Martin Etwop

Republican | Texas

Candidate Profile

Conservative

BIOGRAPHY

Name

Martin Etwop


Party

Republican


Election Year

2026


Election

Republican Primary


Race

U.S. Representative 2


Incumbent

No


Links

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EDUCATION

Texas Southern University, Houston, Juris Doctor, 2020-2022

Liberty University, Lynchburg, B.S Business Administration, 2015-2018

WORK & MILITARY

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AFFILIATIONS

Grace Woodlands Church, Usher/Volunteer, 2020-2025

Montgomery County Tea Party PAC, Member, 2020-2025

Montgomery County Pachyderms Club, Board Member, 2022-2024

Faith Votes Community Impact Team, Member, 2020-2025

Citizens Defending Freedom, Volunteer/ Staff Attorney, 2023-2025

POLITICAL OFFICES HELD

Montgomery County MUD 95 Director, 2024-2025

POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT

United States House of Representatives

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS

CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (9)

Texas Tea Party groups (2025)

Brandon Creighton (2024)

Jon Bouche (2024)

Republican Womens Organizations (2024)

Jameson Ellis (2023)

RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (1)

WinRed (2022)


OTHER INFORMATION

Candidate Q&A. Community Impact. 22 Jan 2026.

Candidate forum. Montgomery County Eagle Forum. 8 Jan 2026. 52:54 min.

Candidate interview. Montgomery County Tea Party. 1 Nov 2025. 1:12:07 min.

QUESTIONNAIRE

RIGHT TO LIFE

Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.

Strongly Agree

Each individual is uniquely formed from conception and as a Christian and advocate for life, I believe that our most sacred responsibility to one another as humans is protecting the sacred gift of life given to us by our Creator and maker. There is no greater blessing in protecting something that carries the very breath of God. The preamble of our Constitution reminds us that our Creator has endowed us with LIFE, . . . . This means that we must hold life so dearly and protect it at all costs.

The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.

Strongly Agree

When a living sperm and living egg are joined together and life is created, whether in the womb or in the lab, that life that is created must be protected. It used not be used for purposes of research then destroyed, it must be allowed to grow into a mature human being . The moment life is created, the breath of God lives in it, and we must cherish, protect, and defend that life.

Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?

Under no circumstances. Who grants the government or anyone the authority to take the innocent life?

Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).

Strongly Disagree

Abortion provider must be banned, and those who continue to terminate life prosecuted for it.

The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.

Strongly Agree

Interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs is the same as hiring an out of state hitman. This practice should be stopped. Many want to argue that abortion is a state issue, and out of state abortion drugs should travel freely interstate. But actually, life is an endowment from God. It preexisted our and all other forms of judicial system, so it is the job of every individual and every government to protect life not destroy it.


ECONOMY

Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.

Strongly Agree

We can only grow our economy when people are allowed to thrive through their experience, experiment and ingenuity. Free enterprise encourages hard work. Only the private property owner knows the true value of their property, and the sacrifice they make to achieve success in their endeavors. The production and consumption process should be left between the producer and consumer. They can come up with an agreeable, beneficial solution. Only natural supply and demand can ensure productivity.

People who can afford to pay more taxes should do so in order to provide relief for working families.

Strongly Disagree

Everyone should pay as little taxes as they can and invest the extra money in whatever venture brings them more money to grow the economy, hire more workers and expand on their ventures. The bigger the economy, the bigger the tax base. This is a better way to raise people up from poverty because there will be more jobs for more people, and people are encouraged to work hard to grow wealth. If those with more want to spend some of their money to do philanthropy, good. But they shouldn't be forced

The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt.

Strongly Agree

Our government is spending too much on things that only burden our children's future, so yes, it must cut spending. We do not need an over-stretched beauracracy, we should not be bailing out corporations, we should not be paying for foreign wars and we should not be subsidising other nations at our expense. We must cut down spending for the sake of our children.

List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.

Reduce the scope and size of government. We must reduce the swamp and the bureaucracy. Eliminate the subsidizing of foreign military defense and intervention in foreign wars. Delete all duplicative departments within the government. Renegotiate the bloated contracts and delete unwanted contracts or services.


RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.

Strongly Disagree

No one should be required to violate their moral or religious beliefs. An individual's religious belief is superior to any government interest because their relationship with God is superior to whatever the government will ever try to force them to do. If we are a nation of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, how then is it even that we are taking away liberty, forcing people to do the will of government? Isn't government supposed to work for the people, not the other way around?

What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?

Separation of church and state is an illusion, a lie. True, the state should not impose religion on its people, we are a free people afterall, but the church, comprised of individuals cannot stop to be the conscience of the community. The church is not called to have two pockets, one to desal with the state and the other with the people. The church is the salt and light, so it can only continue being that, shining light through the darkness. The church MUST ALWAYS be involved in politics.


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.

People who have paid into the Medicare system should continue to receive what they already paid into. In very rare circumstance, there are people who will need government insurance, example, kids in foster care systems. Otherwise, private healthcare system is the only guarantee that the system can work well. Instead of focusing on who should or should not be covered, the government should be more focused on why European pharmaceutical companies make 90% of their profits in the US.

The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.

