Meet Our Candidate: Orlando Lopez Orlando was born and raised in South Texas in a hardworking Mexican-American family. His parents instilled in him and his siblings the values of hard work, honesty, selflessness, and personal responsibility.

Meet Our Candidate: Orlando Lopez

A graduate of Hidalgo High School and Texas A&M University with a degree in Construction Science, Orlando has spent more than a decade in the construction industry.

Orlando lives in Heath, Texas with his wife, Carolina, a former public school teacher and counselor, and their daughter Clara. Their connection to public education, both personal and professional, informs his commitment to keeping schools strong, fully funded, and safe for all.

Orlando Lopez was born and raised in South Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in construction science. He lives in Heath, Texas, with his wife, Carolina, and their daughter.

A graduate of Hidalgo High School and Texas A&M University with a degree in Construction Science, Orlando has spent more than a decade in the construction industry. In 2020, he became the youngest project manager at his former company, leading teams and managing complex development projects across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

A graduate of Hidalgo High School and Texas A&M University with a degree in Construction Science, Orlando has spent more than a decade in the construction industry. In 2020, he became the youngest project manager at his former company, leading teams and managing complex development projects across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. His experience in leadership and infrastructure gives him a grounded understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing rapidly growing communities.

Orlando Lopez has spent more than a decade in the construction industry. He previously worked as a project manager.

2026 Texas General Election

These policies are hurting both our economy and our communities. Families are living in fear while hardworking people are detained and placed into overcrowded detention facilities across Texas. This does not reflect our values as Texans, nor does it improve public safety. I support abolishing ICE, pursuing humane immigration reform, and increasing accountability within DHS to ensure detained individuals have access to legal counsel, translators, phone calls, and communication with their families. Texas can uphold border security while still treating people with fairness, humanity, and dignity.

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Too many of our current leaders live disconnected from the realities facing working families. While everyday Texans struggle to afford basic necessities, reckless policies continue increasing our cost of living and shifting the burden onto the middle and working class. Closing loopholes and reducing unfair tax advantages for billionaires and large corporations can help ease that burden and create a fairer economy for everyone.

Q: Should Texas end tax subsidies and abatements for large corporations? Absolutely. It’s one thing to provide these subsidies and abatements for new, small businesses. It’s another thing to offer them to large corporations that already have established ways of making their profits, especially without clear returns for taxpayers.

Meet The Candidates: Orlando Lopez For Texas House District 33

By investing in affordable childcare and expanding access to healthcare, we can better support families who are forced to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for loved ones.

Supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration reform, and Department of Homeland Security safeguards for detained people.

Supports closing tax loopholes and reducing tax advantages for billionaires and large corporations.

Supports ending tax subsidies and abatements for large corporations while allowing them for new small businesses.

Supports investing in affordable child care and expanding healthcare access for families.

- Supports abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration reform, and Department of Homeland Security safeguards for detained people.
- Supports closing tax loopholes and reducing tax advantages for billionaires and large corporations.
- Supports ending tax subsidies and abatements for large corporations while allowing them for new small businesses.
- Supports investing in affordable child care and expanding healthcare access for families.

Economy

As Texans, we understand firearms are part of our culture and our history. As a gun owner myself, I strongly support the right to responsibly own firearms and protect one’s family. At the same time, keeping our communities safe requires responsibility, training, and common-sense safeguards.

At the same time, keeping our communities safe requires responsibility, training, and common-sense safeguards. Every parent, teacher, and first responder in our district deserves meaningful action, not just political theatrics. I support universal background checks, red flag laws with due process protections, safe firearm storage practices, and increased investment in mental health programs. My goal is not to take away anyone’s guns, it’s to reduce preventable violence and keep our children, schools, and communities safe.

Supports the right to responsibly own firearms for family protection.

Supports universal background checks, due-process protections in red-flag laws, safe firearm storage, and increased mental-health investment.

- Supports the right to responsibly own firearms for family protection.
- Supports universal background checks, due-process protections in red-flag laws, safe firearm storage, and increased mental-health investment.

