Jeff Chavez earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Jeff is a first-time candidate for political office.

2026 Texas General Election

Progressive Property Tax Priorities. Reduce Property Taxes. Targeted Senior/Disabled Relief: Expand property tax relief and freeze programs for homeowners aged 65. Protect East Texas Water: Enact the strictest state limits on groundwater extraction.

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I believe dignity is a birthright, and that means using our tax dollars to empower families, not abandon them. We must reject the narrative that investing in childcare, paid maternity leave, housing, and workers' rights is "wasteful"—these are essential foundations for a strong society. I will fight to ensure our shared resources are used to uplift every Texan, regardless of race, identity, or income, because investing in our people is the most responsible choice we can make.

Ensure and fight for women's rights. A woman should have the final say on her own body. That is between her doctor and her maker. Invest in Local Infrastructure: Secure state funding for repairing and maintaining local roads, bridges, and county infrastructure critical for agriculture and commerce. Protect Voting Rights: Fight against all forms of voter suppression, ensuring easy access to early voting and ballot boxes for all eligible voters.

Protect Voting Rights: Fight against all forms of voter suppression, ensuring easy access to early voting and ballot boxes for all eligible voters. Fair Housing Protections: Support strengthening state-level fair housing laws to prohibit discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status in rental and real estate transactions.

Other Priorities: Smart Economics: Legalizing and taxing gaming and cannabis to fund education and reduce property taxes. Justice Reform: Ending low-level marijuana arrests to let police focus on violent crime.

Plans to expand property-tax relief and tax-freeze programs for homeowners age 65.

Supports public investment in childcare, paid maternity leave, housing, and workers' rights.

Plans to secure state funding for local roads, bridges, and county infrastructure.

Supports strengthening state fair-housing laws to prohibit specified discrimination in rental and real-estate transactions.

Supports legalizing and taxing gaming and cannabis to fund education and reduce property taxes.

- Plans to expand property-tax relief and tax-freeze programs for homeowners age 65.
- Supports public investment in childcare, paid maternity leave, housing, and workers' rights.
- Plans to secure state funding for local roads, bridges, and county infrastructure.
- Supports strengthening state fair-housing laws to prohibit specified discrimination in rental and real-estate transactions.
- Supports legalizing and taxing gaming and cannabis to fund education and reduce property taxes.

Economy

Smart Economics: Legalizing and taxing gaming and cannabis to fund education and reduce property taxes. Justice Reform: Ending low-level marijuana arrests to let police focus on violent crime. Humane Texas: Strengthening animal cruelty laws and promoting responsible ownership through accessible spay/neuter initiatives.

Justice Reform: Ending low-level marijuana arrests to let police focus on violent crime. Humane Texas: Strengthening animal cruelty laws and promoting responsible ownership through accessible spay/neuter initiatives.

Supports ending arrests for low-level marijuana offenses to focus police on violent crime.

Supports stronger animal-cruelty laws and accessible spay and neuter initiatives.

- Supports ending arrests for low-level marijuana offenses to focus police on violent crime.
- Supports stronger animal-cruelty laws and accessible spay and neuter initiatives.

Public Safety

Fund rural healthcare and hospitals. Ensure and fight for women's rights. A woman should have the final say on her own body. That is between her doctor and her maker. Invest in Local Infrastructure: Secure state funding for repairing and maintaining local roads, bridges, and county infrastructure critical for agriculture and commerce.

Expand Medicaid & Affordable Healthcare as a right to US Citizens: No more work tied to insurance. Fund rural healthcare and hospitals. Ensure and fight for women's rights.

Expand Medicaid & Affordable Healthcare as a right to US Citizens: No more work tied to insurance. Fund rural healthcare and hospitals. Ensure and fight for women's rights. A woman should have the final say on her own body.

Said a woman should have the final say over her own body, with her doctor and maker.

Supports expanding Medicaid, treating affordable health care as a right for U.S. citizens, and ending employment-tied insurance.

Supports funding rural health care and hospitals.

- Believes in abortion access.
- Supports expanding Medicaid, treating affordable health care as a right for U.S. citizens, and ending employment-tied insurance.
- Supports funding rural health care and hospitals.

Healthcare

MY PLATFORM AND GOALS — EDUCATION: Stop Vouchers & Fund Public Schools: Reject all school voucher or "Education Savings Account" schemes that divert taxpayer money from public schools. Increase Teacher Pay and Retention: Push for significant state funding increases specifically for teachers and support staff.

Stop Vouchers & Fund Public Schools: Reject all school voucher or "Education Savings Account" schemes that divert taxpayer money from public schools. Increase Teacher Pay and Retention: Push for significant state funding increases specifically for teachers and support staff. Expand Career & Technical Education (CTE): Mandate and fully fund the expansion of CTE programs.

