Texas’s Biggest Papers Agree: Gina Hinojosa is the Best Candidate for Governor

Hinojosa sweeps endorsements from the Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, and more

Austin, TX — On the eve of the start of early voting for the March 3 Democratic primary in Texas, Gina Hinojosa has earned the endorsement of every major newspaper editorial board in Texas: the Austin American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, and more.

From Austin to Houston, Dallas to San Antonio, the message is the same: Gina Hinojosa is the leader Texas needs to take on Greg Abbott and fight to make life more affordable for working families.

“Texans are ready for change, and we’re seeing it every day on the campaign trail,” said Hinojosa. “This isn’t about left vs. right. It’s about who’s going to fight for Texans who are working more and getting less because we’re all paying the Greg Abbott Corruption Tax. Too many families have been left behind by twelve years of Abbott’s corruption. I’m incredibly honored to have the support of these boards, but I’m even more honored to have the people of Texas behind me going into the March 3rd primary and beyond.”

Here’s what they’re saying:

Austin American-Statesman: “At a moment when the state’s economic success is increasingly divorced from the well-being of many Texans, Hinojosa offers a compelling alternative… Her priorities include unwinding Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature private school voucher program and investing instead in public schools; expanding access to health care; and steering the state’s financial incentives toward the small businesses that drive job growth instead of major corporations that pile up profits… Notably, these issues aren’t left vs. right or urban vs. rural. They are priorities that would broadly benefit Texans… And in every sense of the word, Hinojosa is ready to bring it. She deserves Democrats’ support March 3.”

Dallas Morning News: “The crowded field in the Democratic primary for governor might confuse some voters when they go to the polls. It shouldn’t. There is only one serious choice, and that is state Rep. Gina Hinojosa. She not only gives Democrats their best chance to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott after a dozen years, but she also gives them a voice that can balance progressive impulses with a grounded message that could resonate beyond her base… Hinojosa is putting in the work to traverse the state. Unlike Abbott, she’s willing to talk to people who might disagree with her and challenge her perspective. She’s shown she’s capable of thinking through issues outside of the left/right binary we are all stuck in.”

Houston Chronicle: “We imagine plenty of Texans love to see a change… Abbott’s three terms as governor should be a signal to voters, regardless of party, that it’s time for spring cleaning. It’s time for sweeping out old habits, stale ideas, encrusted notions, depleted energy… Imagine a governor… resolutely focused on public education, not vouchers favored by wealthy backers; on kitchen-table economic issues – including health care and insurance costs – not tax breaks for the favored few. Imagine a governor adamantly eschewing social issues designed primarily to divide and embitter. In an Hinojosa administration, we would not see a multibillion-dollar boondoggle like Operation Lone Star along the border. We would not see efforts to pit blue cities against red rural areas.”

San Antonio Express-News: “The list of important issues that Hinojosa is on the right side of, in opposition to Abbott, also includes school vouchers and the persistent underfunding of public education, the need to expand Medicaid in Texas, and overly aggressive, performative and sloppy immigration enforcement tactics that have disrupted communities and swept up U.S. citizens… Recent polling shows Abbott’s lead is comfortable but getting smaller, and a 14-percentage point victory by Democrat Taylor Rehmet in the Jan. 31 special election for Texas Senate District 9, which Trump carried by 17 percentage points in 2024, suggests there are no guarantees. … [T]he Democratic Party needs its best candidate possible, and that is Hinojosa.”

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “If Democrats yearn for a candidate who will go hard at Gov. Greg Abbott — and most do — their best option is Gina Hinojosa. The state representative from Austin is running for governor as a fighter, stitching together a narrative of corruption and mismanagement under Republicans… She offered some intriguing policy ideas in our interview with the leading candidates. Hinojosa, 52, proposed a scrubbing of the state budget, with priority on rooting out no-bid contracts and “grift” to find more money for public education. Promises to find waste, fraud and abuse are usually oversold, but it’s interesting that she’s emphasizing an approach on which she could find common ground with many fiscally conservative Republicans.”

Austin Chronicle: “The Chronicle loves everything about Gina Hinojosa. We love her fearlessness. We love her empathy. We love her sharp tactical mind. We love that she’s a hometown girl who started her public service on the Austin school board. We love that she led the fight against school vouchers in the House. We love that she’s shining a bright light on that disastrous policy in her race for governor, and connecting it to Greg Abbott’s corruption. We are all-in, rock solid, 100% behind Gina Hinojosa.”

These endorsements are added to the growing list of more than 100 local, statewide, and federal groups and elected leaders that know Gina Hinojosa is the best choice for Governor.

Early voting in the Democratic primary runs February 17–27. Election Day is March 3.

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