A ~~no bullshit~~ non-partisan comparison of political candidates

Aggregate score

Abbott 3.9Hinojosa 5.4 H +1.5

Scoring · Interests by life stage

Interests of a 6-Year-Old Child

A six-year-old's interests are safety at school, well-funded public schools, healthcare when sick, non-deported parents, clean air and water, freedom from culture-war framing, and a livable climate. Abbott's voucher law, permitless carry, post-Uvalde rifle-age inaction, Operation Lone Star, Ten Commandments mandate, and SB 12 ban all cut against those interests; Hinojosa's opposing record on each, plus Medicaid expansion, aligns directly.

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Margin

H +5

Issue

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Well-funded neighborhood schools (voucher law)

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old depends on the neighborhood public school being well-resourced; Abbott's $1B SB 2 voucher law¹², which public-ed advocates argue defunds neighborhood schools, cuts against that, while Hinojosa's voucher opposition defends the neighborhood-school funding pool.¹

Permitless carry

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old's safety at school depends on fewer firearms in unstable circulation; Abbott's permitless-carry expansion⁷⁹ runs the wrong way, while Hinojosa's opposition to permitless carry sits with the safety lens.¹

Post-Uvalde rifle-purchase age

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

Uvalde made the rifle-purchase-age question a school-safety question for first-graders specifically; Abbott's refusal to raise the age⁸⁰ leaves the gap that produced Uvalde intact, while Hinojosa's support for raising the age narrows it.¹

Operation Lone Star and deportation risk to classmates' parents

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old's classroom community depends on classmates having their parents at home; Abbott's $3.62B+ Operation Lone Star posture and aggressive enforcement raise deportation risk for those families, while Hinojosa's defense of immigrant families protects the same classroom community.¹

Ten Commandments classroom mandate

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old shouldn't be conscripted into a particular religious tradition by the state; Abbott's Ten Commandments classroom mandate⁴⁴ imposes religious content on first-graders, while Hinojosa's opposition to the church-state package keeps the classroom religiously neutral.¹

SB 12 ban on LGBTQ student clubs

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old's friend groups and family structures should not be the target of state policy; Abbott's SB 12 ban on LGBTQ student clubs affects the family and friend groups around six-year-olds, while Hinojosa's opposition to SB 12 keeps those relationships out of state preemption.¹

Medicaid expansion and pediatric coverage

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old needs healthcare when sick; Abbott's Medicaid-expansion refusal leaves more low-income parents uninsured (which correlates with worse pediatric utilization), while Hinojosa's Medicaid-expansion priority closes that coverage gap for the family unit a six-year-old depends on.¹

Clean air and water / grid reliability

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old needs clean air and water and a working grid for the next 12+ years of school; Abbott's hands-off climate posture and grid-management record run against that long horizon, while Hinojosa's grid-reliability and water-priority framing fits it.¹

Livable climate future

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Abbott: Hurts · Hinojosa: Helps

A six-year-old's adulthood begins in the 2040s; Abbott's record favoring oil-and-gas extraction and minimizing climate-driven grid risk reduces that future's livability, while Hinojosa's climate-adaptation framing protects it.¹

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