Nurse practitioner caring for uninsured folks. Peace Corps volunteer. Housing nonprofit board member. I'm a non establishment Democrat. We need real representation, not professional politicians.
We need to fund education. When public education advocates tell law makers how much money they need, law makers need to allocate that amount of money. Let ISDs determine priorities for their districts instead of increasing red tape in the Texas Education Agency. Roll back the voucher program. Education is the most important investment we have to ensure success and safety in our communities.
Population growth, EVs, and big data are skyrocketing our energy needs. We need to source dispatchable energy (gas, geothermal) responsibly while investing in renewables (wind/solar) and battery storage. Households deserve tax credits for efficient use and should always be prioritized over big data. The cost of living (including energy use) should not be cost prohibitive.
People are dying because the system is rigged against them. I see this first hand at work. Small business owners can't provide health insurance because it's cost prohibitive. Folks often have to cobble together 2 or 3 part time jobs that have no healthcare benefits. We need to ensure everyone has access to primary care and preventive health services. We can do this by expanding Medicaid.
We need laws that encourage (not hinder) voting. Voting by mail needs to be easier. We need more polling places. We need same day voter registration. We need to explore ranked voting. Gerrymandering is used by parties with bad ethics and losing ideas; it should be ruled unlawful. Democrats need to work harder than ever to appeal to broad coalitions to increase voter turnout.
A bilingual pre-K teacher, I became a union leader after organizing to save funding for full-day pre-K in Austin ISD. Later served as an officer at TX AFL-CIO and in Biden-Harris Dept of Education.
We must increase education funding, tie it to inflation, and close corporate tax loopholes. We should guarantee full-day Pre-K, free and healthy school meals, multilingual programs, and more funding for special education. Our teachers and staff need living wages and respect, not book bans, curriculum censorship, and partisan attacks. I also support lower tuition, academic freedom, and free speech.
Texas must strengthen its electric grid and transmission systems without putting the cost on consumers. I support investing in energy storage; improving efficiency; prioritizing wind, solar, and renewables; and expanding job training. We must cut pollution, protect land & water, keep energy affordable for families and businesses, regulate data centers, and hold utilities and industry accountable.
Every Texan deserves high-quality, affordable healthcare close to home. We should expand Medicaid and strengthen mental health care. We must restore reproductive freedom and ensure abortion, IVF, and birth control are accessible and affordable. I also support increasing access to primary care and improving state programs for early childhood screenings, vaccinations, and chronic disease prevention.
I became a citizen in 2012, and the right to vote is sacred to me. Texas should remove barriers that suppress participation, especially for young voters, people of color, seniors, and new citizens. I support online, same-day, and automatic voter registration; extended in-person voting hours; universal vote by mail; curbing interference from partisan poll watchers; and an end to voter purges.
In the Texas Legislature, I learned how policy and power work. I’m running to build community power, reform recapture, tackle affordability, and shape a government that delivers for working Texans.
There are big steps the Legislature must take. While lawmakers celebrate incremental “progress,” Texas students are losing teachers, resources, and neighborhood schools. We must fully fund public education, pay teachers competitively, and reform recapture so every district can support students equitably.
Texas must invest in a clean, renewable energy grid with weatherization and resilience to ensure reliable, affordable power. Additionally, the Legislature must hold companies accountable, protect consumers from price spikes, and back solutions that cut pollution and secure a sustainable future.
The state should prioritize ensuring all Texans have access to affordable, quality healthcare. The Legislature must expand Medicaid, raise provider rates, and invest in community and mental health services. Preventive care saves money and keeps families healthy.
Online voter registration is long overdue. Texas must expand access to voting and fight aggressively against any attacks. Lawmakers should protect early and mail-in voting, ensure well-staffed polling places, modernize infrastructure, and end voter suppression and intimidation.
A senior Obama State Dept official, U.S. Senate Counsel, and civil rights lawyer with 25+ years in public service, women’s rights, and K-16 ed. In Texas, as President and CEO of the Texas International Education Consortium, I united over 60 universities and colleges to bring global investment to our state. I will protect District 49’s autonomy and rights.
We must fully fund public schools and universities, and keep culture wars out. I will stop the demonization of our teachers and faculty, increase the basic student allotment for inflation, and invest in mental health. I’ll ensure schools prepare students for a global workforce and preserve and protect critical thinking. My vision includes strengthening the pipeline between K-12 and our world-class universities. Our state has an abundance of resources and we just need to harness and streamline them. We must ensure higher education remains affordable and inclusive. Every child deserves a high-quality education and parents deserve security.
The Legislature must prioritize Texas families over corporate profits. That means hardening the grid against extreme weather and holding power providers strictly accountable for reliability. Rather than fighting back bills that penalize renewable energy, the Lege must support its advancement. As Texas gets hotter and drier, we must advance bills that create shade, incentivize water sustainability, and help homeowners reduce energy costs. ERCOT must be held accountable. Texas is already an energy leader in wind and solar. Let's expand that. With smart oversight and greater focus on the future, we can build a resilient and clean energy system for Texas that sets the paradigm for the world.
Texas must put the health and safety of its diverse population first in order to enjoy continued economic growth and prosperity.
First, the state must expand access to healthcare and provide accountability for every dollar it spends. Every woman in Texas should have full access to maternal care and reproductive rights. Second, we must expand Medicaid, protect children’s health insurance, invest in public health, mental health, preventive care, and ensure no Texan is shut out for any reason. Let’s reduce cost and provide real solutions for Texans.
