Currently holds the office of Texas House of Representatives - District 51 until January 13, 2025.
Candidate for Texas House of Representatives - District 51 in 2024 Texas General Election.
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Get StartedProtect abortion access, add funding for the indigent, and restore Planned Parenthood to Title X funds. Learn more
Increase access to contraceptives, improve family planning services, and teach sex-ed. Learn more
Implement funding for indigent in need of abortion services so have equal access. Learn more
Reverse medically uncecessary bans and TRAP laws to make abortion safe, legal, and accessible. Learn more
End funding for alternatives to abortion and put into healthcare and family planning. Learn more
Push back on attacks on reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. Learn more
Stop attacks on trans kids and stand up for for equality for LGBTQIA community. Learn more
Require a duty to intervene when another officer is potentially using excessive force, and require a duty to render aid to those being detained or arrested or otherwise. Learn more
End use of chokeholds and reform use of force. Learn more
Collect better data in terms of interactions with law enforcement and traffic stops. Learn more
Focus on diversion programs; treatment, education, job skills, counseling while incarcerated, and throughout incarceration and not just at end; re-entry programs. Learn more
Lower penalties for non-violent offenses, resist escalations leading to severe sentencing. Learn more
Cease charging 17 year olds as adults. Learn more
Oppose mandatory cash bail, similar punitive measures touted as reforms. Learn more
End qualified immunity. Learn more
Eliminate no-knock warrants. Learn more
End zero tolerance policies and reduce criminal referrals from the school systems. Learn more
Create new revenue streams such as through the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis. Learn more
Release and expunge records of those with drug simple possession charges. Learn more
Expand apprenticeships, job training programs, and other opportunity for sustainable employment. Learn more
Reduce overreliance on standardized tests, punitive A-F ratings, and other school ratings tactics that do nothing to measure the actual learning going on in the classroom. Learn more
Oppose banning books and the teaching of accurate history or critical thinking. Learn more
Increase state funding for public schools to reduce recapture, lower property taxes, and increase educational outcomes for students while providing needed relief to teachers and administrators. Learn more
Raise teacher salaries across the board until they are competitive nationwide, provide more time for planning and less on administrative tasks, and increase mentorship for new teachers. Learn more
Stop expulsions and suspensions for Pre-K or other young students that inappropriately remove them from the classroom. Learn more
Provide a cost-of-living adjustment for retired educators and improve TRS-Care. Learn more
Eliminate loopholes to best practices around class size and similar. Learn more
Support a regulatory scheme that helps residents defend themselves from environmental hazards, and has actual punishments and teeth for polluters and abusers. Learn more
Stop attacks on local environmental ordinances, including trees, endangered species, and water. Learn more
Invest in alternative energy and green/clean energy jobs, including re-training programs. Learn more
Resist efforts to defund TERP or other programs designed to improve environmental equity. Learn more
Oppose environmental hazards in or near minority or low-income neighborhoods. Learn more
Work with local officials to purchase more voting machines, hire more poll workers, increase polling locations, and expand voting hours to the maximum allowed by law. Learn more
Make Texas college, government, and tribal IDs eligible for use as a Voter ID. Learn more
Expand voting access, end voter purges, and ban partisan intimidation by poll watchers. Learn more
Broaden voting by mail to any qualified voter, with no excuse needed or age restriction. Learn more
Implement online voter registration for any Texan as well as automatic and same-day registration. Learn more
Expand Medicaid to provide 1.5 million Texans access to care, bring 110B of our tax dollars home to help shore up healthcare infrastructure, lower uncompensated care costs, reduce all of our premiums, and save lives. Learn more
Increase parity for mental health with respect to insurance coverage and offer more mental health services in schools, as well as training for educators and education/awareness for parents. Learn more
Focus on maternal mortality, including implementing a full year postpartum Medicaid access and increasing cultural competency so that health concerns of women of color are taken seriously. Learn more
Increase transit and access to transportation services, including bicycling and bicycle lanes. Learn more
Close gaps in broadband access in underserved communities. Learn more
Reduce food desserts and increase access to healthy food choices. Learn more
Reverse the disastrous privatization efforts in the child welfare system. Learn more
Increase funding for staff, supplies, PPE, and sanitation to address complications to childcare brought on and exacerbated by COVID-19 and prevail on Congress to grant relief. Learn more
Eradicate the funding gap for CPS and Foster Care so that there are adequate resources to take care of Texas children as opposed to sleeping in office buildings or sending to unsafe placements out of state. Learn more
End spending on wasteful partisan priorities such as fake clinics and border walls and prioritize Texans basic needs. Learn more
Close corporate tax loopholes and franchise tax exemptions and raise the margins tax. Learn more
Move away from an unfair system based on property taxes and consumption taxes toward a more equitable system. Learn more
Resist attempts to undermine organizing/attempts at banning payroll deduction. Learn more
State workers need an across the board pay raise, cost of living adjustment for retirees, return pensions to defined benefit plan after move toward cash balance. Learn more
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