Steve Toth
Republican | Texas
Candidate Profile*
Verified Conservative
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Steve Toth
Party
Republican
Election Year
2026
Election
Republican Primary
Race
U.S. Representative 2
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
Rochester Bible College, Rochester, NY, 1985-1988
WORK & MILITARY
Texas State Guard -, Major, 2013-2025
AFFILIATIONS
Fellowship of The Woodlands, Pastor of Family Life Ministries, 1999-2000
Emergency Ministries, Board of Directors, 2000-2005
Mighty Oaks, Chairman of The Board, 2011-2025
WoodsEdge, Teaching Elder, 2004-2011
Grace Woodlands Church, Family Attends, 2011-2025
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Texas State Legislature HD-15, 2013-2015
Texas State Legislature HD-15, 2019-2025
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Texas Senate, 2014-
CD-8, 2016-
Congressional District 2, 2025-
SCORECARDS
CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS*
CONSERVATIVE (46)
Young Conservatives of Texas
Texas Right to Life TRL PAC
*Texas Home School Coalition THSC PAC
*Texas Patriots PAC
Montgomery County Tea Party
OTHER (5)
Texans for Toll-Free Highways TTH
*United Republicans of Texas
Tucker Carlson
BIZPAC
Texans for Strong Borders
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (11)
Texas Right to Life
Pro Life Organization
Texans for Strong Borders
Texas Homeschool Coalition
Gun Owners of America
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (41)
Republican Voters of Texas PAC (2024)
Republican Womens Organizations (2024)
State Republican Party Organizations (2024)
Grassroots America - We the People PAC (2023)
Local, County, and District Republican Organizations (2023)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (70)
America's Future Together (2024)
Conservative Republicans of Texas (2024)
Dan Patrick (2024)
Defend Texas Liberty (2024)
Farris & Jo Ann Wilks (2024)
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (0)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (3)
Craig Eiland (2024)
Texas Trial Lawyers Association (2024)
International Union of Police Associations (2022)
OTHER INFORMATION
Candidate Q&A. Community Impact. 22 Jan 2026.
The 2025 Texas House from right to left according to analysis by Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
The 2023 Texas House from right to left according to analysis by Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
Signed the Texas First Pledge.
Candidate graded B- by pro-marijuana group NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).
During 2021 Regular Legislative Session, one of 21 Texas House members who voted FOR HR4, Amendment 10, which would have provided greater transparency on lawmaker actions by requiring record votes in committees.
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.
Strongly Agree
The purpose of government is to secure the rights granted by God. The Founders defined the first two as Life and Liberty. Government that fails to protect Life at either the State or Federal level won't prosper and won't see the full blessings of liberty.
The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.
Strongly Agree
Life begins at conception
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
Only when the physical life of the Mother is in jeopardy.
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Strongly Disagree
The Hyde Amendment was wrong. Federal grant dollars are fungible assets on Planned Parenthood's balance sheet. Trump was right to eliminate them.
The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.
Strongly Agree
Further, Shipping companies like Amazon, UPS, FedEx or any other shipper should be held civilly liable for transporting them.
ECONOMY
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
The original wording of the Declaration of Independence read; " We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and Property..." Christian abolitionists pushed to replace "Property" with "... the pursuit of Happiness" so that slave states could not justify enslaving people with codifying language of the Declaration.
People who can afford to pay more taxes should do so in order to provide relief for working families.
Strongly Disagree
Financial success should not be used as a form of punishment by our tax code.
The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt.
Strongly Agree
An austerity budget must be adopted now in order to have any chance of saving our Constitutional Republic
List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.
Elimination of multiple agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Education, U.S. Dept. of Geological Survey, Dept. of Rural Housing, Dept. of Commerce. Dept. of the Interior, Multiple agencies that grant money to welfare NGO's must also be eliminated. The Justice Department should seek criminal & civil charges against US Aid and other organizations for theft & fraud. There's another 200 departments & agencies that could be combined or outright eliminated
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Strongly Disagree
The role of government is not to impose someone else's values and beliefs on either an individual or a business.
