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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that’s what I’ve done.

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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.

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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

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June 13, 2024

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

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June 13, 2024

We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.

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