Education
Called for changing public-education funding and ending formulas she said cost Austin families millions of dollars each year.
THE INTERNET REMEMBERS
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Gina Hinojosa:
Then & Now
A documented comparison of her public campaign messaging from her 2016 Texas House run through the 2026 governor campaign, alongside an official-record voting database as verification is completed.
COMPARE THE RECORDWAYBACK + SAVED CAMPAIGN SOURCES
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The saved Ballotpedia profile preserves Hinojosa's 2016 campaign themes and a January 14, 2026 quotation from her campaign website. The Wayback calendar confirms ginafortexas.com was archived beginning August 7, 2018. A saved August 2026 campaign homepage provides a current snapshot for comparison.
2016 Texas House campaign
EARLIER PLATFORM
Ballotpedia's saved profile attributes three explicit 2016 campaign themes to Hinojosa: education funding, campus carry, and reproductive rights. These entries are treated as a secondary-source preservation of earlier campaign messaging pending recovery of the original 2016 campaign page.
Campus Carry
Said public universities should have the same ability as private universities to opt out of campus carry and called for more mental-health funding.
Reproductive Rights
Opposed Republican restrictions on abortion and called for restoring funding to Planned Parenthood.
August 7, 2018 → August 14, 2026
WEBSITE CHANGES
Wayback inventory
The Wayback calendar says the homepage was saved 57 times between August 7, 2018 and August 14, 2026. A crawl date proves an archived capture exists; it does not by itself prove the site changed that day.
January → August 2026 presentation
A January 14 campaign-site quotation preserved by Ballotpedia emphasized healthcare, affordability and education. The saved August homepage's top-level priority links are Save Texas Public Schools, Money in Your Pocket and Data Centers. This documents a change in presentation, not by itself a policy reversal.
What this proves: A website change documents a change in presentation. It does not, by itself, prove a policy reversal or establish why the campaign made the change.
2024 Texas House campaign
2024 RECORD
The supplied Ballotpedia record has a 2024 campaign section, but Hinojosa did not complete Ballotpedia’s 2024 Candidate Connection survey. This project therefore does not invent issue positions for that cycle where the supplied sources do not establish them.
Candidate questionnaire
Ballotpedia reports no 2024 Candidate Connection response from Hinojosa. That is a documented absence of a response in this source, not evidence of a hidden position.
Evidence boundary
Election, campaign-finance, endorsement and legislative records can still be researched for 2024. Issue positions are labeled only when a dated source establishes them.
89th Legislature · 2025
2025 LEGISLATIVE RECORD
The official House record now anchors a first tranche of consequential 2025 votes. These entries are part of the curated key-vote database and are linked to the Texas House Journal.
SB 2 · Education Savings Accounts
Hinojosa voted No on final passage. House Record 300: 86-61-0.
HB 2 · Public School Finance
Hinojosa voted Yes on final passage. House Record 303: 142-5-0.
SB 10 · Ten Commandments Displays
Hinojosa voted No on final passage as amended. House Record 3503: 82-46-1.
SB 37 · Higher-Education Governance
Hinojosa voted No on adoption of the conference committee report. House Record 4104: 83-47-2.
Saved / reviewed August 15, 2026
2026 CAMPAIGN
The saved current homepage describes Hinojosa as running for governor to help families thrive and give children a brighter future. Its three visible top-level priority links are public schools, household finances and data centers.
Save Texas Public Schools
The current homepage lists “Save Texas Public Schools” as one of the campaign's three principal priority links.
LAST CHECKED: AUG. 15, 2026VIEW ORIGINAL SOURCE →
Money in Your Pocket
The homepage says its short agenda should “save Texas schools, put money in your pocket,” and address what it calls the “Greg Abbott Corruption Tax.”
LAST CHECKED: AUG. 15, 2026VIEW ORIGINAL SOURCE →
Data Centers
“Data Centers” is now a top-level priority link, and recent campaign press items on the saved homepage repeatedly address data-center policy.
LAST CHECKED: AUG. 15, 2026VIEW ORIGINAL SOURCE →
Healthcare
Ballotpedia preserved campaign-site language criticizing insurance, drug companies and private equity for putting profits over patients and increasing costs.
