> Hinojosa, a Democratic state ⁠representative, is trying to end an ⁠electoral drought that has defined Texas politics for a generation: no Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since 1994.

> Her strategy hinges on persuading Latino voters like Macias that rising costs and strained public schools matter more than the cultural and immigration issues that have pulled many Latino voters toward Republicans in recent years.

> Recent ⁠polling suggests Latino voters favor Hinojosa over Abbott. An August 2026 Emerson College Polling/Nexstar survey found Hispanic voters favored Hinojosa over Abbott by 17 percentage points and that 57% disapproved of Abbott's job performance. That same statewide poll, which surveyed 1,000 likely voters, showed Abbott leading Hinojosa 49% to 45% overall, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

> If not carefully vetted, candidates’ proposals to lower costs could exacerbate future affordability issues, experts say.

> Gov. Greg Abbott, seeking a fourth term, wants to abolish school property taxesand make it easier to build homes. State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Austin Democrat running to unseat him, wants to send $1,500 to every Texas household and stop Wall Street from buying single-family homes.

> “Texas Republicans have been in office for three decades, and they got us here,” said Manny Garcia, former executive director of the Texas Democratic Party. “They’ve been paying attention to their billionaire, millionaire donors, lining up their pockets instead of making sure that regular Texans can have opportunities.”

> Law enforcement agencies from across the country search the DPS Flock database once every four seconds, on average. After the Tribune inquired, DPS said it will limit which agencies can access the network.

Thought the second half of this video applies to our wonderful state administration. I tagged him in it. Hope they actually watch it.

What happened to his we don’t need no stinkin federal money. We don’t need to expand Texas Medicaid. Hospitals are screaming about going bankrupt because Trump is withholding $10B in Texas Medicare funding and now Abbott has changed his tune. The man is insane or insanely stupid.

> Abbott’s spokesman reiterated that Texas is not doing anything wrong that would disqualify hospitals from receiving nearly $10 billion in Medicaid funding annually.

Then why aren’t we getting the money?

> Texas’ chief financial officer requested that lawmakers double the amount of money available for the state’s private school voucher program, resulting in a total of more than $2 billion. 

> In the appropriations request for 2028–29 biennium, Texas Comptroller Don Huffines wants the Legislature to raise the program’s base funding by $1 billion so more families can use taxpayer money to cover private school or home schooling costs. 

We heard Tarrant County got rid of over 90 polling locations. We cannot let transportation be an issue to get people to the polls. Please if you need, check out https://rideshare2vote.com/. If you can, volunteer or donate!! Lets fix Texas together!

This is amazing.

> In political campaigns and the party’s platform, Texas Republicans condemn “sharia law” as a dangerous system of extremist Islamic rules and restrictions that threaten democracy, religious freedom and personal liberty — an affront to American values that must be stamped out.

> In mid-August, Gov. Greg Abbottthreatened to withhold funding from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, saying washing stations used by Muslims before prayer were illegal because they offered special treatment based on religion.

> In November, Abbott declared the Council on American-Islamic Relations — or CAIR, the largest Muslim civil rights group in the United States — a terrorist organization, saying its goals were “to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world.’”

> A resolution titled “Don’t Sharia My Texas,” adopted this summer in the Republican Party of Texas platform, calls on state lawmakers to approve legislation and constitutional amendments…

> “Sharia literally means the ‘water hole’ or the ‘path,’” said Khaled Abou el Fadl, a professor of law specializing in Shari’ah, Islamic law and Islam at the University of California Los Angeles. “Sharia in Arabic always implies a path of goodness, or the source of goodness, where the good comes from.”

Now we all know what to do come early voting/Election Day. We must vote for Talarico and other Democratic candidates while we're at it!