Brandon Herrera says Democrat Katy Padilla Stout is lying about him again — and this time he posted the receipts in public.

Late Monday, the Republican nominee in Texas’s 23rd Congressional District posted a thread calling Stout “an egregious liar” over her latest claims about his position on a border barrier through Big Bend. In the same post, Herrera attached screenshots of Stout’s own Facebook writing and a photo from an anti-wall protest where the two crossed paths.

According to the screenshots Herrera shared, Stout told supporters he still wants “some sort of electrical wall or fence” in Big Bend and that any such plan would still mean eminent domain and bulldozers in the parks. Herrera’s reply was blunt: he says he was the first federal Republican candidate to come out against a wall through Big Bend, and that he has taken that position “directly to the White House and DHS.”

He also said that when he walked up to Stout for a third time to shake her hand and thank her for showing up on an issue they both claim to care about, “she turned her back and ran.”

“She lied about Big Bend once with her fraudulent construction video, and she’s lying again,” Herrera wrote. “She is clearly clueless on the issues. The only thing she has to offer is slander.”

The Big Bend video

That “fraudulent construction video” line points to an Aug. 24 post that has already done heavy circulation. Herrera published a clip saying Stout “just got caught red-handed LYING about Big Bend construction.”

The post has drawn tens of thousands of likes. Herrera has separately said he has advocated preserving Big Bend National Park and the state park while still securing the border — a line he repeated again on Aug. 18 when federal action paused Big Bend barrier work.

Twenty-seven counties

Three days after the Big Bend video, Herrera posted another clip hammering Stout for not knowing the district. TX-23 has 27 counties. Herrera’s video asked which county is “so unimportant to Clueless Katy that she keeps leaving it out.”

That is not a small miss in a sprawling border district that runs from San Antonio’s west side to El Paso’s outskirts. Herrera’s pitch is that he knows the ground. Stout’s early general-election problem, in his telling, is that she does not.

Money and the poll

While Stout’s campaign has leaned on personal attacks and recycled YouTube clips, Herrera has been stacking more conventional campaign wins.

On Aug. 18 he announced his campaign raised more money in the first 45 days of the third quarter than Stout has raised in her entire political career — “over $600,000” since July 1, per a campaign update reported by Breitbart News. The same report put Stout’s entire haul at about $484,915, with roughly $171,373 cash on hand after what Herrera’s team mocked as snack-heavy spending.

A Remington Research Group survey taken July 25–28 among 572 likely general-election voters and reported exclusively by Breitbart on Aug. 19 had Herrera at 47 percent to Stout’s 41 percent, with 10 percent undecided (±4.3 points). Herrera posted the lead the same day.

Herrera, a firearms manufacturer and YouTuber, became the GOP nominee after forcing then-Rep. Tony Gonzales into a primary runoff that was later canceled when Gonzales resigned amid scandal. Stout won the Democratic primary. The general election is Nov. 3, 2026.

For now, the race’s clearest pattern is the one Herrera keeps documenting on his own account: Stout makes a claim about Big Bend or the district, and he puts up video or screenshots showing she got it wrong.

Sources: Breitbart News, Aug. 19, 2026; Ballotpedia; Herrera posts embedded above.