2022 is an election year, a chance for Texas voters to tell the people who represent them what the state needs and what it doesn’t need, to bear down on the biggest problems we face together and to ignore the distractions that keep us from that important work.
Texas has 5.5 million kids in public schools. They need the tools to continue the work, and the pandemic set them back. Teachers can tell you that, and parents, and so can the students themselves. It’s an urgent problem, and ought to be at the top of the list. The future is at stake.
For years, the state government has done too little to take care of Texans who need basic services or a safety net: foster children, those who need better health and mental care, rural residents who need hospitals and better infrastructure, people in blighted areas of cities and suburbs who need some of the same services, prisoners, adults who need training or help to get on their feet, and everyone left out of the game because of their race, their nationality, their religion, their gender, their ideology, their background or other differences that really shouldn’t matter when it comes to government and law.
