Grid Failures, Underfunded Schools, Rising Taxes - Stop Attacking LGBTQ Texans

The Texas Association of Business found that anti-LGBTQ laws could cost our state $8.5 billion annually and eliminate 185,000 jobs. After Texas passed abortion restrictions, Salesforce offered to relocate all 2,000 Texas-based employees and their families, and San Antonio lost $21 million when five major conventions canceled over discriminatory policies. A 2024 survey showed that 77% of both LGBTQ+ and non-LGBTQ+ workers are reluctant to apply to jobs in states with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Texans are paying taxes and contributing to this state regardless of who they love. Texas ranks 38th among states in per-student funding, and schools missed out on a proposed $7.6 billion funding boost last session that you held hostage over vouchers. These are the priorities that matter to working families. In February 2021, over 4.5 million homes lost power, with some outages lasting days, and at least 240 people died. Four years later, doubts remain over grid reliability as demand grows. After the 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard caused similar failures, federal regulators recommended winterization, but those recommendations were ignored due to cost. Texans died because infrastructure wasn’t prioritized. We need flood detection systems, grid improvements, and schools that can compete nationally. Instead, your administration has spent years targeting transgender kids and their families while the lights go out and property taxes climb. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced undercover investigations into what he called “leftist terror cells,” stating that “corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture.” A Center for Strategic and International Studies study showed that despite five left-wing attacks in early 2025 versus one right-wing attack, left-wing attacks remain overwhelmingly non-lethal and far less lethal than other ideological orientations. This is the rhetoric of division, not governance. Texans deserve an attorney general focused on actual threats and a governor who leads on infrastructure, education, and economic growth instead of scapegoating vulnerable communities for political gain.