Beto will recruit and retain the best and brightest educators by raising teacher pay, strengthening health care and retirement benefits, and treating teachers with the respect they deserve.

Mike will fight for Texas to have the best schools in the nation by investing in smaller class sizes, more special education support, and great teachers — as well as ending high-stakes standardized testing and forever banning private school vouchers in Texas.

Janet will

• Advocate for the legalization of cannabis by pointing out the economic advantages of legalization and expunging the records of those currently in jail for nonviolent cannabis-related crimes. Janet will use this money to fund public schools.

• Preserve the Public School Teacher Retirement Fund that has not adjusted payouts for inflation in a decade, ultimately hurting the teachers who have already committed so much to our communities and our kids. Janet will reverse the recent state ban on businesses that diversified their energy portfolio by the current Comptroller to instead prioritize the Comptroller's fiduciary responsibility and protect pension funds.

Jay will reduce the burden on taxpayers and improve K-12 education with better investment of the Permanent School Fund, increasing public school funding.

Susan will incentivize districts to have healthy school lunches and promote a garden at every school so kids learn about ag and healthy food.

Beto will partner with hardworking rural communities to invest in education, health care, and broadband. Republicans have failed to uplift rural communities, making it harder and harder for businesses in those towns to recruit and retain talent and encourage economic investment.

Mike will prioritize expanding Medicaid to help keep rural hospitals open, create incentives for rural broadband so those communities can participate in the modern digital world, oppose efforts to defund public schools in favor of private school vouchers, and work to bolster state water planning to assist farmers and ranchers.

Janet will reinforce support for rural broadband by helping local governments keep broadband costs low and bring in money with broadband expansion.

Jay will fully fund, staff, and prepare all of our community partners so all Texans have what they need to prevent and respond to climate disasters — including coastlines, droughts, and wildfires.

Susan will

• Raise our livestock and our crops without harming our land, our water, and our air. Susan will reduce government red tape and incentivize sustainable practices to help pay for these supplies needed to implement these changes.

• Allow landowners to receive payment for “carbon capture” projects — safe and effective developments that take carbon out of the atmosphere, slowing down the impacts of climate change.

• Legalize cannabis and make the growing and selling licenses affordable so it’s not just billionaires and corporations profiting off of the demand for cannabis’ recreational and medicinal benefits.

• Accept federal dollars from the USDA to support rural broadband in Texas, which Texans’ taxpayers pay into but don’t get the rewards from due to incumbent Sid Miller’s poor relationship with USDA.

• Rural Texas cannot survive — literally or economically — without vast improvements to its healthcare system. Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed over the past number of years, and 55% of remaining rural hospitals are in danger of closing. Susan will take advantage of federal programs and incentives for healthcare, broadband, and infrastructure that will return taxpayer dollars to Texas.

Beto will legalize marijuana and expunge the records of those arrested for marijuana possession—and he’ll use the nearly $1 billion in new state revenue and reduced criminal justice costs to invest in public schools and reduce property taxes.

Mike will champion reforming our criminal justice system and legalize marijuana so that more Texans can work rather than spend years in prison for minor, non-violent offenses.

Rochelle will prioritize justice in our legal system. She will expunge the criminal records of anyone who was convicted on charges of personal possession of cannabis.

Janet will advocate for the legalization of cannabis by pointing out the economic advantages of legalization and expunging the records of those currently in jail for nonviolent cannabis-related crimes. She will use this money to fund public schools.

Susan will legalize cannabis and make the growing and selling licenses affordable so it’s not just billionaires and corporations profiting off of the demand for cannabis’ recreational and medicinal benefits.

Beto will

• Raise the minimum wage to ensure every Texan is paid the full value of their work, increase access to paid and sick leave, and make Texas a right-to-organize state.

• Expand Medicaid to bring billions of dollars into the Texas economy and create nearly 300,000 jobs in the healthcare industry and beyond.

• Add to our hundreds of thousands of oil and gas jobs by pursuing the Texas labor movement’s aggressive clean energy jobs plan, which aims to create 1.1 million high-paying jobs over the next 25 years by investing in geothermal power generation, hydrogen-fueled energy, offshore wind, solar generation, energy efficiency, and more.

• Build out the roads, bridges, water systems, and broadband that will encourage economic development in our communities, spurring construction investments and jobs.

• Create family-supporting infrastructure jobs — like child care and elder care- with good pay, good benefits, and good job training opportunities.

Mike will fight for a living wage, safe working conditions, retirement security, and healthcare for all Texans — and he’ll work to create thousands of good-paying jobs with benefits, creating an economy that serves everyone, not just out-of-state corporations.

Rochelle will protect the rights of workers to unionize, fight wage theft, and end health and safety violations that put workers in danger.

Susan will

• Get Texans access to the federal rural economic development funding that already exists, supporting small businesses, healthcare jobs, education and daycare-related jobs, and support for farmers and ranchers.

• Take advantage of federal programs and incentives for healthcare, broadband, and infrastructure that will return taxpayer dollars to Texas.

• Set fair prices for hemp and cannabis licenses. Republican incumbent Sid Miller has been indicted for marking up the cost of hemp licenses, benefiting his rich corporate donors by blocking out family farms from this very profitable and growing market.

Luke will expand our energy leadership to improve energy security and create jobs. Texas needs to respond to demand by making our oil and gas cleaner, safer, and more affordable while also expanding Texas energy leadership in wind, solar, geothermal, carbon capture, and hydrogen.