Affordability
The preserved campaign-site language tied rising costs for groceries, housing, utilities and insurance to corporate concentration and argued for more opportunity for small businesses and working Texans.
Back-to-Basics Education
The preserved campaign-site language opposed school privatization and vouchers, and called for investment in school safety and teacher pay.
CURATED FROM OFFICIAL TEXAS HOUSE RECORDS
KEY & CONTROVERSIAL VOTES
This is a curated research set, not every roll call. Votes are selected for statewide significance, public controversy, scorecard or research relevance, unusual vote status, or a direct relationship to documented campaign positions. VERIFIED entries cite an official Texas House record. Vote Smart leads remain clearly marked pending until that cross-check is complete.
CURATED, NOT COMPLETEThe database will expand in verification tranches toward a career-wide set of the most consequential votes from 2017 forward.
21RECORDS INDEXED
16OFFICIALLY VERIFIED
5PENDING VERIFICATION
1YES
18NO
2ABSENT / PRESENT-NOT-VOTING
HOUSE FLOOR VOTE (SECONDARY-SOURCE LEAD)PENDING OFFICIAL VERIFICATION
HB 18
Prohibits lawmakers from accepting campaign donations while absent from an ongoing legislative session
09/02/2025 · Passage
WHY INCLUDED: Vote Smart identified this as an individual 2025 floor-vote lead on a high-salience policy or ethics issue.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTE (SECONDARY-SOURCE LEAD)PENDING OFFICIAL VERIFICATION
SB 8
Limits the use of restrooms in certain public buildings based on sex
08/28/2025 · Passage With Amendment
WHY INCLUDED: Vote Smart identified this as an individual 2025 floor-vote lead on a high-salience policy or ethics issue.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTE (SECONDARY-SOURCE LEAD)PENDING OFFICIAL VERIFICATION
HB 7
Increases restrictions on abortion pills
08/28/2025 · Passage
WHY INCLUDED: Vote Smart identified this as an individual 2025 floor-vote lead on a high-salience policy or ethics issue.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTE (SECONDARY-SOURCE LEAD)PENDING OFFICIAL VERIFICATION
HB 7
Increases restrictions on abortion pills
08/28/2025 · Passage
WHY INCLUDED: Vote Smart identified this as an individual 2025 floor-vote lead on a high-salience policy or ethics issue.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTE (SECONDARY-SOURCE LEAD)PENDING OFFICIAL VERIFICATION
HB 25
Authorizes ivermectin to be sold over the counter
08/27/2025 · Passage
WHY INCLUDED: Vote Smart identified this as an individual 2025 floor-vote lead on a high-salience policy or ethics issue.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 37
Changes to governance at public institutions of higher education, including curriculum review, faculty governance, and governing-board authority.
05/31/2025 · Conference committee report · Record 4104
WHY INCLUDED: Major higher-education governance legislation affecting curriculum review and faculty governance.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 10
Required a display of the Ten Commandments in each public elementary and secondary school classroom.
05/25/2025 · Final passage as amended · Record 3503
WHY INCLUDED: High-profile public-school religious-display legislation.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 2
Established an education savings account program using state funds for eligible education expenses outside the public-school system.
04/17/2025 · Final passage · Record 300
WHY INCLUDED: Signature 2025 school-voucher/education-savings-account legislation and directly relevant to documented campaign messaging on public schools.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
HB 2
Major public-education and public-school-finance legislation.
04/17/2025 · Final passage · Record 303
WHY INCLUDED: Major school-finance legislation that provides a useful contrast with the same-day voucher vote on SB 2.
Yes
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 4
Created state immigration-related offenses and procedures involving unlawful entry or presence and removal or return to a foreign nation.
11/14/2023 · Final passage · Record 48
WHY INCLUDED: Major 2023 special-session immigration and border-enforcement legislation.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 17
Restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, programs, and related practices at public institutions of higher education.
05/22/2023 · Final passage · Record 1921
WHY INCLUDED: Major higher-education DEI legislation with statewide institutional impact.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 14
Restricted specified medical procedures and treatments for gender transition or gender dysphoria for minors, with related public-funding restrictions.
