Pooja’s Priorities

Fully fund public education.

1

  • Fully fund neighborhood schools to stop closures and overcrowding

  • Fix the broken recapture system that drains money from our classrooms

  • Raise teacher pay and invest in counselors, nurses, and special education

  • Keep politics out of the classroom and let educators do their jobs

Family-first neighborhood safety.

2

  • Crack down on illegal street racing and reckless driving

  • Work with TXDot to improve school zones, crosswalks, and intersection safety

  • Support mental health crisis teams to respond before emergencies escalate

  • Pass commonsense gun safety laws: universal background checks, safe storage, and red flag laws

  • Keep guns out of schools and out of the hands of domestic abusers

Your right to timely healthcare.

3

  • Expand access to medical providers to reduce wait times

  • Protect reproductive rights, including IVF, abortion, and contraception

  • Expand Medicaid and improve maternal and postpartum care

  • Increase access to mental health and preventive services

Tackling the climate crisis.

4

  • Invest in grid infrastructure and reliability

  • Lower energy bills by increasing oversight and reducing blackouts

  • Fund wildfire prevention and mitigation efforts

  • Hold polluters accountable and support clean energy solutions

  • Confront water scarcity head-on by protecting and preserving Texas water supplies

  • Strengthen drought planning, conservation, and water infrastructure

Defend our democracy & local control.

5

  • Expand early voting and protect vote-by-mail

  • End gerrymandering and restore fair representation

  • Block state takeovers of local elections and school boards