website, Stapleton-Barrera expresses support for LGBTQ+ equality, boosts in teacher pay and the minimum wage, quality health care for all Texans (including reproductive health care), paid parental leave, immigrants’ rights, clean energy, and equal pay for equal work.Stapleton-Barrera has the backing of Equity PAC, which is the political action arm of Equality Texas, along with HRC PAC, environmental groups, and reproductive rights groups.
At 36, she would be Texas’s youngest state senator.District 27 is in southeastern Texas along the Gulf Coast and is largely Latinx and heavily Democratic.