Lone Star Left Endorses Gina Hinojosa For Texas Governor

The people versus the powerful starts here.

This is Lone Star Left’s first official endorsement of the 2026 election cycle. When Gina Hinojosa announced her candidacy for Texas governor this morning, I’ve perhaps never felt more immediate excitement about a statewide candidate. Not only is Hinojosa a fantastic candidate, but she has everything it’ll take to beat Greg Abbott, and I’m going to break down for you exactly why. But first, check out her campaign announcement video:

“No te dejes, fight back.”

Hinojosa credits her grandmother for those words, but they resonate with every mother who had to fight the system, every teacher who kept showing up, and every organizer who refused to quit.

I absolutely love how she’s rooting herself and her campaign in Brownsville and the Valley, and in the lived experiences of all the families who have been told for generations to wait their turn. This is a winning strategy. For the last several years, Democrats have allowed Republicans to dominate the RGV through fear, misinformation, and a conservative infrastructure that’s bought and paid for by private interests.

If Hinojosa can build her own grassroots network, one that isn’t dependent on the same consultants, donors, or county power brokers who’ve kept the region politically stagnant, she can reshape what’s possible in South Texas.

Gina Hinojosa says she’s fighting billionaires and corporations, and she’s naming the villain. Greg Abbott.

Abbott has governed for donors and developers, not for families who work two jobs to keep their kids insured and their schools open. Hinojosa is saying what most Texans already know, that the fight isn’t left versus right. It’s the people versus the powerful.

It’s the same approach that James Talarico is using in his Senate bid. And the thing that Talarico and Hinojosa have in common is that they both come from the Texas House, where they have watched, first hand, how Republicans have bent over backwards to appease the wealthy and billionaire class, while intentionally inflicting harm on working people.

Gina Hinojosa isn’t afraid to speak in plain moral terms. She isn’t tiptoeing around corruption. She’s telling us to fight back.

I’ve been following her career for several years, and this is who she is.

Watch the clip below. In it, Hinojosa calls out the voucher scam for precisely what it is, corruption dressed up as “school choice.” She walks through the bill line by line, pointing out how it opens the door for vendors to take anonymous gifts, how it lets the comptroller market the program, and how it fails to bar even those with criminal backgrounds. Then she translates all that legal jargon into something every Texan can understand.

This is who Gina Hinojosa is, the one in the room who’s done her homework, who can spot a scam before it hits the headlines, and who has no problem saying out loud what everyone else is too cautious to admit. Plain moral terms, clear stakes, no euphemisms. She’s fighting for Texans.

Her first interview on CBS Austin this morning sealed the deal for me.

She’s a woman who’s seen the rot from the inside and finally said enough. Hinojosa lays it out, the reason our schools are underfunded, our wages are low, and our hospitals keep closing is corruption. It’s Greg Abbott and the billionaire cronies he works for. Something we talk about on Lone Star Left, often.

You can feel the personal nature of her journey from the school board to the Texas House, not because she sought a title, but because she refused to let her son’s school shut down. That same energy, the “no te dejas, fight back” spirit, is all over this interview.

She calls out Abbott’s pay-to-play politics, slams his racist redistricting map for cheating, and defends Texans who’ve been scapegoated for political theater. When asked about immigration, she emphasizes dignity and humanity, noting that the Governor’s own contracts have created the very instability he blames others for.

And her closing line? “It’s time for change.”

This interview was honest, grounded, and unmistakably Texan. The kind of straight talk that shakes the dust off this state and makes you believe, for the first time in a long time, that we might actually have a governor who gives a damn.

THAT is why Lone Star Left is endorsing Gina Hinojosa to be Texas’ next Governor.

What about her priorities?

Her priorities tell you everything about who she’s fighting for and who she’s fighting against. Every one of them comes back to the same core truth. Texas has the money, but it’s just being stolen by the well-connected. Hinojosa wants those tax dollars working for Texans again, not private equity firms, not insurance giants, not Abbott’s billionaire donors. She’s calling out the corporate greed that’s driving up grocery bills, rent, and healthcare costs, and she’s naming the profiteers buying up doctors’ offices and jacking up prices just because they can. Her vision is simple. An affordable Texas where people can live, work, and raise their families without being robbed by the system.

You can learn more about Gina Hinojosa on her website.

Or you can donate to her here.

And make sure you follow her on all of her socials, Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok.

If you’ve been waiting for a candidate who fights for working Texans with both grit and heart, this is her.

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