Loading this committee’s profile from its FEC filings.
Where They Stand is a nonpartisan guide to everyone running for Congress: their money, their own words and how incumbents voted. Find your ballot →
PACs › Party committee (qualified) › 2025–2026
Texas Democratic Party
Party committee (qualified)Dallas, TexasActive
Connected organization: Talarico Victory Fund
The Texas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Texas and one of the two major political parties in the state. The party's headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Texas Democrat. 39 out of the 48 politicians who have served as Governor of Texas have been Texas Democrats. The party used to be the dominant political party in Texas; however, like in other Southern states, its rival, the Republican Party of Texas has become the dominant party since the 1990s. Texas has not elected any Democratic candidates to statewide office since 1994. Texas has the longest streak of any state for not electing Democrats to any statewide office, and has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1976. The party used to support racial segregation and held white-only primaries until the Texas primary cases; however, it has adopted liberal attitudes on race and other matters since the 1960s. Similar to the national Democratic Party, Texas Democrats currently support increasing educational funding, abortion access, cannabis legalization, LGBT rights, environmentalism, gun control, Medicaid expansion, and raising the minimum wage. Black Texans, Latino Texans, young Texans, and Texans who live in urban areas are more likely to support the party than other demographic groups. However, Latino Texans have shifted towards the Republican Party in recent elections. (Linked public record: Wikipedia organization profile)
- Raised
- $13.8M
- $13,773,649
- Spent
- $12.7M
- $12,725,931
- Cash on hand
- $1.1M
- $1,147,041
FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026 · FEC bulk filing data · committee C00099267 · files monthly
- Why it exists
- In its own words, filed under Electing a party's candidates. Read the statement
- Top priorities
- BUILDING A STRONGER TEXAS, TOGETHER
- PREAMBLE
- Increasing Grocery Affordability
- Increasing Housing Affordability
- Lower Taxes
- Money
- $13.8M raised, $12.7M spent, $1.1M cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who funds it
- 53% in transfers from related committees · 14% from donors giving over $200 · largest donor Talarico Victory Fund, $3M. See who funds it
- Where it goes
- $3K against them, most on TX-SEN ($3K). See where it goes
- Audits and penalties
- 1 audit report, published by the FEC
Why this committee exists In its own words
“We are the Texas Democratic Party. We're focused on lowering costs, raising wages, and ending political corruption in the Lone Star State. Learn more about who we are, how to get involved, and everything you need to know at the ballot box.”
Texas Democratic Party, on its own site, texasdemocrats.org
Quoted from the committee's site, or its sponsor's or funder's where its own says nothing. The statement is filed under topics from a fixed list, chosen by AI models when two of three agree; which side it takes is in its own words.
20 priorities from the committee’s own site, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
WHAT WE BELIEVE ↗ (opens texasdemocrats.org at this heading)
We believe in a Texas where democracy belongs to everyone. Where rights are protected, voices are heard, and privacy is honored. Where opportunity is real—good schools, good jobs, good health, and safe homes. Where clean air, clean water, and fair treatment are not privileges but promises. We believe a strong economy lifts people, not just profits. That dignity in work matters. That fairness in law matters. That compassion in policy matters. We believe our diversity is our strength, our innovation is our engine, and our government should serve the people —openly, honestly, and ethically.
"We have a vision of a Texas where opportunity knows no race, no gender, no color — a glimpse of what can happen in government if we simply open the doors and let the people in."
—Governor Ann Richards, Inaugural address, January 15, 1991
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · texasdemocrats.org
Heading as listed on texasdemocrats.org ↗ (opens texasdemocrats.org at this heading)
The State Party Platform is a distillation of broad ideals shared by all Democrats across the State of Texas.
Individual campaigns raise individual voices across the Democratic ideological spectrum...Despite differences, these things unite us.
Texas Democrats have faith that democracy, built on the honored values of family, privacy, freedom, and fairness, can (and should) afford every Texan, without exception, the opportunity to achieve their inherent potential.
It was true then; it is true now.
Every campaign gives its candidate a voice.
The Platform speaks for us all.
Texas Democrats believe in freedom:
- The right to privacy;
- Limited government interference in our private lives and personal decisions;
- Civil and human rights;
- Religion and individual conscience;
- No favoring of a religion or prohibiting of the free exercise of religion.
Texas Democrats believe in responsibility:
- That religion and individual conscience can never serve to excuse hatred and discrimination;
- That people are responsible for their actions;
- That we, who have benefited so greatly from our state and country, have a responsibility to support and give back to our communities and public institutions;
- That corporations are not people and should not be used to shield individuals from the responsibilities of their actions.
Texas Democrats believe in equal rights:
- Equality under the law guaranteed in Section 3a of the Texas Bill of Rights
- No state may deny any person equal protection of the laws or due process under the law as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Texas Democrats believe in equal opportunity for all Texans:
- To receive a quality public education, from early childhood through college;
- To have access to affordable health care;
- To find a good job with dignity;
- To buy or rent a good home in a safe community;
- To breathe clean air and drink clean water; &
- To have our voices heard and not be drowned out by the power of unlimited money to influence or buy elections and legislation.
A growing economy should benefit all Texans.;
That every person should be paid a living wage;
Good businesses offer fair deals for customers;
That regulation of unfair practices and rates is necessary
That the burden of taxes should be fairly distributed; &
Texas Democrats believe in an America:
- Where the government must be of the people, by the people, and for the people;
- Where the goal of government is to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty;
- Made stronger by the men and women who put their lives on the line when it is necessary to engage our military to secure our nation;
- Made more secure by competent diplomatic leadership that utilize the moral, ethical, and economic assets of a powerful, free nation to avoid unnecessary military conflict; &
- Where we must constantly strive to form a more perfect union.
Texas Democrats believe in a Texas:
- Made stronger by the contributions of our diverse population, and the equitable inclusion of all our people;
- Blessed with economic opportunities provided by agriculture, “old” and “new” energy sources, renowned medical and research institutions, strong unions, and high-tech industries; &
- With an honest, ethical state government that serves the public interest, not the special interests of those who “pay-to-play.”
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · 5aa41392-2958-4609-a10f-4bbd79e2f348.filesusr.com/ugd/061e99_153b98fadd5d43039829c3ce89c47905.pdf
6 Good Jobs & Workers’ Rights Texas Democrats believe in the right to Collectively Bargain, and to a living wage that supports their families during times of both prosperity and economic distress.
