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Colin Allred, a Democrat who represented Texas's 32nd congressional district from 2019 to 2025 and was his party's 2024 U.S. Senate nominee, faces Republican Patrick Gillespie for Texas's 33rd district seat in 2026.
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Colin Allred was born on April 15, 1983, in Dallas, Texas, and was raised by his mother, Judith Allred, a single mother who worked as a public school teacher. A fourth-generation Texan, he is related to former Texas governor James V. Allred.
At Hillcrest High School in Dallas he played baseball, basketball and football and served as class president, and he earned a scholarship to play college football at Baylor University.
Allred played linebacker for the Baylor Bears from 2001, was named team captain and defensive MVP in 2005, and graduated in December 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.
After signing with the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2006, Colin Allred appeared in 32 games for the team in four seasons between 2007 and 2010.
A neck injury suffered in an October 2010 game against the Dallas Cowboys led him to retire and enroll at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor in 2014.
He then directed voter protection in the Dallas-Fort Worth region for Battleground Texas, served in 2016 as a special assistant in the Office of General Counsel at the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Secretary Julian Castro, and worked as a civil rights attorney at the law firm Perkins Coie.
Allred entered Congress after defeating Republican incumbent Pete Sessions in Texas's 32nd district in 2018, and he won re-election in 2020 and 2022.
In the House he was co-president of the Democratic freshmen of the 116th Congress and served on the committees on Foreign Affairs, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs.
He won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2024 and lost the general election to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz on November 5, 2024. Allred launched a second Senate campaign in July 2025 and ended it on December 8, 2025, to run for the 33rd congressional district.
Colin Allred is the Democratic nominee for Texas's 33rd congressional district, which redistricting has redrawn to lie entirely within Dallas County, centered on Downtown and Uptown Dallas.
The district's incumbent, Democrat Jasmine Crockett, chose to pursue a run for the U.S. Senate seat held by John Cornyn.
In the Democratic primary Allred led a four-candidate field with 44.0% of the vote, then defeated Julie Johnson, the incumbent U.S. representative from the 32nd district, in a May runoff by 11,354 votes to 9,677.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, he faces Republican Patrick Gillespie, a customs broker who won his own party's runoff.