Public Safety

Texas leads the nation in maternal mortality, and restrictive laws have forced doctors into impossible situations. Healthcare decisions should be made between a patient and their doctor, not dictated by political agendas. Women and physicians must be trusted to make these deeply personal medical decisions without government influence or interference.

True compassion means allowing women and their families to make these life-altering decisions with dignity, privacy, and proper medical guidance. Dignity is not negotiable.

We must restore and expand statewide research into maternal morbidity and mortality affecting women from all backgrounds. Physicians also deserve clear medical guidelines so they can provide care without fear of legal consequences. Waiting until a mother’s condition becomes life-threatening before doctors can intervene is unacceptable.

Supports medical decisions being made by patients and doctors without government interference.

Calls for expanded statewide research into maternal morbidity and mortality.

Supports clear medical guidelines allowing physicians to provide care without fear of legal consequences.

- Supports medical decisions being made by patients and doctors without government interference.
- Calls for expanded statewide research into maternal morbidity and mortality.
- Supports clear medical guidelines allowing physicians to provide care without fear of legal consequences.

Healthcare

Teachers deserve competitive salaries of $100,000 or more so we can recruit and retain the best educators possible. I also support auditing the Texas Land Commissioner and the Commissioner of Education’s distribution of funds from 2024 to the present to ensure taxpayer dollars are being allocated appropriately and transparently.

In the meantime, students already enrolled in private schools should not qualify for voucher funding, and income caps should be placed on eligibility. Texans were told vouchers would expand school choice, but school choice means very little if working families still cannot afford access to better opportunities.

Texans were told vouchers would expand school choice, but school choice means very little if working families still cannot afford access to better opportunities. If voucher funds remain at all, they should stay within the state of Texas and directly benefit Texas students.

Strong schools create strong communities. As the husband of a former public school teacher and father to a young daughter, I understand why our public schools must be fully funded and why our educators deserve livable salaries with strong benefits. Our schools are being asked to do more with less, while funding continues to fall behind the real needs of students and teachers.

We need to dismantle the voucher scam and redirect funding back into our public schools. Teachers deserve competitive salaries of $100,000 or more so we can recruit and retain the best educators possible.

We need to dismantle the voucher scam and redirect funding back into our public schools. Teachers deserve competitive salaries of $100,000 or more so we can recruit and retain the best educators possible. I also support auditing the Texas Land Commissioner and the Commissioner of Education’s distribution of funds from 2024 to the present to ensure taxpayer dollars are being allocated appropriately and transparently.

Q: Should Texas guarantee free school meals to all K–12 students, regardless of income? I grew up in the RGV and thought this was already the norm. I didn’t realize at the time that my school was Title I. Those meals made a real difference for my family. Yes, I absolutely believe all public schools should offer free meals to every student.

Supports auditing the distribution of funds by state land and education officials since 2024.

Supports excluding private-school students from voucher eligibility and applying income caps while voucher funding remains.

Supports fully funding public schools and providing educators livable salaries with strong benefits.

Calls for ending Texas's school-voucher program and redirecting its funding to public schools.

Supports teacher salaries of $100,000 or more to recruit and retain educators.

Supports free school meals for every K–12 public-school student regardless of income.

- Supports auditing the distribution of funds by state land and education officials since 2024.
- Supports excluding private-school students from voucher eligibility and applying income caps while voucher funding remains.
- Supports fully funding public schools and providing educators livable salaries with strong benefits.
- Calls for ending Texas's school-voucher program and redirecting its funding to public schools.
- Supports teacher salaries of $100,000 or more to recruit and retain educators.
- Supports free school meals for every K–12 public-school student regardless of income.

Education

I support requiring ALL new data centers to provide their own infrastructure, such as on-site solar generation, battery storage, or other technologies that reduce reliance on our electrical grid. These developers should be responsible for managing their own water needs, protecting local ecosystems, and covering the infrastructure costs created by their projects rather than passing those costs on to Texans.

I support requiring ALL new data centers to provide their own infrastructure, such as on-site solar generation, battery storage, or other technologies that reduce reliance on our electrical grid. These developers should be responsible for managing their own water needs, protecting local ecosystems, and covering the infrastructure costs created by their projects rather than passing those costs on to Texans. No more property tax abatements for billion-dollar corporations while Texas families are asked to pay more for essential utilities!