Protect existing jobs;
Create new jobs in emerging industries and public works;
Promote jobs with good wages, benefits, and safe working conditions;
Expand access to affordable housing;
Reward hard work and innovation;
Expand and protect workers’ rights; &
Improve Texans’ overall standard of living.
Good Jobs Texas Democrats support:
- Texas workers receiving a living wage, indexed to the Consumer Price Index;
- Protecting individual dignity and safety in the workplace;
- Raising the federal tipped minimum-wage to be commensurate with the general federal minimum-wage, indexed to the Consumer Price Index;
- Repealing state pre-emption of local minimum-wage ordinances and support the right of cities and counties to set wages above the state minimum;
- Fair trade deals that protect and bring back American jobs; &
- Strengthening existing protections and creating meaningful consequences for employers who commit literal wage theft, as defined by the National Employment Law Project such as creating a private right of action for workers, imposing criminal felony penalties for repeat offenders, and providing state funding for wage theft enforcement units in major metropolitan areas.
Workers’ Rights and Protections Texas Democrats support:
- Repealing the ironically named “right-to-work” laws that allow employers to fire a worker for nearly any reason, and are designed to weaken labor unions;
- Protecting & expanding workers’ right to join a union, organize and collectively bargain for better compensation, benefits, & working conditions without intimidation, retaliation, or interference;
- Guaranteeing equal pay for equal work;
- Guaranteeing safe and dignified working conditions and workplace environments;
- Regular cost-of-living increases that keep pace with inflation;
- Workplace accommodations for child nursing;
- Payment of prevailing wages for public projects;
- Requiring employers to carry Workers’ Compensation insurance in Texas;
- Ending misclassification of workers as independent contractors and of non-exempt employees as exempt employees to ensure proper access to pay and benefits;
- Codifying protections against union-busting attacks or punishing prohibitions on payroll, deduction of union dues, etc.;
- Ensuring Texas’ judicial system protects the civil rights of labor organizers, campaign workers, & those working to improve workers’ rights;
- Eradicating workplace discrimination in all its forms, including prejudice against workers of a protected class, and opposing efforts to eliminate ‘disparate impact liability’ for employers; 7
- Opposing state preemption attempts to “roll back” local non-discrimination ordinances or religious exemptions to generally applied laws; &
- Eliminating forced or coerced labor, including but not limited to, human trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and the exploitation of migrant labor.
Workforce Development Texas Democrats support:
- Providing access to skills-training, jobs, and job promotions to all, including women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and the underemployed;
- Offering Apprenticeship Readiness Programs and U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Programs for high-skill building trades to all, including workers, high school students, and college students;
- Addressing the negative effects of worker displacement when new technologies, such as automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence are adopted;
- Partnerships among educational institutions, labor unions, employers, & community organizations to strengthen workforce readiness.
Economic Prosperity & Business Opportunities Texas Democrats support:
- Ensuring business incentive programs are transparent, accountable, and only used to create well-paying jobs with good benefits;
- Bringing well-paying jobs to every part of Texas by ensuring infrastructure development projects flow to urban, suburban, and rural communities alike;
- Prioritizing support and opportunities for small businesses at the local, state, and federal level to meaningfully compete with large corporations;
- Making it affordable for small businesses to provide health insurance for their employees;
- Expanding access to capital and credit for low-income and rural small businesses;
- Expanding programs supporting small businesses owned by women & minorities;
- Expanding programs supporting small businesses owned by people of color;
- Expanding mentorship programs;
- Policies that expand funding & accessibility to affordable, high-quality childcare;
- Promoting the benefits and the implementation of the 32-hour work week for Full-Time Employees without loss of pay;
- Establishing state tax incentives for innovative business models, including cooperative businesses, and directing state economic development programs to include cooperative businesses in lending and grant programs; &
- Exploring public banking models to invest public funds in infrastructure, housing, small business development, and economic growth that strengthen local economies, increase financial transparency, and ensure responsible management of public funds.
Economic Safety Net Texas Democrats support:
- Protecting and expanding Social Security;
- Expanding Medicare & Medicaid/Accepting Federal offer for such expansion;
- Ensuring the unemployment insurance system and income safety nets are modern, accessible, efficient, and therefore reliable, for Texas workers, especially in times of economic distress;
- Guaranteeing paid sick leave, paid vacation leave, and paid family leave; &
- Safeguarding retirement and health benefits.
8 Consumer Protection Our government has a duty to protect Texans from predatory lending, dangerous products, price gouging during natural disasters and other fraudulent, and other unfair or discriminatory business practices.
Texas Democrats aim to make consumer financial markets work for consumers, responsible product/service providers, and the economy.
Foster financial literacy, from early childhood through retirement;
Educate Texans about their financial rights, protections, and opportunities; &
Educate companies about financial rights, protections, and opportunities.
Strengthening laws targeting unscrupulous telemarketing, internet marketing, and price fixing;
Make price gouging during disasters, especially by utility companies, illegal;
Allow class-certification on fraud, product liability, and personal injury claims;
9 Monopolies, Co-Ops, & Anti-Trust Texas Democrats support action to:
- Break up monopolies across all industries to promote economic competition;
- Protect the creation of worker co-ops;
- Break up monopolies that control feed, seed, equipment, buyers, sellers, and other parts of the agricultural market, to ensure family farms can fairly compete;
- Ensure that American consumers have actual choices at their local grocery stores by breaking up monopolies that own a majority of brands, and spinning off competitive companies in an effort to stabilize pricing;
- Oppose any agricultural or grocery corporate mergers that pose monopolization;
- Counter monopoly power in Texas and strengthen oversight to protect consumers and ensure reliable services;
- Ensure farmers have the ‘Right to Repair’ their agricultural equipment, and protect the Right to Repair from being undone by international trade deals;
- Ensure chicken farmers and other livestock ranchers maintain the right to own, control, and otherwise manage their livestock instead of corporations determining all matters without input or consent of the local producers; &
- Promote the creation and protection of co-ops to compete with ‘Big Ag’ and other harmful monopolies.
