2026 election cycle, through the most recent period shown — it can be several months stale depending on where a candidate is in the filing cycle, and excludes activity from any earlier cycle.
  • The Texas Ethics Commission and the Federal Election Commission define "total receipts" differently — Texas Ethics Commission figures should never be compared directly against a federal candidate's FEC figures.

Official records

We searched the registries below and found no record for Erica Gillum.

Checked 28 July 2026: Texas Legislature (impeachment records) · Texas Ethics Commission (final orders) · State Bar of Texas (attorney discipline) · Texas State Securities Board (enforcement orders). The same registries are searched for every candidate in a race, and each entry describes only what the record itself states — including how it ended. We publish no allegations and no news coverage.

  • The Texas Ethics Commission is required by law to keep dismissed complaints, and findings it treats as technical or minor, confidential — so no result there means no publicly-issued final order, not that no complaint was ever filed.
  • A State Bar profile shows public disciplinary history the Bar publishes online; older judgments are held by its disciplinary counsel and aren't in that profile.

Official campaign site: www.gillumfortexas.com — the candidate’s own site, not ours.

Look up the official record

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