A Text Message, A Suicide, and A Congressman’s Career in the Balance
Rogue Energy
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales is facing calls for his resignation after a former staffer’s text came to light this week. That staffer died by suicide last year by setting herself on fire. In the newly uncovered text message, she appears to confirm an affair with the married Republican and father of six.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. It is Friday, February 20th, and a Texas congressman is facing increasing |
| 0:13.1 | scrutiny and calls for his resignation over an alleged affair with a staffer who later set herself on fire. |
| 0:24.3 | With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, I said that accurately. The details here |
| 0:30.8 | are incredible. But Representative Tony Gonzalez, a lot of people don't know that name, but he is |
| 0:35.9 | in the middle of it right now. |
| 0:43.2 | Well, and anyone who is in his district, he is actually currently running for his fourth term. |
| 0:51.2 | So he's a well-known figure locally, but yes, now he is becoming a nationally known name because of this growing scandal. |
| 0:58.1 | There are allegations, yes, that he had an affair with his staffer. And the accusation is now coming from a former staffer, a former congressional aide who says and has shown a media |
| 1:05.2 | outlet a screenshot of a text from this staffer before she died by suicide. And yes, she lit herself on fire. |
| 1:15.7 | That is how she died. She sent him a text confirming that she was having or had had an affair |
| 1:23.4 | with Representative Tony Gonzalez. And so it looks as though that is legit. They have gone back and |
| 1:30.8 | looked to see that this did come from her account, and the scandal is now growing. |
| 1:37.5 | So Representative Gonzalez, again, locked in a fight right now. He does have the endorsement |
| 1:41.4 | of President Trump got that at the end of last year. |
| 1:44.8 | But these accusations, at least, over an alleged affair did start popping up at the end of last year. |
| 1:50.6 | Now, he has denied the allegations. He called them smears. We'll give you an update on what he said |
| 1:56.1 | about this particular latest. But the reason now robs, that's one thing for a tabloid to report it and allegations |
| 2:01.9 | of this and that and it goes away. The reason now it has come back to the forefront, |
| 2:06.6 | Robes, is because, yes, that text message you describe, and a lot of people allow learning |
| 2:11.3 | about the woman who sent that text message. This is, and we should be clear here, there is no one suggesting that this |
| 2:19.5 | woman took her own life because of this affair, right? That direct connection has not been made. |
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