Capping Junk Fees Texas Democrats support:
- Requiring all mandatory fees of any transaction to be included in the advertised price via all-in pricing;
- Minimizing surprise fees for in-person services and requiring customer notification and consent before such fees are to be incurred;
- Capping credit card late fees at $8;
- Eliminating excessive overdraft fees, monthly maintenance fees, dormancy/inactivity fees, ATM fees, foreign transaction fees, and wire transfer fees from personal banking;
- Reducing or eliminating excessive credit card swipe fees for customer transactions at local businesses; &
- Limiting excessive or hidden fees on all consumer purchases.
Empower, Enforce, Educate Texas Democrats support State action to:
- Empower consumers;
- Increase purchasing power by supporting the purpose, mission, enforcement function, and authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and any State analogue;
- Enforce penalties against companies who have taken advantage of Texans in violation of state or federal law; &
- Educate the public and Texas students regarding financial literacy, credit scores, budgeting, saving and investing, business & consumer rights, and other financial-related knowledge and concepts.
Move Texas toward universal availability of publicly funded healthcare;
Expand Medicaid and healthcare access across Texas;
Lower or cap prescription drug prices;
Expand mental health and substance use disorder treatment;
Support preventive healthcare, medical research, & evidence-based public health initiatives;
Reduce healthcare disparities for marginalized and underserved communities;
Require universal acceptance of TRICARE at medical facilities.
Medicaid Expansion and Protection Texas Democrats support:
- Expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to provide coverage for millions of Texans;
- Increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates;
- Removing Medicaid work requirement;
- Reducing the Medicaid Waiver waitlists;
- Guaranteeing at least 12-months of continuous postpartum Medicaid coverage;
- Expanding eligibility to ensure access to care before, during, and after pregnancy;
- Increase the Medicaid provider pay to a livable wage with regular increases indexed with COLA; &
- Protecting children and vulnerable Texans from unnecessary loss of coverage through burdensome state policies.
Universal Affordable, Quality Healthcare Texas Democrats support:
- Protect coverage for pre-existing conditions and comprehensive healthcare benefits under the Affordable Care Act;
- Establish a universal healthcare system, including a public option, while preserving patient choice of providers;
- Lower prescription drug prices through negotiation authority and protections against price gouging;
- Lower pharmacy costs by limiting ownership by Pharmacy Benefit Managers;
- Capping out-of-pocket insulin prices at $35 per month; 11
- End surprise billing, excessive facility fees, and insurance practices that deny medically necessary care;
- Expand long-term care, home-based services, and disability supports for older adults and people with disabilities; &
- Reduce financial barriers to Medicare coverage and essential healthcare services.
Reproductive Freedom, Personal Choices, & Abortion Access Texas Democrats support:
- Expanding access to contraception through insurance coverage and through public programs;
- Restoring the right of Texans to make personal decisions about pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive healthcare;
- Restoring access to abortion care by repealing Texas's abortion ban, the Texas Heartbeat Act, and medication abortion limitations;
- Protecting access to contraception, IVF, prenatal care, postpartum care, and gender-based healthcare;
- Restoring access to reproductive & preventive healthcare providers serving Medicaid patients;
- Funding qualified reproductive healthcare providers, including Planned Parenthood;
- Ensuring emergency medical care, including abortion care when medically necessary, is available without political interference;
- Protecting the right to travel for legal medical care;
- Safeguarding patient privacy;
- Comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education that includes consent, healthy relationships, and medically accurate reproductive health information;
- Support pregnant and parenting teens with healthcare, education, & childcare resources;
- Oppose deceptive anti-abortion centers that provide inaccurate medical information; &
- Funding postpartum depression research, counseling, and treatment.
Preventive Healthcare Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- Promote scientifically proven and safe vaccinations, nutrition education, physical activity, and disease prevention programs;
- Increasing robust access to fresh, healthy, and culturally relevant foods in rural and underserved communities by integrating nutrition services into public health and health care delivery systems;
- Invest in public health research, emergency preparedness, and scientific healthcare practices;
- Expand partnerships among health care providers, food banks, farmers, community organizations, schools, and local governments to improve access to nutritious foods and reduce health disparities;
- Protect HIV prevention funding, and expanding communicable disease education and treatment;
- Expand community healthcare centers and increase access to primary care providers, especially in underserved areas;
- Reject misinformation that undermines science-based healthcare practices;
- Support trauma-informed care and prevention programs addressing adverse childhood experiences; 12
- Expand harm reduction programs, including access to Narcan, fentanyl testing strips, and safe syringe programs; &
- Allow healthcare professionals to practice to the full extent of their training and licensure to address provider shortages.
Eliminate Health Disparities Texas Democrats support:
- Reducing disparities in healthcare access and outcomes across racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic, disability, gender identity, and LGBTQIA+ communities;
- Ending the maternal mortality and morbidity crisis in Texas, particularly among Black women, through increased funding for maternal health services, including restoring and expanding labor and delivery services in rural hospitals, strengthening the maternal health workforce, and supporting community-based providers such as midwives and doulas;
- Expand healthcare access in rural communities through telehealth, rural hospitals, and workforce incentives; &
- Protecting and expanding access to medically necessary gender-affirming healthcare based on established medical standards and scientific consensus.
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services Texas Democrats support:
- Additional funding of 988 and local suicide/crisis hotlines to appropriate levels;
- Increasing state mental health funding to at least the national per capita average, with investment in community mental health centers, crisis stabilization units, and mobile crisis teams;
- Expanding insurance coverage and reimbursement rates for mental health and substance use disorder providers;
- Increasing access to community-based, inpatient, outpatient, and telehealth mental healthcare services;
- Expanding provider training in trauma-informed and evidence-based care, including culturally competent care for marginalized communities;
- Expanding mental healthcare infrastructure and services in rural and underserved communities;
- Investing in suicide prevention education, mental health awareness, and crisis intervention programs, including public service announcements (PSAs), community outreach, and culturally competent education campaigns aimed at reducing stigma and encouraging individuals to seek help;
- Legalization of psilocybin-, ketamine-, and MDMA-based therapies for supervised clinical treatment of PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, and addiction disorders;
- Supporting harm reduction and recovery-focused approaches to substance use disorder;
- Legalization of psilocybin-, ketamine-, and MDMA-based therapies for supervised clinical treatment of PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, and addiction disorders;
- Establishing a regulated framework for licensed medical professionals; &
- Prevent committing people experiencing homelessness to mental health facilities against their will when there is no clear mental health crisis that would warrant it.
