Chelsey Hockett

“As a mom with kids in public school, I am a proud supporter of high quality public education. Yet I have witnessed firsthand the consequences of our government's corrupt decision to defund our schools, whether through withholding money at the federal level or pushing voucher scams at the state level that drain money from our public schools and funnel it into private ones. We deserve better. I will fight for full federal investment in every public school in our congressional district.”

“I'm running because working families deserve real representation on the issues that affect their daily lives.”

“I'm not a career politician. I'm running for Congress because working families deserve someone in Washington who's actually living their reality.”

“I'm a mom who lives in East Texas who knows firsthand what it means to stretch a budget, navigate a broken healthcare system, and worry every day about the quality of education her kids are receiving as our public schools get defunded by voucher scams.”

“I support Medicare-for-All. The United States is the only wealthy country where medical bankruptcy is normal, and no one should lose their healthcare because they got sick, pregnant, or injured. I nearly had to pay a $100,000 bill in hospital fees from labor, an emergency c-section, and a NICU stay because the store that I was a General Manager at shut down 2 weeks after Covid-19 hit. Stable jobs are disappearing rapidly in the United States, and our health insurance cannot be tied to them. It traps people in unsafe and unstable work environments, punishes caregivers and small business owners AND workers, and leaves families one layoff or diagnosis away from disaster. Universal, publicly funded healthcare lowers costs, improves outcomes, strengthens worker freedom, and treats healthcare as the public good it should be instead of a commodity driven by profit.”

“Yes. I support a Green New Deal. Federal climate policy is economic justice, racial justice, public health, and infrastructure policy all at once. For generations, black and minority communities have been forced to live with unsafe drinking water (Sand Branch!), toxic chemical exposure, polluted air, and industrial facilities placed directly in their neighborhoods while wealthier communities are protected. In Texas, families are paying the price through grid failures, water insecurity, and infrastructure failures. Rural communities in East Texas are watching their aquifers being sold off to the highest bidder, billionaire land grabs, rivers used as dumping grounds, and the working families are left with higher energy bills, health risks, and fewer protections. We need large-scale public investment in clean energy, safe water, grid reliability, and climate-resilient infrastructure to strengthen local communities and create good union jobs. A real climate plan must center on environmental justice, public accountability, and public ownership of essential resources instead of privatization and corporate capture. Communities should not be sacrificed so polluters can extract profit. We need to repair harm, protect future generations, and deliver real stability and dignity for the people who have been carrying the cost of inaction the longest.”