Increase Teacher Pay and Retention: Push for significant state funding increases specifically for teachers and support staff. Expand Career & Technical Education (CTE): Mandate and fully fund the expansion of CTE programs. Universal Free School Meals: Champion state funding to ensure free breakfast and lunch for all students, regardless of income.

Expand Career & Technical Education (CTE): Mandate and fully fund the expansion of CTE programs. Universal Free School Meals: Champion state funding to ensure free breakfast and lunch for all students, regardless of income. Support Early Childhood Education: Increase funding for Pre-K and Head Start programs.

Universal Free School Meals: Champion state funding to ensure free breakfast and lunch for all students, regardless of income. Support Early Childhood Education: Increase funding for Pre-K and Head Start programs. Church and State Separate: Per the Original Ideals of the First Amendment.

Opposes school vouchers and education savings accounts that divert taxpayer money from public schools.

Plans to increase state funding for teachers and support staff to improve pay and retention.

Proposes mandating and fully funding expanded career and technical education programs.

Advocates for state-funded free breakfast and lunch for all students regardless of income.

Supports increased funding for pre-kindergarten and Head Start programs.

- Opposes school vouchers and education savings accounts that divert taxpayer money from public schools.
- Plans to increase state funding for teachers and support staff to improve pay and retention.
- Proposes mandating and fully funding expanded career and technical education programs.
- Advocates for state-funded free breakfast and lunch for all students regardless of income.
- Supports increased funding for pre-kindergarten and Head Start programs.

Education

Here is my plan to protect our water and my view on AI Data Centers: Stop all AI Data Center progress. No amount of money is worth our Texas, God given natural resourses.

Water: Stop the Drain: I will fight the permits that let these big companies take our water for their profit. Listen to Local Experts: I will bring together and listen to our local landowners, farmers, and independent water scientists who see their water levels every day to get the real facts.

End the Loophole: The rich use an outdated law called the Rule of Capture to justify draining our wells. I will push for legislation to end this unfair rule and replace it with a law that protects local homeowners' wells first, making sure our water stays where it belongs: in East Texas.

Targeted Senior/Disabled Relief: Expand property tax relief and freeze programs for homeowners aged 65. Protect East Texas Water: Enact the strictest state limits on groundwater extraction. Remove the dated "Rule of Capture Law."

Plans to halt artificial intelligence data center development to protect Texas natural resources.

Plans to oppose permits that allow companies to withdraw water for profit.

Proposes replacing the Rule of Capture with protections prioritizing local homeowners' wells.

Supports the strictest state limits on groundwater extraction.

- Plans to halt artificial intelligence data center development to protect Texas natural resources.
- Plans to oppose permits that allow companies to withdraw water for profit.
- Proposes replacing the Rule of Capture with protections prioritizing local homeowners' wells.
- Supports the strictest state limits on groundwater extraction.

Energy & the Environment

Invest in Local Infrastructure: Secure state funding for repairing and maintaining local roads, bridges, and county infrastructure critical for agriculture and commerce. Protect Voting Rights: Fight against all forms of voter suppression, ensuring easy access to early voting and ballot boxes for all eligible voters. Fair Housing Protections: Support strengthening state-level fair housing laws.

Plans to oppose voter suppression and expand access to early voting and ballot boxes for eligible voters.

- Plans to oppose voter suppression and expand access to early voting and ballot boxes for eligible voters.

Voting & Elections

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Jeff Chavez

- Supports expanding Medicaid, treating affordable health care as a right for U.S. citizens, and ending employment-tied insurance.
- Supports funding rural health care and hospitals.

Jeff previously worked as a news reporter for an East Texas news outlet and as a public school teacher in East Texas for three years.

Supports legalizing and taxing cannabis and gambling to fund education and reduce property taxes.

Supports expanding property tax relief and freeze programs for homeowners aged 65 and older.

Wants to reduce property taxes by legalizing and taxing cannabis and gambling.

Supports strengthening state-level fair housing laws to prohibit discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status in rental and real estate transactions.

Believes in ending low-level marijuana arrests to allow police to focus on violent crime.

Supports strengthening animal cruelty laws and promoting responsible pet ownership through accessible spay/neuter initiatives.

Supports expanding Medicaid and making affordable healthcare a right for US citizens, with no work tied to insurance, and plans to fund rural healthcare and hospitals.

Opposes school vouchers, which are programs that allow families to use public funds to enroll their children in schools beyond their local options, including private schools.

Wants to increase funding for Pre-K and Head Start programs.

Supports expanding career and technical education programs.

Supports increasing pay for teachers and school staff.

Opposes the construction of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers in Texas.

Supports enacting "the strictest state limits on groundwater extraction."

Opposes "all forms of voter suppression" and supports accessible early voting and ballot boxes for all eligible voters.

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