Universal pre-K;
Fully-funding public schools;
Respect for educators;
Inclusive learning environments;
Affordable and accessible higher education opportunities.
Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- Fully fund public schools;
- Base funding on enrollment, the actual costs of educating all students, including those with disabilities, and multilingual learners; Increase teacher and staff pay to competitive national levels and improve benefits, retirement security, and working conditions;
- Protect and strengthen neighborhood public schools;
- Repeal the Texas school voucher scheme and oppose implementation, expansion, and continued public funding of any mechanism that diverts taxpayer money from public schools to private institutions;
- Oppose public education privatization schemes and the unaccountable expansion of charter schools;
- Require public dollars spent on private school vouchers be considered Public Information and therefore subject to Open Records Requests;
- Guarantee safe, inclusive, and accessible classrooms, free from discrimination, bullying, censorship, political interference, and religious persuasion and persecution;
- Expand access to full-day pre-K, multilingual education, arts, music, STEAM, vocational, & dual-credit programs;
- Ensure schools have counselors, nurses, librarians, mental health services, after-school programs, updated technology, Arts classes, & accessible facilities;
- Replace high-stakes standardized testing with multiple measures that support student growth & learning;
- Support curricula reflecting the diverse cultural history of Texas communities;
- Support ethnic studies and LGBTQIA+ inclusion;
- Protect the rights of undocumented children to be students;
- Expand nutrition education and healthy food access programs
- Fully support, and fully fund, services and accommodations for students receiving special education or Section 504 services; 14
- Reduce the school-to-prison pipeline via restorative and research-based approaches;
- End discriminatory discipline practices and ban corporal punishment;
- Keep schools primarily weapon-free, except for trained law enforcement & security personnel, & prohibit traumatic active shooter simulations; and
- Build learning environments where every student and educator is fully protected from the threat of gun violence, and reduce and eliminate gun violence in educational spaces by addressing its root causes.
Guaranteeing each classroom has a properly certified/highly qualified teacher;
Protecting and strengthening the Teacher Retirement System (TRS);
Ending the use of high-stakes testing in teacher evaluations;
Ending the use of value-added models in teacher evaluations;
Protecting educators' freedom of speech outside of the workplace; &
Protecting educators from selective targeting, harassment, bullying, and hate speech.
Protecting and Improving Texas Public Education Texas Democrats support:
- An equitable school finance system that reduces overreliance on local property taxes and fully funds public education mandates;
- Local control through democratically elected school boards, reflective of their communities; and restricting circumstances for forcible and overreaching state intervention and takeover;
- Strong oversight of homeschooling and charter expansion;
- Transparency and accountability for charter schools receiving public funds, including open meetings, financial oversight, & conflict-of-interest protections;
- Community schools that provide wraparound educational, health, & social services to students and families;
- Protection of academic freedom, accurate and unbiased history education, and access to diverse perspectives and materials;
- Developing curricula & instructional material standards after consulting qualified experts using classroom teacher selected curriculum, rather than partisan ideology;
- Respecting the constitutional separation of church and state by restoring secular spaces and curriculum in public schools; &
- Texas Democrats object to programs like the Bluebonnet Learning Curriculum, and similar programs, that withhold teachers’ and school districts’ funding hostage to partisan curriculum programs.
15 Expanding Opportunities for Every Child Texas Democrats support:
- Universal pre-K, and access to free school breakfast, lunch, after-school snacks, & summer meal programs;
- Individualized academic support and inclusive instruction that meets each student’s individual needs;
- Equitable access to counseling, mental health services, healthcare supports, & extracurricular opportunities;
- Fully-funded career and technical education classes or programs, apprenticeship pathways, & college readiness programs;
- Comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education that is medically accurate and LGBTQIA+ inclusive;
- Policies and programs that identify and prevent bullying, harassment, discrimination, including cyberbullying and identity-based harassment;
- Adult education and workforce development opportunities for re-enrolling Texans;
- Protecting and encouraging students' respectful free speech and free expression; &
- Data transparency and accountability to address disparities in discipline, achievement, and access.
Post-Secondary Education Texas Democrats support:
- Increasing access to free or reduced tuition, safe, high-quality post-secondary education, including universities, community colleges, and trade schools for students who are residents of the State of Texas;
- Reducing financial barriers, expanding student opportunities, access, equity, and diversity on campus;
- Restoring academic freedom to students and faculty, including the freedoms to discuss, teach, research, and publish without political interference; &
- Reinstate the status of public college and university campuses as public forums, and other beacons of free and open expression, without threat or fear of retaliation.
Higher Education Texas Democrats support:
- Affordable and debt-free higher education through tuition reduction, expanded grants, loan relief, and interest-free student loans;
- Reinstating in-state tuition for DREAMers/DACA students and expanding their financial aid opportunities;
- Equitable funding across all regions of Texas for public universities, HBCUs, historically minority-serving institutions, and research institutions;
- Student success initiatives that improve retention rates, graduation rates, and workforce readiness;
- Strong labor protections, fair pay, academic freedom for faculty & university staff;
- Affordable textbooks, minimal mandatory institutional and instructional fees, paid internships, apprenticeships, and workforce pathways;
- Campus environments where all students have access to mentorship, support services, and leadership opportunities;
- Legislation that prohibits college athletes from playing for Texas public universities where they have been engaging in sports betting for, or against, their own team;
- Student representation in university governance;
- Protecting tenure, free expression, and independent faculty governance; &
- Eliminating discriminatory barriers to admission.
16 Community Colleges and Trade Schools Texas Democrats support:
- Tuition-free community college;
- Public trade school opportunities for Texas high school graduates;
- Full funding for community colleges, workforce programs, Adult Basic Education, and career and technical education partnerships;
- Universal transferability of community college credits;
- Financial aid policies that support transfer and nontraditional students; &
- Fair pay, benefits, and retirement security for community college employees.