Strongly Disagree

This is a big 4th amendment violations. As a free people, we are entitled to privacy and using the argument of economic burden of treatment does not outweigh the right of the people to engage in their own management of treatment and health. If anyone wants to volunteer their information to the government, that is up to them, but even then, government should not use tax payer money to try to coerce people into "volunteering". We are either free or we are not.


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) The United States has become too involved in others' policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. If our freedom and sovereignty is threatened, the US should unless its power on wherever the threat is coming from and make the statement so big that no one will dare us again. Otherwise, we should focus on growing our nation and and taking care of our people. We must be America First.

The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.

Strongly Agree

The CCP is our biggest threat. But if we focus our energies on making America greater and stronger instead of spending too much time being engaged in other nations' problems which ends up wearing out our people and our troops, we would not even have to worry about the CCP. We must be laser focused on being America, the greatest nation on earth, but right now we are too focused on too many things and China is taking advantage of that. They play the long game while we are playing the now game.

Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?

Yes. The relationship with Israel is a special relationship because Israel has a special place in the heart of God, and when we have them as an ally, God becomes our ally. The story of Gibeon tells of when the sun stood still. When Joshua was defending its new ally Gibeon, and the Lord showed up and stood with Gibeon. As a nation, when we stand with Israel, we engage God's supernatural power over our land. Some of our best technology has come from Israel or Jewish Americans.

Islamic terrorism is a threat to the United States' national security.

Strongly Agree

Yes, when you combine religion with terrorism, this becomes one of the worst threats we can face. But our biggest issue as Americans should be that the church must take back its place as the watchmen for the nation. The church has fallen asleep and people do not really understand who we are anymore, and when the church loses its saltiness, the threat of Islamic terrorism becomes real because the church which is the spiritual defence of nation has lost its power and authority.


IMMIGRATION

Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?

Only people who have gone through the vetting process. Tourists, students, academics, athletes, all these different people can and should come to the US, the nation of immigrants, but they all must follow a process. We should be able to take in refugees as well, but vetting must be carried out pretty strong as well. And anyone coming in must learn the language and culture, must assimilate. Also they must understand that they will give up some freedoms, so the government can check on them anytime

I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.

Strongly Disagree

We should not even have such a thing as sanctuary cities or illegal immigrants. Anyone who is in the country illegally must be detained, contained and removed. Simple.


EDUCATION

I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.

Strongly Agree

Education should not just go back to the states, but to the parents. "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he shall not depart from it." This is a call to the parents not to the government. So the government should get out of the business of educating children, noth Federal and state government.

Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.

Strongly Agree

America is the wealthiest, smartest and most powerful nation on the face of the planet. Why then would we allow foreign governments to educate our children? This is absurd.


VALUES

Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.

Strongly Agree

Human experiments to try to transform children into the opposite sex is the highest form of mutilation. It cannot and should not condoned at any cost. As for children and even adults who want such things, they are mentally ill and need to see a mental health professional, not assited in this deviant activity.

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

God created the sexes, and ordained marriage. for that reason, a man shall leave his father and mother, be united to his wife and the two shall be one. Any other form of sexual relationship outside of this is deviance and depravity.

Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.

Jesus is my personal Lord and savior. He died on the cross, a very painful death for my sins. I have been saved by grace through faith. My belief in Jesus guides how I live and act as the word says "whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." And "do it all to the glory of Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father." I try and want my life to align with what my savior and my Heavenly Fathers calls me to do and be. I am called to be a light, a disciple maker, an ambassador of Christ. This means I live my life worthy of His calling, not trying to misapply the His word to make my life simple but holding myself to a standard worthy of Him. When I work, when I lead, when I raise my children, when I speak to others, it should be aboy Him.


ELECTIONS AND VOTING

People should be able to vote without photo identification.

Strongly Disagree

Absolutely not. Voting is a privilege and a responsibility granted only to American citizens, and the only way to prove who can excercise this privilege is through voter identification. The highest honor of a citizen is to be able to elect their leaders. This is a sacred act that means it nust be treated with utmost respect and awe. Voter identification is a way to ensure our election system remains sacred.


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

Why would a man want to take up space reserved for women, unless they have mental health issues, in which case they need mental health treatment, not cajoled and bemused by being allowed in women's space. Only cowards and weak men and men with nefarious sexual interests would want to be in women spaces.


ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?

We need an all the above source. We produce plenty of fossil fuels, but we also need to use other options, including nuclear, solar, hydro, wind, and whatever else we can produce where feasible. Government should not decide what the people choose.


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

I am a social, economic and religious conservative. I believe in the free market, with the least government interaction possible. I believe in traditional marriage, believe in personal responsibility. I also believe in compassion without sacrificing our values. Value signaling is a sin and very dangerous. I believe that it is job of the people, help their neighbors, the job of the church to show benevolence and charity, IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT"S JOB.


CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.

Strongly Agree

The government must partner with the parents in ensuring that American children are safe online and offline. The government's job is to gurantee the saftey of its citizens, including children.


2ND AMENDMENT

What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?

The 2nd Amendment guarantees the safety of American citizens, both from the government and from thugs, criminals, and terrorists. Every citizen must have the chance or choice to own a firearm to defend themselves. Restricting the ownership of firearms must be done only after a due process determination. The standard for determinations would be very rigorous, carried out only by a competent criminal justice system and or through an assessment of qualified mental health professionals.

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