Immigration
Supports border security plus a path for law-abiding immigrants
“I support immigration reform that protects our borders, streamlines legal immigration, and gives law-abiding immigrants a path to earn their place.”
Democratic
Texas
Key dates
Full two-year term
Democratic
Texas
Key dates
Full two-year term
Immigration
“I support immigration reform that protects our borders, streamlines legal immigration, and gives law-abiding immigrants a path to earn their place.”
Elections & Campaigns
“When I get to Congress, I’m going to push for a nationwide ban against partisan, out-of-cycle gerrymandering that cracks our communities, silences voices and confuses voters.”
Seniors & Aging
“Protecting Social Security. No Excuses: Social Security is a promise, not a political bargaining chip. I’ll fight any attempt to cut benefits and work to keep the program strong for our current and future retirees.”
Health Care
“The ACA subsidies shouldn’t be expired until we have a better plan. We need a public and private partnership that provides an affordable baseline, but also maintains some healthy competition and innovation.”
Immigration
“I support immigration reform that protects our borders, streamlines legal immigration, and gives law-abiding immigrants a path to earn their place.”
Elections & Campaigns
“When I get to Congress, I’m going to push for a nationwide ban against partisan, out-of-cycle gerrymandering that cracks our communities, silences voices and confuses voters.”
Seniors & Aging
“Protecting Social Security. No Excuses: Social Security is a promise, not a political bargaining chip. I’ll fight any attempt to cut benefits and work to keep the program strong for our current and future retirees.”
Health Care
“The ACA subsidies shouldn’t be expired until we have a better plan. We need a public and private partnership that provides an affordable baseline, but also maintains some healthy competition and innovation.”
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
Big Bend is 800,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert that Americans set aside more than eighty years ago, and the canyon walls along the river hold rock art made thousands of years before there was a border here to argue about. Construction is working toward it now under a legal power almost nobody knows exists: one line in the REAL ID Act lets the Secretary of Homeland Security waive any law at all (the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, historic preservation, the statutes protecting tribal sacred sites) to build a wall, with no court permitted to review the decision. That isn't border policy. That's a single official with a pen and nobody to answer to. Repeal that waiver authority and bar wall construction inside national parks, wildlife refuges, and tribal sacred sites.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
Big Bend is 800,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert that Americans set aside more than eighty years ago, and the canyon walls along the river hold rock art made thousands of years before there was a border here to argue about. Construction is working toward it now under a legal power almost nobody knows exists: one line in the REAL ID Act lets the Secretary of Homeland Security waive any law at all (the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, historic preservation, the statutes protecting tribal sacred sites) to build a wall, with no court permitted to review the decision. That isn't border policy. That's a single official with a pen and nobody to answer to. Repeal that waiver authority and bar wall construction inside national parks, wildlife refuges, and tribal sacred sites.