Diversity and Safety Texas Democrats support:
- Maintaining pathways like the “Top 10% Rule” to ensure broad access to higher education;
- Inclusive campus environments that reflect the diversity of Texas and prohibit discrimination or harassment based on identity or expression;
- Strong protections against sexual violence and harassment on campuses;
- Repealing campus carry policies and protecting the safety and First Amendment rights of peaceful student protesters;
- Restoring and protecting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, staff, and support centers as well as ethnic and gender studies departments at Texas public colleges and universities; &
- Research and scholarship that examines inequality, opportunity, and the diverse experiences of Texans.
Future generations demand this of us; we must deliver.
Reform the Texas Railroad Commission;
Promote environmental protection and enforcement of existing laws;
Preserve Texas’ wildlife, parks, and open spaces;
Improve recycling and waste reduction;
Develop clean energy resources, promote alternative fuel vehicle, &
Promote energy-efficient buildings & appliances.
Leading the Global Clean-Energy Revolution Texas Democrats support:
- Leveraging innovation in clean energy to secure the cleanliness of our air and water, through investment in transmission infrastructure, job training, innovation, & equitable access to clean energy for America, both nationally and in Texas;
- Federal efforts to consider the climate, environmental justice, and consumer cost impacts of the approval of new liquid natural gas terminals;
- Streamlining the permitting process for building new electric transmission lines to provide greater stability and capacity to the electric grid;
- Supporting vigorous enforcement and implementation of the Regional Haze Rule, National Ambient Air Quality Standards (including Ozone, Particulate Matter and Sulfur Dioxide), the Methane Rule, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, and the Chemical Safety Rule;
- Developing a statewide climate action plan that will achieve emission reductions in Texas;
- Promoting strong energy efficiency utility goals, energy efficiency appliance standards and green building policies;
- Undo state and federal subsidies and tax incentives for anti-competitive oil & gas production;
- Fully fund the “Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Fund” administered by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to offer incentives for clean vehicles and infrastructure, including electric vehicles and storage;
- Funding education programs promoting the benefits of energy conservation;
- Implement technical and academic programs that place Texas at the forefront of renewable energy, battery, smart grid, building conservation, and electric transportation technology;
- Offer financial incentives for the manufacturing of American-made equipment for alternative energy, storage, grid, transportation, and conservation to achieve the goal of measurably reducing coal and oil consumption for electricity and transportation in Texas;
- Supporting federal legislation to share offshore wind lease and production revenues with Texas and other states and creating a new stream of funding for coastal infrastructure and flood resiliency projects by getting wind turbines up and running;
- Add charging stations for electric vehicles at all state highway rest stops; & 18
- Address the impact climate change will have on military readiness, military installations, and military life, including motivating legislators and Veterans to advocate for necessary environmental modifications.
Reformation of the Texas Railroad Commission (TRRC) Texas Democrats support:
- Change the name of the agency to better reflect its role and jurisdiction over oil & gas operations and implement the previous Sunset Commission’s recommendations;
- Use TRRC regulatory power as a means of protecting the health, welfare, and property of Texans rather rubber stamping the industry and its profit-margins;
- Adopt newer, stricter rules on injection wells to prevent earthquakes and to avoid contamination of water resources;
- Ban political contributions to TRRC Commissioners from the oil industry;
- Ensure penalties levied by the TRRC are significant enough to deter polluting practices;
- Implement a transparent process to confirm that entities declaring common carrier status for pipelines are actually operating as common carriers, not as private entities; &
- Expand authority over intrastate pipelines to inspect, monitor, and review pipeline safety.
Recycling and Waste Reduction Texas Democrats support:
- Reducing the use of natural resources, while supporting reuse and recycling;
- Encouraging the reduction of use of unnecessary single-use plastics;
- Keeping e-waste out of the waste stream, including retailer take-back programs for electronics;
- Financial & other incentives to provide community residential recycling; &
- Returning local control of waste reduction so that municipalities can address the issues with ordinances that may be more restrictive than state laws when necessary.
- The use of brackish water and recycled water for fracking.
Weather Safety and Response Texas Democrats support:
- Increased funding to close gaps in radar coverage in rural parts of Texas,
- Funding updated technologies to be used in existing radar systems, allowing for shorter downtimes and greater resolution;
- Oppose privatization of and support increased funding for the National Weather Service;
- Funding for Meteorology programs at Texas Universities, & State agencies and universities sharing weather data with the National Weather Service;
- Regular cooperation between state agencies, local governments, and regional authorities to strengthen extreme weather preparedness and disaster response across Texas; and
- Development of a comprehensive statewide extreme weather resilience and disaster preparedness strategy addressing extreme heat, drought, flood mitigation, wildfire response, and electrical grid resilience.
21 Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Texas Democrats support:
- Modifying state law to not exclude renewable energy companies from participation in any state-wide tax abatement programs, &
- Statewide net metering policy that adds resiliency to the grid with additional distributed energy generation & better reimbursement to ratepayers for produced energy.
Electric Grid Resilience Texas Democrats support:
- Fair competition and lower monopolistic prices in the Texas energy markets while strengthening oversight of the electricity system to protect consumers and ensure reliable services;
- Exploring public or community ownership of critical electricity infrastructure;
- Ensuring that the Public Utility Commission truly represents the public, not just utilities;
- Promoting legislation that facilitates growth of renewable energy options;
- Requiring state agencies create and enforce specific weatherization standards for all power plants including stringent standards for black start units so they are always ready, and penalties must be imposed when they fail;
- Upgrading weatherization requirements for transmission, natural gas supply chains and power plants, & impose penalties for failing to complete weatherization by required dates;
- Opposing planned bailouts for utility companies and ERCOT financed through consumer surcharges & use windfall penalties on price gougers to retire the bonds;
- Allowing distributed energy resources like solar and storage to fully compete in ERCOT’s energy markets to create a modern grid; &
- Offering a statewide payment assistance program to Texas residents to help cover the costs of high utility bills from price surges during extreme weather conditions, and to invest in energy efficient measures.
Homeowners Insurance Texas Democrats support:
- Increasing insurance eligibility for high claims areas by increasing capacity and funding for state-provided insurance carriers such as TWIA and Texas FAIR Plan.
