Progressive Texas Values
Stronger Public Schools
Our public schools are pillars of our communities and economy. I know from my own experience in our public schools how hard parents and teachers work to ensure their children receive the best education possible.
Invest in Texas
Over 80 years ago, legendary Texas progressives like Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson helped lead the nation in building our modern infrastructure: our electricity grid, our highways, our Farm-to-Market roads, our dams and lakes, and our hiking trails and green spaces.
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Expand Medicaid & Healthcare
Every Texan has a right to healthcare. Yet Texas is last place in healthcare coverage, and Dallas has the 2nd highest uninsured rate of any large city.
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Empower Texas Workers & Economic Justice
We live in a country where wages have been held flat for 50 years! Meanwhile, rent is up over 700%, healthcare costs are up over 500%, higher education costs are up nearly 200%, and childcare costs have nearly doubled. These trends wreak havoc on Texas households. If wages had kept growing like they used to, the average person would earn DOUBLE what they do today.
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End Mass Incarceration
If Texas were its own country (again), we would have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Despite crime rates peaking in 1992 and then falling dramatically, prison populations nearly doubled after that. Mass incarceration is an unconscionable trend that has decimated families and communities, with Black and Brown communities hit hardest.
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Voting Rights — “Top 10 in 10!”
Texas is the hardest state to vote in, which is why we’re usually dead last in voter turnout or just near it. This is a crisis. Instead of politicians in Austin trying to make it even harder to vote, we should be making it easier for Texans to participate in our democracy. That’s why we’ve introduced the Texas “Top 10 in 10!” campaign: lets take Texas into the top 10 of voting states in the next 10 years.
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Y’all Means All
Texas is one of the most diverse states in one of the most diverse countries in the world. Dallas is the #4 most diverse city in the U.S. For centuries, all different walks of life have been drawn to the allure & opportunity of Texas. “G.T.T.” or Gone To Texas, has been a guiding motto for centuries of aspirant Texans. In order to keep this great tradition of Texas opportunity alive, we must update our anti-discrimination laws to protect ALL Texans.
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Texas for All
Texas for All is an extensive policy roadmap to make sure we have a Texas that works for ALL of us. The platform has 8 parts with over 5 dozen proposals: from empowering Texas workers and our economy, strengthening public education and voting rights, rebuilding our infrastructure, expanding healthcare, child care and environmental conservation, to reforming our housing and criminal justice systems — We have a plan for that!
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“Any jackass can kick down a barn. But it takes a good carpenter to build one.”
Sam Rayburn, Progressive Texas Democrat, New Deal Architect, Longest Serving Speaker of the House in History
“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”
Lyndon B. Johnson, Progressive Texas Democrat, 36th President of The United States
