Lone Star Left Endorses Marquette Greene-Scott For Congressional District 22
The path to flipping Texas’s 22nd District is a vote for serious governance.
I first met Marquette Greene-Scott in 2023. What struck me first was how grounded she was, how clearly she understood the mechanics of governance and the limits of power, and how little patience she had for performative politics.
At the time, she was already serving as Mayor Pro Tem in Iowa Colony, a fast-growing city inside Texas’s 22nd Congressional District. She was already doing the work. She talked about consensus the way people who’ve had to build it do, not the way Washington politicians talk about it after it’s already failed.
That mattered to me, especially in a district like TX22, where turnout, trust, and competence win elections. What stayed with me from that first meeting was her seriousness and the sense that she understood representation as a job.
I decided to endorse Marquette Greene-Scott after seeing how she governs, and after reading her answers to the questions that actually matter in this District.
On healthcare, wages, reproductive freedom, climate, policing, and corruption, her positions reflect the same seriousness I saw in our 2023 meeting.
That’s why Lone Star Left is endorsing Marquette Greene-Scott for Congress in Texas’s 22nd District.
Where does Marquette Greene-Scott stand on policy?
Below are the policy questions I asked (based on previous reader polls), along with her answers.
Q: Should Congress pass a federal $17/hour minimum wage, indexed to inflation?
Yes, it is time for Congress to pass a new federal minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has been $7.25/hour since 2009. We are in an affordability crisis. The cost of everything has surged, including housing, healthcare, education, childcare, and everyday goods. Increasing the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation is the first step in grappling with this affordability crisis.
Q: Do you support universal, publicly funded healthcare (i.e., Medicare for All or a similar single-payer system)?
Yes, I do. Healthcare is a human right and not a privilege. Universal healthcare ensures that every person can get the care they need to live a healthy life. Healthcare should not depend on employment or income. Universal healthcare reduces administrative waste, lowers drug prices, and prevents costly emergency care. When healthcare isn’t tied to employment, workers have more freedom to change jobs, start businesses, or retire without fear. Every other developed nation guarantees healthcare to its people with better outcomes and lower costs. America can do the same if we choose people over profits.
Q: Should Congress codify the right to abortion nationwide and repeal the Hyde Amendment?
Congress should definitely codify Roe vs. Wade. Abortion care is healthcare. We cannot leave issues as important as bodily autonomy to the whims of state legislatures. This is a national matter and should be legislated as such. Decisions about a woman’s reproductive rights should be left to her and her doctor.
Q: Should Congress ban corporate PAC money and implement public campaign financing?
Yes, Congress should ban corporate PAC money and implement public campaign financing. PACs should be required to disclose their members and the sources of their donations, if it doesn’t ban them. Also, Congress needs to pass a law that would eliminate the excessive amounts of money currently in politics, because the best people are not winning.
Q: Do you support a Green New Deal or similar large-scale federal climate action plan?
Yes. Climate action is an economic and public safety plan. Climate change is currently driving higher energy bills and extreme weather. Doing nothing is not an option. A strong federal climate action plan is about creating good jobs, lowering costs, and protecting our communities. Texas already leads the nation in wind power and energy innovation. A smart federal climate action plan builds on what Texas is doing while lowering costs for families and creating good-paying jobs.
I know what you’re thinking.
Can we flip this seat in November? And how do we do that?
The short answer is that this is not an easy seat. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying. In 2024, Troy Nehls beat Marquette Greene-Scott by more than twenty points. Cook still rates TX-22 as solid Republican, with a partisan lean that favors the GOP on paper.
But paper isn’t people. And 2026 is a completely different ballgame.
TX22 is one of the most diverse congressional districts in Texas. A majority of the voting-age population is non-Anglo, with large Hispanic, Black, and Asian communities, and one of the highest Asian VAP shares in the state. That diversity has been there for years. What hasn’t been there consistently is turnout, coalition discipline, or sustained investment.
That’s where the path exists.
Turnout is the entire ballgame. In 2022, fewer than half of registered voters showed up. In 2024, turnout jumped by more than sixteen points. Republicans count on that drop. Democrats cannot afford it. Flipping this seat means keeping presidential-year voters engaged in a midterm and expanding participation in precincts with demographically diverse populations that are chronically under-mobilized.
This is Fort Bend politics. That means running up margins with Black and Latino voters through real field operations and trusted messengers, not last-minute ad buys. It means stopping the bleed among Asian voters by doing actual language-competent, community-embedded outreach. And it means cutting Republican margins with college-educated suburban voters who are reachable on competence, costs, rights, and corruption.
The message here is costs, safety, and freedom. Wages that keep up with reality. Healthcare that doesn’t bankrupt families. Flooding, extreme weather, and grid reliability are issues people face every year. Texans have lost reproductive freedom and feel personally affected. And a government that isn’t openly owned by corporate PACs.
That’s also where Marquette Greene-Scott fits in this District.
TX22 is diverse, working, and growing. It deserves a representative who shows up, understands governing as a job, and isn’t owned. Someone focused on lowering costs, protecting bodily autonomy, keeping communities safe, and cleaning up a political system that has stopped working for regular people.
All signs suggest that in November, we’ll see a significant overperformance by Democrats, but seats like TX-22 don’t flip by magic. They flip because turnout gaps close, persuasion is targeted, and candidates meet voters where they are.
That’s the path. And that’s why Marquette Greene-Scott is the best fit for this District.
You can learn more about Marquette Greene-Scott on her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
If you’re in the TX22 area and able, consider volunteering.
And if you can spare it, consider donating.
We’re going to take Congress back, and we need representation like Marquette Greene-Scott to help bring America back out of the dark ages.
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Founder of Secular Houston here. Marquette has been one of our favorite endorsees for years now. She is a fierce advocate of church-state separation, and the mutual respect is PALPABLE! When I speak of being proud of our interfaith coalitions...she often comes to mind as I'm saying it. Everyone...let's do all that we can to help her win that seat!!
Just shared on bsky, Michelle. Thank you, & congrats to her on getting your endorsement!!!