Expansion of eligibility to more affected areas; and
Restore fair prices through fair market competition;
Address the current agricultural credit crisis;
Regenerate Texas soil;
Soil & Land Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- Promote good stewardship of private and public land through the mitigation and control of harmful impacts;
- Invest in research for new, sustainable, & affordable methods to promote soil health, livestock health, and highly productive agriculture while at the same time lowering carbon emissions;
- Create a program where farmers with heavily contaminated soils use hemp to remove soil contaminants;
- Reform eminent domain statutes by ensuring a more transparent, accountable, and fair must serve the public good;
- Prohibit proposed “interstate” pipelines from sectioning such pipeline projects into “intrastate” segments to escape the needed and meaningful environmental review required to protect the state’s natural resources.
- Help farmers phase out the use of glyphosate and other harmful inputs;
- Address threats to soil quality caused by industry, development, mining, and agriculture through regulation of aggregate and frac-sand production, fossil fuel extraction; &
- Use Texas Department of Agriculture’s resources to conduct soil testing by request from those discovering PFAS in their soil from contaminant runoff.
23 Water Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- Protect farmers from losing water to private equity, data centers, or other corporations that abuse our natural resources by reforming groundwater laws;
- Support expanding state grant programs that help Texas municipalities repair aging water systems and replace failing sewer lines;
- Modernize water health standards;
- Protect groundwater recharge areas & increase state funding for aquifer recharge;
- Protect water supplies from contamination from industry discharge, construction seepage, and other ways that harmful chemicals, such as PFOAs or heavy metals;
- Appropriate funds to repair or replace dams that have been rated “high hazard”;
- Establishment of programs for industry, agriculture, and individuals to encourage conservation of non-essential water use in times of extended drought;
- Construction of desalination plants using renewable energy, employing state-of-the-art saltwater concentrate disposal, such as reverse osmosis, and operated by well-trained staff; &
- Promotion of rainwater collection, greywater systems, and heavy stormwater runoff capture.
Texas Democrats support aggressively combating the New World Screwworm
Restore prevention and monitoring programs that were defunded by DOGE;
Retain service members’ TRICARE Prime medical coverage until substituted; &
Veterans Unemployment and Homelessness Texas Democrats support:
- Liaison services for unemployed Veterans offering benefits, healthcare, and training opportunities;
- Identify Veterans who are at risk of, or experiencing homelessness and connect them with VA programs for homeless Veterans;
- Prohibit discrimination against Low Income Veterans using US HUD Housing Choice Vouchers, and other housing subsidies, by landlords;
- Expanding voucher eligibility regarding non-Housing Authority housing;
- Providing rental assistance to veterans who are at risk of being homeless;
- Offering Veterans case management, employment services, and healthcare in coordination with the VA’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Programs;
- Incentivizing local job placement opportunities for veterans statewide and encouraging all rural banks to offer VA Home Loans.
28 Veterans Suicide Prevention Texas Democrats support:
- Requiring counties/regions to participate in data collection efforts regarding Veterans who complete suicide, in an effort to prevent the same; &
- Requiring all healthcare providers to screen Veterans for risk of suicide and homelessness at each contact, document that screening, and make appropriate referrals to VA or community resources.
Veterans and Community Texas Democrats support:
- Properly welcoming home our veterans and service members, with honor;
- Continue to support our Veterans by identifying their potential military toxic exposures, conduct resultant contact tracing, offer appropriate medical treatment, and grant “presumption of exposure” disability ratings;
- Encouraging Veterans to keep serving the community by using leadership skills to be civically and politically active as candidates, staff, or volunteers; and
- Veterans to keep serving the community by using leadership skills to be civically and politically active as candidates, staff, or volunteers.
Supporting Veterans Subcommunities Texas Democrats support:
- Recognize and address the needs of Veterans within historically marginalized communities through specialized training, targeted programs, and oversight;
- Advocating for Black, Hispanic, Irish, Jewish, Asian, Muslim, and other minority group veterans and their military families, recognizing their specific injuries and contributions; &
- Advocating for women veterans and their military families, recognizing their specific injuries and contributions.
Elections must be made secure and free of encumbrance.
Encourage full participation in voting, elections, and governance;
Promote transparency, accountability, and ethics at all levels of government;
Good Government The Texas Democrats believe:
- Good government requires compassionate policies and a public safety net
- Texans deserve an honest, ethical, state government that prioritizes public interests above the special interests of “pay-to-play”ers;
- Banning stock trading & participation in prediction markets by elected representatives is essential to ensure traditional notions of fair play & substantial justice;
- In repealing HB 2127 of the 88th Texas Legislative Session, commonly known as the “Death Star” law, that removes local control from Texas local governments and centralizes all power with the Legislature and Governor;
- Establishing a recall mechanism as a constitutional process, allowing voters to remove state or county elected officials prior to the expiration of their term; &
- Eliminating benefits, including pension benefits, for elected or appointed officials convicted of official oppression, bribery, or other ethical violations.
End Gov. Abbott’s ongoing state of emergency;
Restrict the length and breadth of future emergency declarations;
Protect civil-service employees from partisan abuses, including termination;
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · 5aa41392-2958-4609-a10f-4bbd79e2f348.filesusr.com/ugd/061e99_153b98fadd5d43039829c3ce89c47905.pdf
Ethics & Transparency in Government The Texas Democrats believe:
Corruption & mismanagement are poisons that undermine the purpose and premise of good government, destroying the people’s faith in it.
Personal accountability is paramount to protecting the rights, liberties, and freedoms of all Texans.
The corrupting influence of money on political and electoral systems, and the blind application of ideology that ignores objective, real-world facts and science, are primary contributors.
Responsibility The Texas Democrats believe:
- People are (or should be) responsible for their actions;
- Religion, personal morality differences, and individual conscience must never serve to excuse hatred, bigotry, or discrimination; &
- Although many have benefited greatly from our state, counties, and country, there is no affirmative responsibility to support and give back to our communities & public institutions. So we honor, extoll, and celebrate those that do.
Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- Guarantee or ensure that Texas officials do not exploit public funds for personal or political gain;
- Enact laws that provide substantial penalties for government officials found guilty or liable for crimes of moral turpitude; 31
- Strongly & uniformly apply and enforce laws that provide substantial penalties for government officials found guilty or liable for crimes of moral turpitude;
- Empower state employees and government agencies to do work, free from partisan influences;
- Ensure political considerations have no bearing on contracts that the State enters into on behalf of the Texas public, or the use of public funds;
- Eliminate personal-leave policy & bonus abuses by Texas officials & agencies;
- Require elected officials to recuse themselves from voting on legislation that would directly financially benefit themselves or their close family members; &
- Require elected officials to disclose any such benefits.
