Every week I hear from HD 63 families who are working hard and still falling behind on groceries, insurance, property taxes, and childcare. That shouldn't happen to people doing everything right.

• The Texas Democratic Party's 2026 platform puts affordability first, with proposals to lower costs through infrastructure investment, housing access, and tax relief for working families.

• The Texas Republican platform doesn't address affordability or inflation directly. Its main cost related proposals are tax cuts that would help some Texans while cutting the public services many families rely on.

• Extremist politicians have had 30 years to act on affordability and have instead focused on culture war fights that don't put money back in anyone's pocket.

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I will fight for affordable healthcare, childcare, housing, and human services. As your State Representative, I will:

• Push for property tax relief targeted at homeowners and renters, not just a talking point

• Support expanding affordable childcare so parents can work without losing a paycheck to daycare

• Bring the same fiscal discipline I've used running a household and a private practice to how the state spends taxpayer money

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Making Texas Affordable for Working Families

Texas families are being squeezed from every direction — rising property taxes, high housing costs, expensive childcare, and healthcare bills that never seem to stop. As your state representative, I will fight for affordability measures that actually help middle-class homeowners, renters, and working parents — not policies that mostly benefit corporations and the wealthy.

 

Property Tax Relief Targeted at You

I support reducing the property-tax burden on middle-class Texans, but the way we deliver that relief matters. Across-the-board tax cuts often give the biggest benefit to the most expensive properties. My approach targets relief toward homeowners and renters who are actually feeling the squeeze — the family in Flower Mound whose tax bill keeps climbing even as their income stays flat.

 

More Housing, Lower Costs

Texas doesn't have enough homes for the people who want to live here, and that drives up prices for everyone. I support increasing the supply of housing by streamlining zoning rules, reducing permitting delays, allowing more accessory dwelling units (small secondary homes on existing lots), and investing in affordable housing. I specifically want to reduce barriers to building starter homes — the kind first-time buyers and young families can actually afford.

 

Childcare That Doesn't Eat Your Paycheck

For many Texas parents, the cost of childcare is so high that one parent's entire salary barely covers it. That's not a personal failure — it's a policy failure. I will support expanding access to affordable childcare so that going back to work after having a child is actually a financial gain, not a wash.

 

Healthcare Costs Are an Affordability Issue

More than 4.3 million Texans lack health insurance. When people can't afford routine care, they end up in emergency rooms — and those costs get spread across everyone's premiums and hospital bills. Expanding Medicaid in Texas would extend coverage to hundreds of thousands of working Texans at minimal state cost, because the federal government covers most of the expense. Affordable healthcare isn't just a health issue — it's a household budget issue.

 

Fiscal Discipline That Works for Ordinary Texans

I've run a private practice for 35 years. I know what it means to balance a budget, make payroll, and spend carefully. I will bring that same discipline to state government — and I will make sure that when Texas spends money, it's working for ordinary families, not just the interests with the most lobbyists in Austin.

— Dr. Denise Wooten