Gandhi, Mahatma
1869–1948

Gandhi's satyagraha framework prizes nonviolent civil disobedience against unjust majorities, religious pluralism, and skepticism of industrial gigantism. Hinojosa's 2021 and 2025 quorum breaks — fleeing the state to deny the House a working majority on voting-rights and gerrymandering bills — are the closest legislative analogue to satyagraha in modern Texas politics, and her data-center critique of 'the richest men in the world' building industrial-scale facilities at residential ratepayers' expense fits Gandhi's anti-gigantism. Abbott's response — DPS arrest orders, quo warranto removal actions, bribery threats, and pro-data-center infrastructure deference — runs the other way. On nonviolence specifically, Abbott's permitless-carry signing and his post-Uvalde opposition to raising the long-gun purchase age sit far from the framework; Hinojosa's permitless-carry point of order and post-Uvalde gun-safety advocacy sit closer. Hinojosa is the substantially better fit.