- Prohibit presidents, vice presidents, members of Congress, executive branch officials, the Supreme Court, and their immediate family members from trading individual stocks, futures holdings, or prediction market investments.
- Restrict the holdings of presidents, vice presidents, members of Congress, executive branch officials, the Supreme Court, and their immediate family members to diversified index funds or Treasury securities, eliminating conflicts of interest between personal wealth and public duty;
- Restrict participation by all public officials in prediction markets that may be, or give the appearance of, a conflict of interest.
- Establish and support an office of an independent prosecutor to investigate state-wide elected or appointed officials who are credibly accused of unlawful conduct, with authority to prosecute such unlawful conduct;
- Strengthen safeguards for whistleblowers in government agencies; &
- Strengthen criminal penalties for elected & public officials who accept bribes; Transparency Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- Strictly apply & enforce open records and open meetings laws;
- Empower citizens to identify and eliminate the misuse and/or abuse of government power, influence, and resources;
- Serve the efficient and effective purposes of good, smart government by modifying, reforming, and improving the structure of government where necessary;
- Disclosing the funding sources for all political advertisements in a readily accessible manner, for candidate campaigns, ballot measures, independent expenditures, and issue advocacy;
- Eliminating tax deductions for contributions to non-profits that make direct campaign expenditures or contributions in support of or against any political candidate or ballot measure; &
- Transition Texas to more transparent public financing of campaigns & elections.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · 5aa41392-2958-4609-a10f-4bbd79e2f348.filesusr.com/ugd/061e99_153b98fadd5d43039829c3ce89c47905.pdf
One Person, One Vote Texas Democrats Believe in the Bedrock Principle of:
- One Person, One Vote; o Every vote should count; o No votes should be diluted; and o Gerrymandering should be abolished.
The legal exercise of local sovereignty, and the Home Rule principle of governance enshrined in the Texas Constitution;
Ensuring municipal, county and state governments are in keeping with legal, ethical, and equitable decorum, due process, and standards;
Voting Rights & Fair Elections Texas Democrats support:
- Returning Power to the People;
- Enshrining Initiative & Referendum procedures in the Texas Constitution;
- Recognizing November’s Election Day as a state and federal holiday;
- Enacting eighteen(18) year term-limits for the United States Supreme Court;
- Banning gerrymandering based on race or party;
- Banning Partisan Redistricting in the Texas Constitution;
- Creating a non-partisan, citizen-led redistricting commission to ensure fairer elections and reduce political influence in the structural distribution of voters;
- Combining concurrent local, state, & federal general elections into a single Election Day;
- Expanding countywide vote centers;
- Expanding extended and early voting periods;
- Increasing accessibility to voting for eligible voters;
- Developing robust, continuous voter education and outreach programs;
- Increasing ballot access through automatic or same-day registration through the Texas Department of Public Safety, online registration, etc.;
- Standardizing and codifying caps on campaign donations in Texas elections;
- Following the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), commonly known as the “Motor Voter” law, a landmark piece of federal legislation designed to make it easier for eligible Americans to register to vote & maintain their registration;
- Term limits for all statewide elected offices.
- Making legal voter registration more accessible by repealing voter registrar deputization requirements to make registration;
- Sending vote-by-mail application to Texans beginning on their 65th birthday;
- Ensuring weekend voting, curbside voting, & universal vote by mail availability;
- Secure drop-boxes for vote by mail ballots;
- Providing funding, supplies, and a clear voter safety plan to county election officials to ensure voter safety on Election Day(s);
- Clarifying and standardizing legal voter protection and voter assistance policies and procedures, tempering concerns of prosecution from volunteers and officials, which 33 had decreased the number of willing election day volunteers necessary to ensure smoother election days;
- Reinstating mobile-voting, better ensuring rural voters, students, and seniors have increased access to the ballot and their right to vote;
- Removing undue burdens on students by placing polling locations at all colleges and universities/institutions of postsecondary education;
- Allowing all eligible persons to vote by Election Day to participate in the preceding Primary Elections;
- Ensuring formerly incarcerated eligible voters who have fully discharged their sentence are informed of the restoration of their voting rights and able to register to vote without unnecessary administrative barriers;
- Providing voters with disabilities equal access to the ballot via accessible polling places, curbside voting, accessible vote by mail, and other accommodations,
- Ensuring poll-workers are trained in the law, procedures, and equipment use;
- Repealing the highly restrictive and discriminatory Texas Photo Voter ID law; &
- Enforcing the Texas Voting Rights Act & the federal Voting Rights Act;
- Supporting the use of electronic voting systems that utilize paper back-ups and an auditable paper trail;
- Promoting the implementation of ranked-choice voting in order to further promote strong democratic ideals & provide more choice to Texans across the state;
- Ending the discriminatory practice of prison gerrymandering;
- Eliminating the state ban on labor union participation in local recall elections;
- Abolishing the Electoral College;
- Joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact;
- Abolishing the Filibuster in the United States Senate;
- Ensuring Texas voters continue to have the right to vote for the members of the judiciary at every level; &
- Rebalancing the United States’ Supreme Court, offsetting the naked machinations of Senate Republicans, and others, that resulted in an unnatural ideological imbalance within the Court that is representative of neither the collective American people, or the United States’ Constitution; Judicial Progression Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- Implement single, non-renewable eighteen(18)-year term limits, for all federal judges, including for the United States Supreme Court, ending lifetime tenure;
- Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court, implement staggered appointments, such that a new vacancy opens every two (2) years, mathematically ensuring that any four (4)-year presidential term yields exactly two (2) appointments.;
- Establish a mandatory judicial ethics code, and anti-corruption statutes, for all federal judges, including the United States Supreme Court; and
- Regarding the Supreme Court’s emergency or interim docket, also known as the “Shadow Docket” or “Rocket Docket,” ensure the Supreme Court only steps in where there is proof of irreparable harm, rather than bypassing the normal appeals process, by mandating written opinions be issued and codifying emergency standards that define strict, uniform legal standards for what constitutes a true emergency, & requiring more than a simple majority of justices to agree to an emergency injunction or stay when the case is not on the Merits Docket.
