A licensed sex therapist and leftist activist who called for turning a federal ICE detention center in Texas into a “prison for American Zionists,” complete with a “castration processing center for pedophiles,” lost the Democrat primary runoff for Texas’s 35th Congressional District on Tuesday.
Maureen Galindo, who was running as a self-described “participatory Democrat,” lost to Bexar County Sheriff’s Office public information officer Johnny Garcia by a margin of approximately 40.5% to 59.5%, according to Associated Press projections called late on election night.
Democrat Johnny Garcia will defeat Maureen Galindo, who was rebuked by the party for antisemitic remarks, in Texas House primary runoff, CNN’s Decision Desk projects. Follow live updates.https://t.co/qa6ee4Lysq pic.twitter.com/DEJyUF58z2
— CNN (@CNN) May 27, 2026
The loss came after weeks of national condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans over her inflammatory social media posts.
In the widely circulated carousel post on her campaign Instagram account, Galindo wrote in the third person:
“When Maureen gets into Congress, she’ll write legislation so that all Zionism is undoubtedly Anti-Semitic, since it’s Zionists harming the Semites… She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking. (It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles which will probably be most of the Zionists).”
The backlash was swift and severe.
Democrat Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Jared Moskowitz issued a joint statement declaring they would “force a vote to expel her every single day” if she were ever elected to Congress.
Statement from me and @RepMoskowitz on antisemitic TX-35 candidate Maureen Galindo: pic.twitter.com/CDqPS7aOTb
— Rep Josh Gottheimer (@RepJoshG) May 20, 2026
Democrat Rep. Al Green filed House Resolution 1313 condemning Galindo’s comments and introduced it on the House floor.
Even progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly denounced the remarks as “bigoted garbage and antisemitism” in a post on X. She also claimed that Galindo was being funded by Republicans.
This is absolutely disgusting.
This bigoted garbage and antisemitism should be nowhere near our politics.
If you’re in TX-35, vote for @johnnygarciatx.
And the donors behind the Republican super PAC funding her should be exposed. https://t.co/0rnQrd1P4b
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 19, 2026
Galindo’s campaign later issued a statement on her official website insisting the proposal targeted “billionaire zionists who have profited off genocidal prison state materials and trafficking” and had “nothing to do with religion — they could be Evangelical, Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, etc.”
Galindo also posted a follow-up Instagram video in which she defended herself and accused critics of twisting her words.
Galindo had surprisingly finished first in the initial March Democrat primary with 29.2% of the vote, narrowly ahead of Garcia’s 27.0%.
The redrawn TX-35 district, which stretches from parts of San Antonio into surrounding counties, was deliberately reconfigured by Texas Republicans to favor the GOP in November, but Democrats still viewed it as competitive.
The November general election will be Republican state Rep. John Lujan or Air Force veteran Carlos De La Cruz against Garcia.
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