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Better funding for our Texas public schools, building on the progress of the 2019 legislative session
Continuing to rein in local property taxes through expanded homestead exemptions and by properly funding public education at the state level
Traditional principles of local control for cities and counties
Accepting the billions of our own federal tax dollars that are available under the Affordable Care Act to expand health coverage in Texas
Improving Texas’s mental health and foster care systems
Greater support for drug abuse prevention and rehabilitation
Investing in good roads and transportation infrastructure
Better state support for higher education, to maintain world-class colleges and universities and to help keep tuition costs down
Better protections for clean air and water and for Texas’s parks and natural spaces
Fiscal responsibility and living within our means at all levels of government
Our police officers, firefighters, and other first responders
Our military and our veterans
Public health policies that align with the best research from our medical community
Working together across the political aisle to find solutions to complex problems
Protecting the integrity of our electoral system
High ethical standards at every level of government
The Constitution, the rule of law, and judicial independence
The increasing lack of civility and decency in politics at all levels
The Legislature artificially limiting the City of Dallas’s ability to set its own budget priorities for police, fire, streets, libraries, parks, and other city services
Using taxpayer dollars to fund private school vouchers
Efforts to deport DACA recipients
Divisive and unnecessary bills, such as the “bathroom bill”, which pit Texans against one another
Loopholes in our screening system that still allow convicted felons and domestic abusers to obtain guns without background checks
Efforts to eliminate our licensing and permitting system for carrying handguns
Political gerrymandering
Discrimination in any form, based on race, ethnicity, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation or identity, or disability
Extremist politics that divide our nation and our state