34 Campaign Finance Reform Texas Democrats support:
- Recognizing that companies are not people, and are not entitled to the same rights and privileges as living citizens, whose interests should be paramount, i.e., no corporate personhood;
- Banning unlimited corporate spending in elections;
- More specifically, overturning the decisions in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission and Buckley v. Valeo that made money the most privileged form of speech;
- Then, advocating for prohibiting corporate PAC contributions and other forms of direct corporate funding in all federal elections;
- Prohibit political contributions from non-U.S. citizens, States, and entities;
- Prohibiting corporate PAC contributions and other forms of direct corporate funding in all Texas state and local elections, and in all federal elections;
- Prohibiting corporations, LLCs, partnerships, nonprofit associations, and other entities from directly spending unlimited amounts of money or contributing anything of value as an in-kind donation, for the purpose of influencing candidates, elections, or ballot measures;
- Transitioning to more transparent public financing of campaigns & elections;
- Standardizing and codifying caps on campaign donations in Texas elections;
- Disclosing the funding sources for all political advertisements in a readily accessible manner, for candidate campaigns, ballot measures, independent expenditures, and issue advocacy;
- Prohibit political contributions from non-U.S. citizens, States, and entities;
- Requiring all Texas candidates and elected officials to file an annual Personal Financial Statement, disclosing donors, and donors’ employment data;
- In the final month before each election, require all state and federal candidates to electronically report campaign contributions, receipts, and expenditures statements weekly of all contributions and expenditures in excess of $100;
- Require all federal and statewide candidates to disclose their complete federal tax return and, upon election, place any significant private holdings in a blind trust; &
- Reinstating the federal Public Service and Equal Time requirements.
Individual Security Texas Democrats believe that:
- All people have a right to live in safe, secure, and healthy environments;
- No one in Texas should have live without a home, electricity, or running water;
- Texas must have a secure power grid that functions in all weather;
- Texans should be able to retire with dignity and financial security.
Long-term Services and Support Texas Democrats support actions that:
- Revise the long-term care system to include Assisted Living, personal care homes, and in-home care options, as well as include increased Medicaid reimbursement rates for long-term care and in-home care providers;
- Prioritize home based aid and attendance and other community services over state and federally funded living centers;
- Ensure coordination of accessible, affordable, and integrated housing and allow greater individual control for people with disabilities and aging adults; 36
- Fully fund both community and state-supported centers and swiftly eliminate the waitlists; and
- Develop personal care provider virtual training programs and establish a state registry of those who have completed training and passed background checks.
Technology Texas Democrats support policies and programs that:
- End warrantless digital surveillance of Americans as authorized by the Patriot Act and the USA Freedom Act;
- Enshrine “Net Neutrality” as the law of the land, and require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to interpret internet service providers as subject to Title II Communications Service Common Carrier regulations;
- Establish a universal “Right to Repair,” so that people are always able to repair or modify electronic devices that they own, without violating intellectual property laws;
- Regulate the use of facial recognition systems and mass surveillance technologies, including automated license plate recognition systems, in public or private spaces;
- Restore the ability of municipalities to regulate autonomous vehicle operations within their jurisdiction;
- End government requirements for “encryption backdoors,” as they create unnecessary security risks for widely adopted software and online services;
- Encourage our government, whenever possible, to make use of open-source software, and provide any internally developed software, under an open-source license, for use by the public;
- Promote the responsible regulation of emergent technologies to ensure they serve the needs of the people, not just benefiting technology proprietors;
- Protect our right to consent regarding the collection and sale of our personal data by websites, software applications, and network service providers;
- Provide high-speed internet & cell phone service, along with Wi-Fi capabilities;
- Eliminate or reduce disparities in services for low-income & rural communities;
- Require all state agencies and public universities to develop and implement telecommuting infrastructure and employment policies;
- Improve telecommuting infrastructure and employment policies to allow for a more flexible work/life balance, ease the stress on roads, and to ensure the continuity of business and education during national disasters; 37
- Require that all publicly available broadcasts of open governmental meetings, including Texas Legislative hearings, be captioned; &
- Establish and issue a digital, mobile driver license and state identification alternative or supplement to physical identification cards.
Artificial Intelligence Texas Democrats support:
- Realizing the responsible benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) and managing its risks to ensure it serves the public interest;
- Creation of guidelines, tools, benchmarks, and best practices for evaluating dangerous AI capabilities and mitigating AI risk;
- Responsible development, testing, procurement, and integration of transformative AI across public and private sector deployment;
- Mandating bias audits and public transparency requirements for any AI system used in high-stakes government or private sector decisions;
- Ensuring that workers get a voice in how AI is used in their workplace;
- Disallowing the use of AI and other emerging technologies to surveil workers seeking to organize their workplace;
- Protecting individuals, artists, and public figures from the unauthorized use of their likeness, voice, data, or copyright and intellectual property through AI technologies, including deepfakes and voice cloning;
- Banning AI-generated child sexual abuse material with criminal penalties for creation and distribution, and legal liability shields for effective red teaming;
- Require age verification and parental consent for AI tools that present serious risks to minors;
- Places obligations on developers and deployers to avoid algorithmic discrimination against users;
- Require clear disclosure when interacting with AI instead of a human;
- Require large companies to report AI-related workforce changes; &
- Ensure AI cannot be the sole decision-maker in hiring, firing, or promotion decisions.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · 5aa41392-2958-4609-a10f-4bbd79e2f348.filesusr.com/ugd/061e99_153b98fadd5d43039829c3ce89c47905.pdf
The best way to uphold, preserve, and honor Texas’ strong heritage of responsible firearm ownership for self-defense, sport, and recreation is to enact common-sense firearm safety reforms that protect, train, & educate.
Texas Democrats call on state leaders to preserve Second Amendment rights, while implementing prudent safeguards against needless suicides, senseless mass murders, tragic accidents, and interpersonal violence.
Preventing discrimination via restrictions on the possession of firearms based solely on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, creed, or socio-economic status;
Restricting the open carry of firearms on school campuses;
Restricting the manufacture and sale of Teflon & armor-piercing ammunition;
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · 5aa41392-2958-4609-a10f-4bbd79e2f348.filesusr.com/ugd/061e99_153b98fadd5d43039829c3ce89c47905.pdf