Texas Democratic Party Platform, 2026

These are the top goals of the Texas Democratic Party. You can read the entire platform at this link.

Democrats aim to lower the cost of living, by investing in infrastructure such as roads, bridges, utilities, internet services, water supply and flood control, schools, ports, parks, and public buildings.

All working Texans should be able to afford a decent, accommodating home within a reasonable commute from their job.

The State of Texas should return governing authority to local communities on issues where local authority best serves the community's health and safety.

Texas Democratic Party supports programs that:

● Lower inflation, and protect Texans from the impacts of inflation;

● Lower grocery costs by enforcing affordable pricing, fair market, and anti-trust laws;

● Lower housing costs by removing arbitrary barriers to housing supply growth, and fighting artificial rent and price hikes;

● Lower healthcare costs by breaking up monopolized markets, and keeping Pharmacy Benefit Managers from price-gouging patients;

● Lower transportation costs by fully funding transportation projects to reduce congestion, promote public transportation, and improve safety;

● Lower taxes for working families by increasing income tax returns, and shifting tax burdens back to the wealthiest;

● Lower utility bills by returning local tax dollars to communities in need of water infrastructure upgrades whose lack of the same are driving up utility rates.

Increasing Grocery Affordability

● Lower grocery costs by enforcing laws to protect locally-owned small businesses from being driven out of business by anti-competitive price discrimination;

● Outlaw surveillance pricing that rig prices using our personal data;

● Lower meat prices by increasing market transparency and protecting meatpacking workers by enforcing the Packers and Stockyards Act;

● Break up food monopolies that artificially inflate prices and limit choices;

● Invest in solutions that address food insecurity;

● Eliminate food deserts by lowering barriers to entry in grocery markets.

Increasing Housing Affordability

● Lower rents by banning the use of monopolistic algorithms to rig rent prices;

● Lower home prices by limiting ownership of single-family homes by Wall Street, private equity firms, hedge funds, and other financial institutions;

● Lower building costs by expanding access to credit for small builders to compete against Big Builders that are driving price inflation;

● Eliminate unfair mortgage underwriting;

● Require insurance companies to justify rates;

● Create new opportunities for home ownership for working Texans;

● Incentivize the creation of mixed-use developments and Transit-Oriented Development;

● Increasing affordable housing stock through zoning reforms and removing barriers that delay building permits for housing and improvements.

Texas Democrats believe:

● A growing economy should benefit all Texans;

● The people who work in a business are as important as those who invest in it;

● That every person should be paid a living wage;

● No person who works full-time should be paid a wage below the poverty level;

● That government policy should not favor corporations that seek offshore tax shelters, exploit workers, or pollute our environment.

Texas Democrats believe that our lives, homes, communities, and country are secured:

● By appropriately staffed & trained law enforcement & emergency personnel;

● By retirement and pension security;

● By encouraging job security where it is possible and providing appropriate assistance and retraining when it is not;

● By the preservation of our precious natural resources and quality of life;

● By compassionate policies that offer a safety net for those most vulnerable and in need;

● Family values are promoted through policies that value all our families

Every Texan has inalienable rights that even a majority may not take away:

● The right to vote;

● The right to fair and open participation and representation in the democratic

process;

● The right to quality public education;

● The right to affordable quality healthcare;

● The right to due process, unbiased and fair justice;

● The right to a clean and healthy planet;

Texas Democrats believe in equal rights:

● Equality under the law guaranteed in Section 3a of the Texas Bill of Rights;

● No state may deny any person equal protection of the laws or due process under the law as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Texas Democrats believe in equal opportunity for all Texans:

● To receive a quality public education, from early childhood through college;

● To have access to affordable health care;

● To find a good job with dignity;

● To buy or rent a good home in a safe community;

● To breathe clean air and drink clean water;

● To have our voices heard and not be drowned out by the power of unlimited money to influence or buy elections and legislation.

Read the entire platform here.