Our election laws should reflect what Texans want: fair maps, easy access, and a system that values and empowers voters. I’ve supervised elections around the world and have seen firsthand that democracy is precious and fragile. We need an Independent Redistricting Commission to end gerrymandering and restore fair maps. I support online voter registration and mail-in and early voting. As a civil rights attorney, I will ensure every eligible Texan can vote safely, and that poll workers are not intimidated. One person, one vote. There is no alternative.
For 16 years, I’ve worked in the House and Senate as a policy expert, legislative lawyer, and Senate Chief of Staff and General Counsel writing laws, passing strong bills, and defeating bad ones.
Education is our society's greatest equalizer. Texas must fully fund public schools and reduce reliance on local property taxes. We should raise and index the basic allotment to inflation, move to enrollment-based funding, replace the broken recapture system to keep local tax dollars in our local schools, give teachers permanent pay raises, and stop vouchers that drain public school resources.
Texas must lead with a balanced energy strategy that keeps power affordable, reliable, and clean. We should further diversify with solar, wind, geothermal, and battery storage to lower costs, not create disincentives. We should modernize the grid, enforce strong weatherization, and invest in transmission and storage to power our growing economy and keep the lights on for families and businesses.
Texas must expand Medicaid to cover over a million working Texans and bring our federal tax dollars home. We need major investments in primary care and GME so families aren’t stuck waiting months for care, real oversight to stop insurers from hiking premiums without added benefits, lower drug costs, cap insulin, protect reproductive freedom, and expand access to mental health care.
Texas should expand voting rights, not suppress them. I support online and same-day voter registration, automatic registration, universal vote-by-mail, longer early voting hours, and independent redistricting. Our elections must protect every eligible voter’s right to vote and remain secure, transparent, and free from partisan manipulation.
As a precinct chair, organizer, strategist and TDP staff, I've worked behind the scenes for 20 years. I bring a new progressive voice and experience going on offense to build power and create change.
Texas has been cutting education for decades, then complaining about the results. From technology and support staff to facilities and teachers being forced to take second jobs to make ends meet, let’s invest strategically in our students. Top-down solutions haven’t worked. Education policy should be based on what local educators and school boards tell us they need most, not on politics.
Failure to modernize cost us lives in '21 and millions of jobs after '23 as industries packed up and left. It's critical to invest now in public infrastructure to boost energy supply, efficiency, and security that lower costs for everyone. We must also break monopolies that exploit consumers in favor of billionaire corporations and overturn policies that prevent expansion of renewable resources.
Addressing healthcare, especially mental health and addiction, is at a critical point in Texas. It’s not a virtue to let anyone suffer needlessly due to a chronic condition or medical emergency. Texas should join other states and expand Medicaid. This federal funding will sustain and uplift healthcare infrastructure and stimulate our economy by expanding career opportunities in the field.
The greatest threat to our elections is propaganda used to justify access barriers for women, students and minorities esp. A public official willfully making false statements about elections and voter fraud should be guilty of a felony. Overturn policies that suppress turnout and streamline access with same-day registration, and right to a mail-in ballot for students, seniors and the disabled.
I’m an educator, researcher, and mother. A Council Member for more than a decade, I led major initiatives and stopped bad policies. I know how to stand up to the GOP. I am trusted, tested, and tough.
The Legislature should fully fund our public schools by increasing the per-student allotment; eliminating private school vouchers; and fixing the broken recapture system that requires AISD to send more money to the state each year than it keeps to meet the needs of its students. It should also implement a school accountability system that relies on more than just standardized test scores.
The Legislature must stop creating barriers for renewable energy. The Legislature should secure the reliability and resiliency of our state’s electric grid; support and invest in solar and wind projects, battery storage, energy efficiency, and demand reduction; and expand air quality monitoring. Texas must also implement strong rules to regulate energy- and water-intensive data centers.
State government has a responsibility to support the health and welfare of Texans. To help promote a healthy Texas, the Legislature should expand affordable housing options and access to healthy food; address food insecurity; and invest in early childhood education. Texans deserve affordable healthcare; the state should expand Medicaid and thus provide more access to affordable health insurance.
Texas should stop enacting racist, gerrymandered maps and laws that restrict voter access. Texas should pass a Voting Rights Act to expand access for eligible voters to allow online and same-day voter registration, promote vote-by-mail options, accept more forms of ID at polls including college photo IDs, and make it easier for eligible voters who have moved to have their votes count.
I'm a proud product of AISD, MIT and Harvard Law School. I currently serve you on the TCAD. I’m an energy attorney by trade, and have been active in the Democratic ecosystem for over a decade.
Texas should treat public education like critical infrastructure: fully funded, fairly distributed, and insulated from culture-war micromanagement. As a product of AISD public schools and as your next State Rep., I would focus on raising the basic allotment and tying it to inflation, fix school finance including reforming Robin Hood so AISD dollars stay in AISD, and continue opposing voucher scams
Texas can have reliable, affordable power and protect the environment but only through intelligent policy. My expertise will be crucial to fixing the grid. I prioritize reliability, consumer protection, and non-partisan expertise. We need smarter oversight over data centers and our grid needs to be modernized with union labor. Texas also needs a diversified generation mix, including renewables.
Healthcare is a human right. A healthy Texas is more productive, more affordable, and more free. When people skip care because it’s too expensive, we all pay later in ER overload, medical debt, and preventable tragedies. As your next State Rep, I will prioritize expanding Medicaid, invest in mental health, fight to roll back post-Dobbs restrictions, and strengthen community clinics
Texas should make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. Right now, too many rules are designed to discourage participation and create confusion especially for seniors, people with disabilities, students, and working Texans with long shifts. As your next State Rep, I will focus on online voter registration, expanding early voting, and better funding election administration.