05/15/2023 · Final passage · Record 1688
WHY INCLUDED: Major statewide legislation concerning gender-transition treatment for minors.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
HB 900
Regulation, rating, and acquisition of library materials sold to or included in public-school libraries.
04/20/2023 · Final passage · Record 351
WHY INCLUDED: High-profile public-school library-content legislation.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
HB 2127
State preemption of certain municipal and county regulation in fields governed by state law.
04/19/2023 · Final passage · Record 305
WHY INCLUDED: Sweeping state-preemption/local-control legislation affecting municipal and county regulatory authority.
No
HOUSE FLOOR RECORDVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 1
Election administration and security legislation addressing voting procedures, election offenses, and related criminal penalties.
08/27/2021 · Final passage · Record 61
WHY INCLUDED: Major election-law package from the 2021 special session.
Absent
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
HB 3979
Changes to public-school social studies curriculum and required civic instruction and topics.
05/11/2021 · Final passage as amended · Record 982
WHY INCLUDED: Major public-school curriculum and civic-instruction legislation.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 8
Texas Heartbeat Act restricting abortion after detection of fetal cardiac activity and authorizing private civil enforcement.
05/06/2021 · Final passage · Record 784
WHY INCLUDED: One of the most consequential Texas abortion laws of the period.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
HB 1927
Permitless carry legislation allowing eligible adults to carry a handgun without obtaining a handgun license.
04/16/2021 · Final passage · Record 298
WHY INCLUDED: Major statewide firearms policy change commonly known as permitless or constitutional carry.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
HB 574
Changed the elements of the criminal offense of election fraud and increased criminal penalties.
04/16/2021 · Final passage · Record 305
WHY INCLUDED: Election-law and criminal-penalty legislation during a session dominated by election-policy disputes.
No
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
HB 16
Enforcement of rights and care requirements for a living child born after an abortion, including civil remedies, penalties, and a criminal offense.
04/17/2019 · Final passage · Record 493
WHY INCLUDED: High-salience abortion legislation; her recorded status was Present, not voting rather than Yes or No.
Present, not voting
HOUSE FLOOR VOTEVERIFIED · OFFICIAL RECORD
SB 4
Enforcement of state and federal immigration laws by certain local governmental entities and campus police, including related duties, penalties, and offenses.
04/27/2017 · Final passage · Record 496
WHY INCLUDED: Major statewide immigration/local-enforcement legislation with substantial public controversy.
No
Secondary research index
LEGISLATIVE SCORECARDS
The saved Ballotpedia profile lists Texas legislative scorecards from organizations across the political spectrum for sessions during Hinojosa's House service. They are research leads only. Any individual vote must be checked against the official Texas record before it appears above.
0SCORECARDS INDEXED
0YEARS WITH SCORECARDS
0OFFICIAL CROSS-CHECKS
Source hierarchy: Scorecards are secondary leads. Texas Legislature Online and certified House Journals control the individual vote shown in the Voting Record.
Then → archived → current
COMPARE
The comparison below distinguishes what is directly preserved in the supplied sources from what remains unverified. “Not listed on this homepage” means exactly that; it is not a claim that the candidate abandoned the position.