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
In a letter to the Danbury Baptists, we see the term "separation of Church and State" used by Jefferson. It's clear purpose according to the First Amendment and the Establishment Clause was to keep Government out of the Church and NOT the Church out of Government.
HEALTHCARE
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.
D. Most closely matches my conviction. "Hillary Care" was killed in 1993 by a coalition of insurance companies. Obama in 2010 didn't make the same mistake but instead repositioned "Hillary Care" in to "Obama Care" by paying off big insurance. The only thing insurance has brought us over the years is unaffordable healthcare.
The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.
Strongly Disagree
It's none of their business and it's a violation of the 4th Amendment
NATIONAL SECURITY
With regard to America's foreign policy, which view most closely resembles yours: A) The United States should intervene whenever freedom is threatened. B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny. C) The United States has become too involved in others' policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.
C. most closely reflects my position. After WW1 (The War To End All Wars) the US turned to isolation. Evil and tyranny flourishes in a vacuum where strength of virtue is absent. We ended up with WW2 because of our failure to stand up to Germany early.
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Strongly Agree
China is not a trading partner, we found that out during Covid. They are our enemy and must be treated as such. The US must bring home creation of chips, antibiotics and other essentials back to the US for production.
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
Israel is the only Democratically elected ally of the US in the Middle East. Israel is an island in a sea of Islamic Fundamentalists who openly and seeks the destruction of America. Islamic Fundamentalists are divided by Arab-Sunnis & Persian-Shias. Shias are eagerly seeking to become a nuclear power. Sunnis are more comfortable with Isreal as a nuclear power than their Shia neighbors. Why? Because they know the Shias will use Nuclear weapons and start a world war.
Islamic terrorism is a threat to the United States' national security.
Strongly Agree
Islamic Fundamentalism is the greatest threat to not only the US but all of Western Countries. You only have to look at Paris, London, Madrid, Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota to see this caustic wave of Islamic Fundamentalism.
IMMIGRATION
Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?
Even legal immigration needs to be paused. Currently, the US brings in one million people a year into the US. One third of them goes directly on to the welfare roles. H1B Visa holders are going to immigrants who will work for half of what US workers should be paid under normal market forces.
I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.
Strongly Disagree
Cities that are in violation of Texas and Federal law should be put into a conservatorship and lose any and all state and federal funding
EDUCATION
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Strongly Agree
The Department of Education is a bloated waste of money that has caused student outcomes in the US to decline dramatically since its inception in 1980.
Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.
Strongly Agree
VALUES
Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.
Strongly Agree
I authored legislation this year in Texas that was added as an amendment to SB12 by Creighton that bans the social transitioning of children in TX Schools. My legislation is a first in the US
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Jesus Christ is both my Savior and Lord. I seek to walk according to His precepts as lined out in His Word.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
EQUALITY
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Strongly Agree
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
Oil & gas currently is the only reliable & dispatchable energy. The next energy source is Thorium Radioactivity based molten salt reactors. Texas is leading the way on this highly reliable and dispatchable energy source.
ABOUT YOU
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
No
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
No
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Very Conservative
When Mitt Romney calls himself an "Extreme Conservative" it causes me to question what the word Conservative means. Our Constitution was meant for a Moral and Religious people only. Why? Because it was not meant to control the affairs of free people. Personal responsibility and personal morality is the only thing that will hold a Constitutional Republic together which is why the role of the Church and the hope for revival in our land is so essential.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.
Strongly Agree
While Government has a responsibility to protect Children, Parents have the primary responsibility.
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
None. There is no such thing as "Gun Violence" as my opponent has stated. Guns are not violent. Guns are inanimate objects that can be used for Justice or injustice based on who's hands they are in.