Q: Should Texas end tax breaks and regulatory loopholes for oil and gas companies, including exemptions from emissions reporting and waste disposal standards? Yes. We should be holding these companies accountable, especially when it comes to our environment and public health. They don’t need more tax breaks; they need competition through investments in renewable energy, while still supporting Texas workers through that transition.

Supports requiring new data centers to provide on-site infrastructure that reduces reliance on Texas's electrical grid.

Supports ending oil and gas tax breaks and regulatory loopholes, including emissions-reporting and waste-disposal exemptions.

Supports investments in renewable energy while supporting Texas workers during the energy transition.

- Supports requiring new data centers to provide on-site infrastructure that reduces reliance on Texas's electrical grid.
- Supports ending oil and gas tax breaks and regulatory loopholes, including emissions-reporting and waste-disposal exemptions.
- Supports investments in renewable energy while supporting Texas workers during the energy transition.

Energy & the Environment

Q: Do you support publicly financed elections to reduce corporate and PAC influence? Yes. As long as corporations and PACs can spend massive amounts influencing elections, candidates will continue to feel pressure to prioritize those interests over the needs of everyday people.

Supports publicly financed elections to reduce corporate and political action committee influence.

- Supports publicly financed elections to reduce corporate and political action committee influence.

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Orlando Lopez

- Supports closing tax loopholes and reducing tax advantages for billionaires and large corporations.
- Supports ending tax subsidies and abatements for large corporations while allowing them for new small businesses.
- Supports investing in affordable child care and expanding healthcare access for families.

- Supports fully funding public schools and providing educators livable salaries with strong benefits.
- Calls for ending Texas's school-voucher program and redirecting its funding to public schools.
- Supports teacher salaries of $100,000 or more to recruit and retain educators.
- Supports free school meals for every K–12 public-school student regardless of income.

Orlando is from South Texas. He attended Hidalgo High School. He has a bachelor’s degree in construction science from Texas A&M University. He lives with his wife, Carolina, a former public school teacher and counselor, and their daughter, Clara, in Heath, Texas.

Orlando Lopez announces campaign for Texas House District 33

Supports closing loopholes and reducing unfair tax advantages for billionaires and large corporations to create a fairer economy.

Supports empowering local communities to make economic decisions tailored to their needs.

Prioritizes public resources like water, land, and the electrical grid for Texas families, small businesses, farmers, and ranchers over corporate profits.

Wants to prevent unrestricted development that harms rural communities and emphasizes the need for local input and strong environmental safeguards.

Supports requiring new data centers to provide their own infrastructure and manage their own resources, opposing property tax abatements for large corporations while advocating for accountability in protecting local ecosystems and reducing costs for Texas families.

For Candidate Orlando Lopez on Issue public-safety:  
Believes firearms are part of Texas culture and history.

Supports responsibility, training, and common-sense safeguards to keep communities safe, emphasizing the need for meaningful action over political theatrics.

Supports universal background checks, red flag laws with due process protections, safe firearm storage practices, and increased investment in mental health programs.

For Candidate Orlando Lopez on Issue public-safety:  
Supports protecting communities while respecting responsible gun ownership.

Believes healthcare decisions should be made between patients and their doctors without government interference, particularly regarding women's healthcare.

Supports restoring and expanding statewide research into maternal morbidity and mortality, and advocates for clear medical guidelines for physicians.

Supports allowing women and their families to make healthcare decisions with dignity, privacy, and proper medical guidance.

Opposes using tax dollars for private schooling, advocating for funding to remain with public schools to ensure proper educator compensation and student funding.

Supports providing free meals to every student in public schools.

Opposes the 2025 school voucher program, arguing it exacerbates funding issues for public schools and negatively impacts students and teachers.

Opposes school voucher programs and advocates for redirecting funding to public schools and increasing teacher salaries to $100,000 or more to attract and retain quality educators.

Supports holding companies accountable for their impact on the environment and public health.

Believes that the influence of corporations and PACs in elections pressures candidates to prioritize special interests over the needs of everyday people.

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