| Issue | 2016 | 2024 | 2025 LEGISLATIVE RECORD | JAN. 2026 | AUG. 2026 HOMEPAGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Public-school funding reform. | Ballotpedia reports no 2024 Candidate Connection response; no issue-specific education statement is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | Official 2025 record: No on school-voucher/ESA SB 2 (Record 300); Yes on public-school-finance HB 2 (Record 303). | Back-to-Basics Education; opposed vouchers; teacher pay and school safety. | Save Texas Public Schools is a top-level priority. |
| Healthcare | No supplied 2016 position in current source set. | No issue-specific healthcare position is established by the supplied 2024 Ballotpedia campaign section. | Vote Smart records a Nay on HB 25, described as authorizing ivermectin over the counter; pending official verification. | Quality and Accessible Healthcare for All Texans was a named priority. | Not listed among the three top-level homepage priority links in the supplied August capture. |
| Reproductive rights | Restore Planned Parenthood funding and oppose Republican restrictions. | No issue-specific reproductive-rights statement is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | Vote Smart records two Nay entries for HB 7 on abortion-pill restrictions; both remain pending official verification. | No position established by the supplied Jan. 14 priority excerpt. | Not listed among the three top-level homepage priority links in the supplied August capture. |
| LGBTQ / gender policy | No supplied 2016 position in current source set. | No issue-specific position is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | Vote Smart records a Nay on special-session SB 8 on restroom use; pending official verification. | No position established by the supplied Jan. 14 priority excerpt. | Not listed among the three top-level homepage priority links in the supplied August capture. |
| Religious issues | No supplied 2016 position in current source set. | No issue-specific religious-policy position is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | Official record: Hinojosa voted No on SB 10 requiring Ten Commandments displays in public-school classrooms (Record 3503). | No position established by the supplied Jan. 14 priority excerpt. | Not listed among the three top-level homepage priority links in the supplied August capture. |
| Government ethics | No supplied 2016 position in current source set. | No issue-specific government-ethics position is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | Vote Smart records a Nay on HB 18 concerning campaign donations while lawmakers are absent from an ongoing legislative session; pending official verification. | No position established by the supplied Jan. 14 priority excerpt. | Current homepage broadly frames the campaign around taking on corruption; that messaging is not the same thing as the HB 18 vote. |
| Affordability | No supplied 2016 position in current source set. | No issue-specific affordability position is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | No affordability-specific vote is claimed from the current curated 2025 set. | An Affordable Texas that Works for Everyone was a named priority. | Money in Your Pocket is a top-level homepage priority. |
| Data Centers | No supplied 2016 position in current source set. | No data-center position is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | No data-center vote is claimed from the current curated 2025 set. | Not among the three preserved Jan. 14 priority headings. | Data Centers is a top-level homepage priority. |
| Campus carry | Public universities should be able to opt out; more mental-health funding. | No issue-specific campus-carry statement is established by the supplied 2024 campaign section. | No campus-carry vote is claimed from the current curated 2025 set. | No position established by the supplied Jan. 14 priority excerpt. | Not listed among the three top-level homepage priority links in the supplied August capture. |
ISSUE TRAILS
Education
2016
Public-school funding reform.
2025
Official House record: No on SB 2 vouchers/ESAs; Yes on HB 2 public-school finance.
2026
Public schools remain a top-level governor-campaign priority.
Reproductive rights
2016
Opposed Republican abortion restrictions and called for restoring Planned Parenthood funding.
2025
HB 7 abortion-pill Vote Smart leads remain pending official verification.
How this project works
METHODOLOGY
This project compares public campaign materials with official legislative records. The goal is a traceable record readers can audit for themselves.
Archived campaign statements
Historical campaign claims are tied to dated archive captures when available. A Wayback calendar alone establishes capture availability, not the content of a page.
Current positions
Current campaign statements come from the saved campaign homepage and are labeled with the date checked.
Legislative votes
House floor and committee votes are labeled separately. Individual votes are not inferred from party, sponsorship, attendance, committee membership, or voice votes.
Website changes
If content disappears from a particular page, we say it was no longer displayed there. A change in presentation does not by itself establish motive or a policy reversal.
Secondary research
Ballotpedia and advocacy scorecards can identify statements and votes worth investigating, but official Texas records control the verified voting database.
CORRECTIONS
If an error is identified, it will be reviewed against the underlying primary source and corrected.
If an error is identified, it will be reviewed against the underlying primary source and corrected.
Source inventory
SOURCES
Gina Hinojosa for Texas GovernorCurrent campaign homepage saved August 15, 2026Internet Archive Wayback MachineCalendar confirms 57 homepage saves from August 7, 2018 through August 14, 2026Ballotpedia profileSecondary research source for 2016 campaign themes, Jan. 14, 2026 campaign-site quotation, sponsored-legislation leads and scorecard inventoryVote SmartSecondary source for individual voting-record leads; each record remains pending until official Texas verificationTexas House of RepresentativesOfficial member page, legislative links, committees and House recordsTexas Legislature OnlinePrimary source required for verified legislative entriesTexas House JournalsCertified House records used to confirm individual votes