Texas Has More Moms Running for Office Than Ever Before

For the first time since Ann Richards, a Mom is running at the top of the ticket.

For the first time since the legendary Ann Richards, a mom is running at the top of the ticket. Her name is Gina Hinojosa. But if you think she is an outlier, you are missing the bigger picture.

Right now, nearly half of all Democrats running at the federal and state level in Texas are women. We are talking about 133 women on the ballot, and roughly 85 percent of them are mothers or grandmothers.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Across statewide races, we are seeing multiple moms competing for the highest offices in the land. Nearly every State Board of Education and statewide judicial seat is filled by a woman. This is not a temporary trend or a political fluke. It is a fundamental shift in the tectonic plates of Texas power.

Where They Come From

These women are not career politicians groomed in backrooms. They are coming from the places where real life actually happens:

• Classrooms and tech companies

• Engineering firms and small towns

• Courtrooms and community organizing spaces

• The kitchen tables where the hardest financial decisions are made

• Literally Moms that decided they needed to step up.

They come from different backgrounds and took different paths to get here, but they share one singular motivation. They want change. Not the “talking point” kind of change, but the real kind that makes Texas work for regular people again.

Because right now, let’s be honest: it does not.

The Fixers

Women and moms are not just participating in this movement. They are the ones driving it. They are stepping in to do what women have always done when things start falling apart. They are here to fix it.

What happens when women show up at this scale? We are all about to find out.

Maybe it means policies that actually support families instead of punishing them. Maybe it means a healthcare system that does not fail women, the poor and our children. Maybe it means public schools that are funded, respected, and protected.

And maybe, just maybe, it means something even more radical: leadership with a little more heart.

The Predictable Outcome

Here is the truth everyone quietly knows. Women already run the world. We run households. We make the financial decisions. We manage the chaos. We solve three problems before most people have finished their first cup of coffee.

When women start running the government, the outcome is actually pretty predictable. Things get fixed.

Women are stepping up to repair what a long line of powerful men in Austin have spent years breaking while filling their pockets with our money.

I do not know about you, but I am more than ready to see women run this state.

Moms and women are not just a part of the blue wave.

They ARE the blue wave.

I love being on this big blue wave with all of you!

Nancy, the original Mother Against Greg Abbott